1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 17, 12:15 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 115 PM EDT WED OCT 17 2001 MDTLY STG GRAD SW-NE ACRS WRN QUE AND NY WWD TO CNTRL GRTLKS WITH BETTER THAN 15 MB DIFF KDKK-KPLB AT 16Z. PROGS SEEM TO AGREE THAT MSTR LIFTS OUT DURG THE NGT AS SFC LOW HEADS NE ACRS ERN QUE...BUT H5 LOBE OF PVA CROSSES DIST LT TNGT INTO THU MRNG. MEANWHILE...LK EFFECT CONTS AS HI PRES WORKS INTO SRN OH BY 12Z THU...THUS DCRG TREND TO CLD COVER COULD BE HESITATED. PREV PACKAGE THINKING OF UP TO 1 IN SNOW ACCUMULATION IN ADRNDCKS STILL DOES NOT LOOK BAD. SFC HIGH CONTS INTO VA WITH SLGTLY POSTIVELY TILTED RDG EXTENDING INTO HDSVLY BY 00Z FRI. BY 00Z SAT...NEXT CDFNT WORKS INTO CNTRL ST LAWRENCE VLY-ERN GRTLKS WITH UPR SUPPORT MOSTLY LIFTING OUT N OF THE ST LAWRENCE RIVER. CDFNT MOVS THRU DIST ON SAT...THEN LK EFFECT TAKES HOLD AGAIN AFT FROPA. AS CNDN LOWS TRACK NE...CONUS PAT TURNS MORE ZONAL FOR ERY NEXT WEEK. MCKINLEY/KDL .ALY...NY ERN/VT EXTRM SRN/MA EXTRM WRN/CT NW...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A steep pressure gradient, between deepening low pressure over southern Canada and high pressure in the Ohio Valley, produced strong enough wind gusts to bring down some trees and power lines in Torrington, Litchfield County during the afternoon of October 17.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Connecticut in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Connecticut, October 2001
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