High Wind, Chautauqua
- When
- April 12, 5:00 PM EST
- Where
- Chautauqua forecast zone
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 42.303, -79.406 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in New York, April 12, 2001
Deep low pressure over Lake Superior moved northeast across Ontario and brought strong winds to western New York. In Chautauqua county, the winds downed power lines in Lakeside.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $100,000
- 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 BUF wrote it up.
Deep low pressure over Lake Superior moved northeast across Ontario and brought strong winds to western New York. In Chautauqua county, the winds downed power lines in Lakeside. A tractor trailer was overturned by the high winds on Route 394 in Harmony.
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 Buffalo, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 12, 2:19 PM EST, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 2:19 PM EST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
319 PM EDT THU APR 12 2001
HISTORY UPSTREAM SEEMS TO INDICATE WIND GUST 40 TO 50 KNOTS WITH
FRONTAL BOUNDARY. HAVE NOT SEEN ANY DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS YET BUT
WILL PUT THEM IN FOR EVENING. WRAP AROUND RAIN SHOWERS LATER TONIGHT.
GOOD VORT MAX MAY KICK OFF A SHOWER FRIDAY MORNING BEFORE DRIER AIR
MOVES IN. LOOKS GOOD RIGHT NOW FOR FRIDAY NIGHT BUT MAY BE COLD
ENOUGH ALOFT TO TOUCH OFF SPRINKLES OR FLURRIES EAST OF LAKE ONTARIO.
LITTLE CLIPPER SATURDAY MAY BRING A SHOWER TO REGION.
.BUF...FFW NYZ007>009 FOR BLACK RIVER BASIN AND TRIBUTARIES INTO
SUNDAY.
HIGH WIND WARNING NYZ001>003-006>008-010>012-019
WIND ADVISORY NYZ004-005-013-014-020-021
EGRThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Puerto Rico, April 12, 2001
- High Wind in Ohio, April 12, 2001
- High Wind in Michigan, April 12, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, April 12, 2001
- High Wind in Illinois, April 12, 2001
- High Wind in Indiana, April 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 12, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Michigan, April 12 to 18, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Utah, April 12, 2001
- Flooding in Ohio, April 12 to 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 12, 2001
- High Wind in Wisconsin, April 12, 2001
More
Every storm in New York in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, April 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: 5239391.