1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jul 10, 10:00 AM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1100 AM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001 UPDATED ZONES AVAILABLE SHORTLY. .DISC...ALL FAIRLY QUIET ALONG THE WESTERN FRONT FOR NOW. COLD FRONT...JUST ABOUT TO MAKE THE CROSSING FROM CAN INTO WRN NY...IS MOVING ABOUT 30 MPH...A TAD FASTER THAN PREVIOUSLY FORECASTED. PREFRONTAL TROUGH...IS OUT WELL AHEAD THE MAIN...ALREADY TO OUR EAST. NOT EVEN MUCH IN THE CU FORMING YET...BUT ONCE THE CAP IS BROKEN...STORMS SHOULD BLOSSOM SOMEWHAT...POSSIBLY EVEN FORMING A LINE OR TWO. RECALCULATED MAGLENTA EQUATION STILL INDICATES A MINOR SVR EVENT (WITH A VALUE AROUND 3.2). HOWEVER CAPES OFF THE MODEL SOUNDINGS FORECAST TO RISE TO AS HIGH AS 1500 J/KG. SPEED DIFFERENTIAL SHEAR EVIDENT AND ALY RAOB ALREADY SHOWS 50 KT FLAG TO ABT THE H5 LVL...WHILE KBUF RAOB HAS 50 KT TO NEARLY H6. THEIR RAOB INDICATES VERY STRONG WINDS ALOFT...CLOSE TO 80 KTS AT H2.5. ACCORDING TO THE 12Z MESO-ETA JET MAX AT THE SAME LEVEL OVER MI IS FORECAST TO MOVE SOUTH. WE PLAN TO STAY THE COURSE REGARDING THE OVERALL FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL UPDATE THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK. WILL ISSUE AN UPDATE FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS... 1) TO REMOVE ANY MENTION OF EARLY FOG. 2) TO TWEAK TEMPS UPWARD IN A FEW SPOTS. 3) TO REGROUP ZONES (DID NOT LIKE THE ORIGINAL CONFIGURATION). 4) TO REDEFINE THUNDERSTORM DESRCIPTION...BUT KEEP POPS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AS BEFORE. .ALY...NY ERN/VT EXTRM SRN/MA EXTRM WRN/CT NW...NONE.
CTZ001-MAZ001-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ013-014- 112000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 910 AM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON IN EASTERN NEW YORK AND NEARBY NEW ENGLAND... A DISTURBANCE PRODUCED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN NEW YORK AND ADJACENT NEW ENGLAND THIS MORNING. ANOTHER DISTURBANCE...MAY PRODUCE MORE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THE AIR ALOFT WILL BECOME ESPECIALLY COOL...WHICH WILL INCREASE THE THREAT OF HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. WHILE MOST HAIL WITH ANY STORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE SMALL...RANGING FROM PEA-SIZE OR LESS...THERE IS THE OUTSIDE POSSIBILITY THAT SOME OF THE HAIL MAY BE A LITTLE LARGER. IN ADDITION...THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON...SEEK SHELTER AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. HWJIV
CTZ001-MAZ001-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ013-014- 102000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1140 AM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON IN EASTERN NEW YORK AND NEARBY NEW ENGLAND... A COLD FRONT WORKING ACROSS WESTERN NEW YORK WILL LIKELY SPAWN THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW ENGLAND. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO LOCALLY SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL AS WELL AS STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THERE IS ALSO THE THREAT OF DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP...WILL MOVE FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. A THUNDERSTORM IS DEFINED AS SEVERE WHEN IT CONTAINS WIND GUSTS THAT REACH OR EXCEED 58 MILES AN HOUR...OR IF IT HAS HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH...OR MORE...IN DIAMETER. IF YOU SEE THREATENIvNG WEATHER...SEEK SHELTER AT ONCE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...FOR FURTHER UPDATES....INCLUDING POSSIBLE WATCHES OR WARNINGS. HWJIV
The Albany radar (KENX), 26 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:53 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning from a thunderstorm struck a male farmer in Duanesburg. He was thrown to the ground, but never lost conciousness and only suffered minor injuries. A tree was struck nearby, caught fire and was destroyed.
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, July 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: 5257953.