Dust Devil, Northwest Suffolk
- When
- July 28, 1:30 PM EST
- Where
- Northwest Suffolk forecast zone
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 40.941, -72.685 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Dust Devil in New York, July 28, 2001
A dust devil was reported in Northport along Route 25A. About 30 people saw it as it passed over the King Kullen Shopping Center.
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
- None recorded
- 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 OKX wrote it up.
A dust devil was reported in Northport along Route 25A. About 30 people saw it as it passed over the King Kullen Shopping Center. High winds picked up and tossed shopping cart shelters and downed signs on the parking lot. Wind speeds were estimated at 60 mph.
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 New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 28, 9:15 AM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 9:15 AM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1015 AM EDT SAT JUL 28 2001 06Z ETA RUN EVEN FURTHER SOUTH WITH NEXT SHOT OF PRECIP SUN NIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY. 06Z AVN DOES BRING IN SOME MEASURABLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. COULD NOT ACCESS LOCAL MM5 DATA. AS FOR THIS AFTERNOON...VISIBLE SATELITE PICS SHOW SOME CIRRUS UPSTREAM WHICH IS HANDLED WELL BY FORECAST. LATEST SOUNDING AND ETA FORECAST SOUNDINGS SUGGEST FEW-SCT CU FOR THE AFTERNOON. LAMP NUMBERS IN LINE WITH MAX TEMP FORECAST. ALL QUIET ON THE MARINE. ATTM...DO NOT PLAN AN UPDATE TO ZONES OR RDF PRODUCTS. PW PREV DISC BELOW.......... MODELS IN GOOD AGRMNT WITH MAIN FEATURES ACRS NERN U.S. NEXT FEW DAYS. PCPN SHIELD WITH WAVE MOVG OUT OF OH VLY SUN AND OFF THE MID ATLC CST MON WL COME CLOSE ENUF TO FA TO WARRANT A CONTINUATION OF POP THREAT LT IN THE DY SUN INTO ERY MON. HWR...WL BACK OFF TO ONLY A SLGHT CHC LT IN THE DY SUN AND ONLY FOR SRN ZONES. WL THEN CONT WITH A MINIMAL CHC FOR SRN HALF OF ZONES SUN NGT INTO ERY MON WITH SLIGHT CHC NRN HALF THIS SAME TIME FRAME AS NEW RUNS ARE ALL SUPRESG SHIELD A BIT FURTHER TO THE S THRU THIS TIME FRAME. TEMPS...OUTPUT SIMILAR AND REASONABLE ALL MODELS EXCEPT FOR MAXS SUN. FOR THIS PD PREFER THE SLIGHTLY WARMER NGM MOS. MARINE...NO HEADLINES THRU THE WEEKEND. PRELIM TEMPS AND POPS FOLLOW... EWR 80 63 78 64 / 0 0 20 30 MGJ 77 56 77 55 / 0 0 10 20 DXR 77 56 77 55 / 0 0 10 20 NYC 79 64 78 65 / 0 0 20 30 ISP 75 60 74 61 / 0 0 20 30 GON 76 61 75 61 / 0 0 10 20 .OKX... CT...NONE. NJ...NONE. NY...NONE. MARINE...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dust Devil
- A small rotating column of dust from surface heating that caused damage or injury.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Nebraska, July 28 to 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, July 28 to 29, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, July 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 28, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 28, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, July 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, July 28, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 28, 2001
More
Every storm in New York in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5259357.