Heat in Connecticut, August 8 to 10, 2001

Name: Heat in Connecticut, August 8 to 10, 2001
Start: 2001-08-08T16:00
End: 2001-08-10T14:00
Location: Connecticut

August 8 to 10, 2001 · NWS OKX · 7 events in 7 counties and zones

A Bermuda high pressure system "pumped" hot temperatures and high humidities across the region. Daytime temperatures broke records in a few locations.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 7 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 7

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 OKX wrote it up.

A Bermuda high pressure system "pumped" hot temperatures and high humidities across the region. Daytime temperatures broke records in a few locations. Maximum temperatures ranged from the mid 90s to 100 degrees in urban areas, which produced heat indices from 105 to 110 degrees. Scattered power outages in urban areas began Tuesday, August 7th, and became more widespread by Friday, August 10th. Record high temperatures were broken at Sikorsky Airport in Bridgeport, when the temperature reached 94 degrees on Tuesday, August 7th, and 93 degrees on Wednesday, August 8th. On Thursday, August 9th, temperatures ranged from 94 at New Haven to 104 at Stamford. High heat indices of 105 to 110 degrees persisted into the early afternoon hours of Friday, August 10th, over inland and urban areas.

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 New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 1:50 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 1:50 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
250 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2001

.DISC...HOT...HAZY AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
THURSDAY ACROSS OUR AREA. LEANING TOWARDS THE AVN ALTO NOT TOO SURE
ABT FNT STALG OUT ACRS FA IN ITS LTR PDS. SHOWING SOME RELIEF FROM
THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY FOR THE COMING WEEKEND.

WL LKLY BE PUTTING UP AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING FOR ONLY THE METRO
AREAS THRU THU ON THIS ISSUANCE. TODAY THE HEAT INDEX MAY REACH THE
105 DEG OR GREATER LEVEL FOR ARND 3 HRS AND TMRW LOOKG FOR AN INDEX
CLOSE TO 115 IN THE CITY. AS SUCH BLV IT BEST TO GO WITH THE WARNG.
HEAT ADV ELSEWHERE WILL CONT INTO ERY THIS EVENING WITH THE MID CREW
ISSUG NEW ADVS FOR ELSEWHERE TMRW WITH HEAT INDEX GENERALLY 105 OR
LOWER.

WL KEEP THE MENTION OF SHWRS/TSTMS WITH THE UPR LVL SHRTWV SWEEPING
ACROSS OUR AREA LATE THIS EVENING. WL KEEP THE 20 POP.

MARINE...FAIRLY TRANQUIL CONDS NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...NO FLAGS.

.OKX...
CT...HEAT ADVISORY CONTS INTO ERY THIS EVE...CTZ005>008.
NJ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING THRU THU FOR NJZ005-006-011.
     HEAT ADVISORY CONTS INTO ERY THIS EVE...NJZ002>004.
NY...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING THRU THU FOR NYZ072>076.
     HEAT ADVISORY CONTS INTO ERY THIS EVE...NYZ067>071-077.

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

7 heat. Local standard time, as filed.

Heat, Northern Fairfield

When: August 8, 4:00 PM EST to August 10, 1:00 PM EST
Where: Northern Fairfield forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 41.285, -73.339 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heat, Northern New Haven

When: August 8, 4:00 PM EST to August 10, 1:00 PM EST
Where: Northern New Haven forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 41.443, -72.965 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heat, Northern Middlesex

When: August 8, 4:00 PM EST to August 10, 1:00 PM EST
Where: Northern Middlesex forecast zone
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 41.451, -72.508 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heat, Northern New London

When: August 8, 4:00 PM EST to August 10, 2:00 PM EST
Where: Northern New London forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 41.504, -72.101 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heat, Southern Fairfield

When: August 8, 4:00 PM EST to August 10, 1:00 PM EST
Where: Southern Fairfield forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 41.285, -73.339 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heat, Southern New Haven

When: August 8, 4:00 PM EST to August 10, 2:00 PM EST
Where: Southern New Haven forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 41.443, -72.965 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heat, Southern Middlesex

When: August 8, 4:00 PM EST to August 10, 2:00 PM EST
Where: Southern Middlesex forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 41.451, -72.508 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Heat: Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Connecticut in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Connecticut, August 2001

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: 5265066, 5265067, 5265068, 5265069, 5265070, 5265071, 5265072.