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 Jun 11, 1:35 PM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 235 PM EDT MON JUN 11 2001 TELCO COORD KBGM .DISC... BACK EDGE OF MAIN PRECIP AREA WAS PUSHING EWRD INTO WRN NEW ENGLAND WITH AREA HANGING BACK OVR MOHAWK VALLEY AND ADIRONDACK REGN. WHILE MUCH OF THE CLEAR AREA OUT TO THE WEST HAS CLOSED...SMALL BREAKS HAVE OCCURRD FROM JUST WEST OF ALBANY INTO THE FINGER LAKES REGN. RADARS SHOW NUMRS SMALL CELLS EXTNDG ACRSS WRN NY EXTNDG SW OF SFC LO NR KROC. MUCH OF WHAT HAPPENS LATE THIS PM AND TONIGHT WILL DEPEND ON HOW MUCH THE SUN WILL BE ABLE TO GET THRU WITH ASSOCIATED HEATING. ANY SIGNIFICANT HEATING LIKELY TO KICK OFF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. LOOKG FOR CLDS TO CLEAR OUT LATER TONITE WITH WIDESPREAD FOG. THEN LOOK FOR INCRSG HEAT...HAZE...AND HUMIDITY AS THE WEEK GOES ON. WK SHORT WV ALONG WITH INCRSG INSTABILITY WILL LEAD TO CHANCE OF TSTMS WEDNESDAY. AFTER THAT...HAZY WRM AND HUMID INTO THE END OF THE WEEK. ON SAT APPROACHG CLDFNT BRINGS ABOUT ANOTHER CHC OF SHWRS/TSTMS...THEN PTLY CLDY BUT A BIT COOLER BEHIND THE COOL FRONT. ALY...NONE KILPATRICK
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP L 0413PM MON JUN 11 2001 #1 0000001 000 LXRV WLSR APTS 02268 FILE 28 SP RIVERHEAD NY1510100 JUN 11-01 TO ALL SUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE AGENCIES - NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTBOUND ST 27 WEST OF EXIT 63 BOTH EASTBOUND, AND ONE WESTBOUND LANE ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED DUE TO AUTO ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION (TWO CAR ROXLLOVER PI) UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE AUTH SGT MICHAEL C LEWIS FEBO 4-15PM OPER - FEBO,JOSE A 1612
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP L 0439PM MON JUN 11 2001 #1 0000001 000 LXRV WLSR APTS 02269 FILE 28 SP RIVERHEAD NY1510100 JUN 11-01 TO ALL SUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE AGENCIES - NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALL LANES REOPENED REFER TO TT#2268 E/B ST 27 AT EXIT 63 AUTH SGT MICHAEL C LEWIS FEBO 4-15PM OPER - FEBO,JOSE A 1612 OPER - DREW,KEVIN R 1638
The Albany radar (KENX), 96 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:28 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a home on Travis Point Way in the Pilot Knovb area of Fort Anne on June 11. The seasonal home was destroyed, as it burned to the ground. It took two and half hours and three fire companies to extinguish the fire.
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, June 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: 5252514.