1 thunderstorm 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 Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 26, 2:12 PM EST, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 312 PM EDT SUN AUG 26 2001 AT 3PM A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM SOUTHEAST ONTARIO INTO NW OHIO WITH CONVECTION FIRING ALONG/AHEAD OF IT. A LINE OF SHOWERS THAT MOVED THROUGH WRN NY EARLIER HAS DISSIPATED FOR THE MOST PART... ALTHOUGH RADAR SHOWS A WEAK SHOWER MOVING THROUGH NRN SENECA COUNTY. MODEL DATA INDICATES ONLY WEAK INSTABILITY OVERNIGHT...MAINLY OVER WRN ZONES...WITH CAPES OF 500 OR LESS. THIS LOOKS REASONABLE BASED ON THE WARM MID-LEVEL TEMPS...SO WILL ONLY MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF A TSTORM. WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS ACROSS NW AND CENTRAL ZONES TONIGHT AS THE FRONT/SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVE THROUGH. THE UPPER TROUGH WILL WILL BE WEAKENING WITH TIME...SO THE CHANCE POPS IN SE ZONES FROM PREVIOUS PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD. MONDAY..FRONT WILL BE THROUGH MOST OF THE AREA BY NOON...BUT WILL BE SLOWING DOWN AS THE FRONT BECOMES ALMOST ALIGNED WITH THE UPPER- LEVEL FLOW. WILL LEAVE CHC OF MORNING SHOWERS IN CENTRAL ZONES... AND IN SE ZONES ALL DAY. MONDAY NIGHT..SKIES WILL CLEAR OUT AS DRIER AIR WORKS IN. THE NEXT COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH WRN NY LATE...BUT PRECIP SHOULD REMAIN WEST OF OUR AREA. TUESDAY..A STRONGER COLD FRONT/UPPER-TROUGH WILL MOVE THROUGH...AND WILL GENERATE SCT SHOWERS AND TSTORMS. EXTENDED (TUE NIGHT-SUN)..COLD AIR MOVES IN BEHIND THE FRONT TUES NIGHT-WED. TEMPS WARM UP THU AND FRI AHEAD OF THE NEXT COLD FRONT WHICH SHOULD AFFECT OUR AREA FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. TEMPS LOOK TO BE CHILLY NEXT WEEKEND AS WE ENTER METEOROLOGICAL FALL. WORK ZONES OUT. ZONES BY 330 PM. .BGM...NONE. VAN AUSDALL
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:38 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Emergency management reported some wires down after a thunderstorm in Milo.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5263977.