1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 30, 1:15 PM EST, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 215 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2001 SCT CONVECTION RIGHT ABT ON CUE...MAINLY W OF HDSVLY AND A BKN LN K1V4-KSYR. ETA KEEPS SEVERAL HND CAPES OVR DIST DURG NGT...RCHG A CREST IN THE 1500-2000 J/KG BALLPARK WITH FROPA SUN. GEM/ETA/NGM/ AVN RUN ALL SEEM TO BE IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT ON PROGGED POSITION OF STG CDFNT SOMEWHERE INVOF KPSM-KHPN-KPHL COORIDOR AT 00Z MON. SHOULD YANK FNT THRU DIST RIGHT ARND TIME OF MAX HEATING. APPEARS UPR SUPPORT IS SUFFICIENTLY IN TRAIL SUCH THAT SOME CONVECTION MAY CONT INTO THE EVNG...HOWEVER POST-FNTL DRY INTRUSION APT TO LIMIT QPF IN NW FLOW ENVIRONMENT. THEREAFTER...NGM JUMPS SLGTLY AHEAD OF THE PACK BY 12Z MON ACRS NC...BUT BY THEN NO LONGER A FACTOR. BY 00Z TUE...SFC RDG POSITIONED ERN VA-LWR GRTLKS. BY WED...MID-LVL ASSUMES CYC CURVATURE AND REINFORCING SHOT OF COOL AIR /SHOULD THIS READ CLIPPER/ ARRIVES FOR WED NGT INTO SMALL HOURS OF THU WITH PCPN AT LEAST A COUPLE HND MILES IN ADVANCE. POLAR VORTEX AT H2.5 ROLLS INTO WRN QUE BY THU. MCKINLEY/GJM .ALY...NY ERN/VT EXTRM SRN/MA EXTRM WRN/CT NW...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
549 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0333 PM NORTH ADAMS MA .75 INCH HAIL
06/30/01 BERKSHIRE
0344 PM LANESBOROUGH MA WIND DAMAGE
06/30/01 BERKSHIRE TREES DOWN
0344 PM BRATTLEBORO VT WIND DAMAGE
06/30/01 WINDHAM LARGE TREE AND WIRES DOWN
0356 PM PITTSFIELD MA WIND DAMAGE
06/30/01 BERKSHIRE LARGE TREE DOWN
0356 PM LENOX MA WIND DAMAGE
06/30/01 BERKSHIRE TREES DOWN
0429 PM LEE MA .75 INCH HAIL
06/30/01 BERKSHIRE DIME SIZE HAIL
0438 PM WEST BECKET MA .88 INCH HAIL
06/30/01 BERKSHIRE NICKEL AND DIME SIZED HAILThe Albany radar (KENX), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:42 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A weak trough rippling through a very unstable air mass, touched off a round of thunderstorms in the Mid Hudson Valley on the afternoon of June 30. One of the storms became severe in Columbia County. Thunderstorm winds brought telephone poles, wires and large tree limbs down.
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
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