Name: Damaging Wind in Connecticut, August 31, 2001
Start: 2001-08-31T14:00
End: 2001-08-31T14:00
Location: Connecticut

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS BOX wrote it up.

An isolated severe thunderstorm downed about ten trees in Suffield.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 31, 1:42 PM EST, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 1:42 PM EST, 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
242 PM EDT FRI AUG 31 2001

UNSTBL AMS DUE TO HI MOISTURE AT LOW LVLS AND DAYTIME HEATING GIVING
RISE TO WDLY SCT SHOWRS AND A FEW TSTMS ACRS SNE THIS AFTN.  MUCH OF
THIS PRSTG IN A BAND EXTDG FM CNTRL MA SWWD ACRS NRN CT.  SINCE
THIS BAND HAS MOVD ONLY LTL QPF AMTS OF UP TO 1.5 INCHES APPR TO
HAVE FALLEN BASED ON RADAR ESTIMATES.  THESE SHWRS/TSTMS SHUD TEND
TO DSIPT WHEN SFC HEATING DCRSS BEFORE PCPN ASSOCD WITH APCHG CDFNT
ARRIVES.

STG S/WV AND WELL DEFINED CDFNT TO W WL MOV EWD ACRS THE FCST AREA
TNGT.  FAIRLY STG OMEGA INADVN OF FNT WL RESULT IN SHWRS AND TSTMS
TNGT.  THE AREA CURRENTLY MOVG INTO NWRN NY STATE AND LIKELY ACRS
SNE TILL AFT DARK WHICH DCRSS EFFECT OF DAYTIME HEATING.  BUT
KEEPING MENTION OF PSBL DAMAGING WND IN NWRN ZONES FOR THIS EVE
SINCE NEGATIVE LI WL CONT ALG WITH CAPES UP TO 1000 AND ACLRTG UPR
WND AS S/WV APCHS.  QPF .3 TO .5 INCH BUT LCL HVYR AMTS WL BE PSBL.
ENUF PPW AVBL FOR QPF 1 TO 2 INCH BUT BECAUSE OF RPD EWD MOVMT OF
THE SYSTEM DO NOT EXCP TSTMS/SHWRS TO PRST TOO LONG IN ANY ONE
PLACE.

FAIRLY STG NWLY FLO ALF UPSTRM SIDE OF S/WV AND FNT WL KEEP THINGS
MOVG RPDLY EWD AND COOLER SFC HI WL BLD INTO THE REGION FM W ON SAT.
SFC HI WL THEN BUILD IN ACRS NEW ENGLAND ON SUN.  BROAD UPSTRM UPR
RDG ACRS CNTRL U.S. WL THEN KEEP JTSTR AMD MAX UPR WND FLO
DEFLECTED FARTHER FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AND, IN ABSENCE OF ANY
S/W TROFS WITH SGNFT AMPLITUDE (WHICH MODELS DO NOT SHOW), SNE WL
STAY IN WK UPR WNWLY FLO ALF WITH ANTYCYCLONIC CRCLN AT LOW LVLS THRU
MOST OF NEXT WEEK AND DO NOT EXPC ANY SGFNT WX.

.BOX...SCA MVY SOUND, ACK SOUND, BUZ BAY, CAPE COD BAY, MERR.-PYM,
       PVC-ACK, BOS HARBOR, NARR BAY.

DMH

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:01 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Hartford

When: August 31, 2:00 PM EST
Where: Hartford County, Suffield
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 41.983, -72.650

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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The same day elsewhere

More

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5264688.