1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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.
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 Aug 9, 1:05 PM EST, 8 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 205 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2001 SFC RDG CONTS ACRS APLCNS WITH DOWNSLOPE PERMITTING TEMP TO SLIDE UP TO 96F AT KPOU AND 95F AT SALT PT /DUTCHESS CO/. UPSTREAM SFC DWPNTS AS ELEVATED AS 80F AT KMDT. MDT PRES GRAD SETTING UP NR LK ERIE...THUS MAY NEED TO ADD A FEW DEG TO MOS MIN TEMPS. EVIDENCE OF LK BREEZE PER CELL SPROUTING IN OSWEGO CO NR KFZY. STG TEMP GRAD WITH CDFNT FM UPR MI-CNTRL KS. MODELS SHOW PRE-FNTL CONVECTION RCHG NW HLF OF DIST GENERALLY IN THE 04Z-12Z FRAME...THEN FNT CONTS INTO SE DIST DURG AFTN. WITH H2.5 DIV IN ASSOCN WITH 120 KT JET NR QUE/ONTARIO BDR ARND 06Z...IT SEEMS LOGICAL TO GO WITH THIS SCENERIO AND WL AGAIN HILITE SVR WX POTENTIAL...THEN AVN RUN SHOWS SOME SLOWING OF FNT ALG ERN SEABOARD FRI NGT...WHICH COULD PRODUCE EVNG CONVECTION IN EXTRM SE...THEN FNT TURNS QSTNRY INTO WEEKEND. MORE IN THE EXTENDED RANGE...REINFORCING CDFNT DROPS THRU MON. MCKINLEY/RCK .ALY...NY ERN/VT EXTRM SRN/MA EXTRM WRN/CT NW...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
813 PM EDT THU AUG 09 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0755 PM STILLWATER NY 75 MPH TSTM GUST
08/09/01 SARATOGA TREES DOWN. ALSO REPORTS
OF TREES DOWN IN MALTA AND
CLIFTON PARK.
0810 PM MELROSE NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 RENSSELAER TREES AND WIRES DOWNPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
827 PM EDT THU AUG 09 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0820 PM GREENWICH NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 WASHINGTON TREES AND WIRES DOWN.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
858 PM EDT THU AUG 09 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0839 PM BENNINGTON VT WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 BENNINGTON TREES DOWN
0845 PM ARLINGTON VT WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 BENNINGTON MULTIPLE REPORTS OF TREES
DOWN.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
916 PM EDT THU AUG 09 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 PM LAKE LUZERNE NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 WARREN POWER LINES DOWN
0739 PM LAKE GEORGE NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 WARREN POWER LINES DOWNPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1007 PM EDT THU AUG 09 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0550 PM RUSSIA NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 HERKIMER NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
POLES DOWN. ALSO TREES
AND POLES DOWN IN POLAND.
0600 PM NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 HERKIMER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORTS TREES AND WIRES
DOWN BETWEEN 6 AND 630 PM
IN OHIO, NEWPORT, NORWAY,
FAIRFIELD AND SALISBURY.
0600 PM NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 FULTON POLICE REPORT NUMEROUS
TREES AND WIRES DOWN
BETWEEN 6 AND 7 PM ACROSS
THE COUNTY.
0635 PM DOLGEVILLE NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 HERKIMER TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
0730 PM LAKE LUZERNE NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 WARREN POWER LINES DOWN
0735 PM SCHENECTADY NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 SCHENECTADY POLICE REPORT NUMEROUS
TREES AND WIRES DOWN.
SIDING RIPPED OFF
BUILDING.
0735 PM EDINBURG NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 SARATOGA TREES DOWN.
0739 PM LAKE GEORGE NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 WARREN POWER LINES DOWN
0755 PM STILLWATER NY 75 MPH TSTM GUST
08/09/01 SARATOGA TREES DOWN. ALSO REPORTS
OF TREES DOWN IN MALTA AND
CLIFTON PARK.
0810 PM MELROSE NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 RENSSELAER TREES AND WIRES DOWN
0820 PM GREENWICH NY WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 WASHINGTON TREES AND WIRES DOWN.
0839 PM BENNINGTON VT WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 BENNINGTON TREES DOWN
0845 PM ARLINGTON VT WIND DAMAGE
08/09/01 BENNINGTON MULTIPLE REPORTS OF TREES
DOWN.
NNNNNYZ043-VTZ013-100330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1043 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2001 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN BENNINGTON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES... AT 1043 PM EDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER COSSAYUNA...OR 4 MILES WEST OF SALEM...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH...AND HEAVY RAIN...WILL BE NEAR... RUPERT AT 1050 PM EDT... DORSET AND NORTH RUPERT AT 1055 PM EDT... EAST DORSET AT 1100 PM EDT... PERU AT 1110 PM EDT... OTHER LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE WEST SANDGATE... MANCHESTER CENTER...SHUSHAN AND EAST HEBRON
The Albany radar (KENX), 96 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:50 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning from a thunderstorm, struck a dormitory at Camp Hebron. The dormitory caught fire and was destroyed. No one was hurt since the building was vacant when the fire erupted.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New York in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, August 2001
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: 5264537.