Name: Damaging Wind in Maine, August 9, 2001
Start: 2001-08-09T22:30
End: 2001-08-09T22:30
Location: Maine

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 GYX wrote it up.

Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees in West Poland.

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 Gray, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 9, 7:40 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 7:40 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
840 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2001

SYNOPSIS...VERY WARM AND HUMID SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL REMAIN OVER THE
FORECAST AREA TONIGHT AND FRIDAY.  A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP
SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  THE FRONT
WILL BECOME STATIONARY OVER SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND SATURDAY.

ZONES...WILL UPDATE ZONES TO REMOVE MENTION OF HAIL...BUT WILL
CONTINUE MENTION OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS
OVERNIGHT.  AT THIS TIME THE THUNDERSTORM CLUSTER OVER EAST CENTRAL
NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT IS THE PRIMARY CONCERN.  THIS CLUSTER
HAS A LONG HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE ACROSS CENTRAL NEW
YORK.  CLUSTER IS TRACKING EAST AT 27 KTS AND LEADING EDGE WILL
CROSS THE BORDER INTO SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE AROUND 01Z.  INCREASED
POPS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEW HAMPSHIRE AND LOWERED POPS IN THE
NORTHERN ZONES OVERNIGHT TO REFLECT CURRENT TRENDS.  ALSO LOWERED
OVERNIGHT MINIMUM TEMPERATURES IN SOME LOCATIONS BASED ON DEW
POINTS.  PWMWRKZFP AVAILABLE FOR COORDINATION.

MARINE...SW WINDS COULD INCREASE TO MINIMAL SCA CRITERIA AHEAD OF
THE FRONT FRIDAY AFTERNOON.  PWMWRKCWF AVAILABLE FOR COORDINATION.

FCSTID = 7

.GYX...
ME...NONE.
NH...NONE.

WHEELER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:21 PM EST, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY, ME
1121 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0955 PM    HANOVER                   NH   WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01   GRAFTON                        TREE DOWN...REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT

1000 PM    ENDFIELD                  NH   WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01   GRAFTON                        TREES AND WIRES
                                          DOWN...ALSO UTILITY POLE
                                          DOWN ON DAM...REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT

1015 PM    THORNTON                  NH   WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01   GRAFTON                        TREES DOWN...REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:28 PM EST, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY, ME
1128 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1115 PM    BROWNFIELD                ME   WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01   OXFORD                         TREES DOWN...REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 21 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:30 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Androscoggin

When: August 9, 10:30 PM EST
Where: Androscoggin County, West Poland
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 44.033, -70.433

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.

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

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Maine in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Maine, 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: 5263367.