Damaging Winds in New York, July 10, 2001

Name: Damaging Winds in New York, July 10, 2001
Start: 2001-07-10T21:25
End: 2001-07-10T23:48
Location: New York

July 10, 2001 · NWS BUF · 3 events in 2 counties and zones

Strong thunderstorms moved across parts of the Finger Lakes during the late evening hours. The storms downed trees and power lines in Chili and Canandaigua.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $33,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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.

Strong thunderstorms moved across parts of the Finger Lakes during the late evening hours. The storms downed trees and power lines in Chili and Canandaigua.

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 Jul 10, 7:51 PM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 7:51 PM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
851 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001

OUR REGION HAS GENERALLY ESCAPED ANY SIGNIFICANT CONVECTION TODAY AS
A BROAD W-NW FLOW OF DRIER AIR COMBINED WITH GENERALLY STABILIZING
EFFECT OF LAKES ERIE AND ONTARIO KEPT US JUST BELOW NECESSARY
PARAMETERS NEEDED TO INITIATE CONVECTION. SOME ISOLATED TSTORMS DID
FORM ALONG LAKE BREEZE BOUNDARIES FROM BUF EAST TO LIV AND ONT
COS...WITH OTHER STORMS GRAZING NRN JEFF AND LEWIS COS.

ACTIVITY PICKING UP ATTM ON THE SYNOPTIC SCALE AS MAIN SHORT WAVE
SWINGS ACROSS SRN ONTARIO THIS EVENING. STRONG STORM PASSED BY
TORONTO NOW OVER LK ONT AND SPEC MARINE WRNG JUST ISSUED FOR NIAG AND
ORL CO LAKESHORE. OTHER CLUSTER OF STORMS MOVING OUT OF SRN ONTARIO
INTO CNTRL LK ERIE WILL BEAR WATCHING NEXT FEW HOURS FOR OUR LK ERIE
NEARSHORE WATERS. 18Z MESOETA HAD GOOD HANDLE ON THE OMEGA FIELDS
ASSOC WITH THIS FEATURE.

THIS TROF WILL CROSS WRN NY OVERNIGHT WITH SCATTERED ACTIVITY
THROUGHOUT. WLL COVER WITH SCATD TSTMS IN OVERNIGHT PERIOD AND END
THEM LATE OVER WEST...BUT KEEP EM GOING ALL NIGHT ACROSS OUR ERN
ZONES. WLL DROP POPS TO 40 ALL ZONES AS THEY WILL BE SCATD...ALTHOUGH
KEEP 60 JEFF/LEWIS WITH MORE GENERAL ACTIVITY ONGOING.

REST OF FCST FINE FOR NOW.

HYDROWISE...VERY DRY IN WEST...OVERNIGHT RAIN WILL BE SPOTTY BUT
HEAVY IN SPOTS.

THATS IT FROM THE BUF THIS EVENING. WRKZONES SHORTLY. FINALS BY 930.
TAKE IT EASY.

.BUF...NONE.

MCLAUGHLIN

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:25 UTC.

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Event by event

3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Monroe

When: July 10, 9:25 PM EST
Where: Monroe County, Chili Center
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 43.100, -77.767

Thunderstorm Wind, Ontario

When: July 10, 10:05 PM EST
Where: Ontario County, Canandaigua
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Property damage: $8,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 42.883, -77.283

Thunderstorm Wind, Ontario

When: July 10, 11:48 PM EST
Where: Ontario County, Canandaigua
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Property damage: $15,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 42.883, -77.283

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

Every storm in New York in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in New York, July 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: 5258980, 5258981, 5258982.