Thunderstorm Wind, Broome
- When
- November 4, 5:30 PM EST to 5:45 PM EST
- Where
- Broome County, Endicott
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.160, -75.820 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Damaging Wind in New York, November 4, 2001
Trees and wires down. Wind caused by isolated thunderstorms along a strong cold front.
Where it happened
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- 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 BGM wrote it up.
Trees and wires down. Wind caused by isolated thunderstorms along a strong cold front. Wind gusts to around 45 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 Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 4, 3:05 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 4, 3:05 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 305 PM EST SUN NOV 4 2001 VIGOROUS UPPER SHORTWAVE DIGGING TOWARDS WRN NY...WITH RAIN BREAKING OUT AHEAD OF IT. THIS AREA OF RAIN SHOULD CONTINUE TO EXPAND OVERNIGHT AS THE UPPER SYSTEM MOVES SOUTHEAST AND CLOSES OFF OVER ERN NY. MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES WILL BE STEEP OVERNIGHT...AND THE LINE OF STORMS DEVELOPING NEAR ROCHESTER IS EVIDENCE OF THIS INSTABILITY. WILL GO WITH LIKELY WORDING IN ALL ZONES...WITH HIGHER POPS IN ERN ZONES. WILL ALSO MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF TSTORMS THIS EVENING. CORE OF COLDEST AIR WILL MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL AND WRN NY OVERNIGHT INTO PENNSYLVANIA. 1000/850 THICKNESSES WILL FALL TO NEAR 1300M BY MORNING...SO WILL KEEP MENTION OF RAIN MIXING WITH SNOW. THE RAIN MAY CHANGEOVER TO SNOW ON THE HILLTOPS. NO ACCUMULATION EXPECTED. THE AVN CONTINUES TO DO BETTER WITH THE UPPER-TROUGH MOVING THROUGH THE ERN U.S., AS WELL AS HURRICANE MICHELLE, SO USED IT TO BASE TODAYS FORECAST. MONDAY..UPPER LOW MOVES OFF THE COAST OF SE NEW ENGLAND WITH ADDITIONAL SHORTWAVE ENERGY MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL NY. WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS FOR THE ERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE AREA...AND CHC POPS WEST. LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL BE 330-340 DEGS...AND 850MB TEMPS WILL BE COLD ENOUGH FOR LAKE EFFECT/ENHANCED PRECIP. BOUNDARY LAYER SHOULD WARM UP ENOUGH FOR VALLEYS TO HAVE RAIN/SNOW MIX...BUT HILLTOPS COULD SEE MOSTLY SNOW. DONT EXPECT ANY ACCUMULATION WITH WARM GROUND/BOUNDARY LAYER. WILL BE BREEZY WITH STRONG COLD ADVECTION AND 40KT 850MB WINDS. MONDAY NIGHT..HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN...AND LOW LEVEL FLOW GRADUALLY SHIFTS TO THE NORTHEAST...SO LAKE EFFECT PRECIP SHOULD BE CONFINED TO THE EVENING HOURS. IT SHOULD GRADUALLY CLEAR AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH LOWS RANGING FROM 25-35. TUESDAY..TEMPS WILL BE 5-10 DEGS WARMER THAN MONDAY AS UPPER LOW MOVES EAST AND HEIGHTS RISE. EXTENDED (TUE NIGHT-SUN)..FLOW BECOMES MORE ZONAL WITH THE NEXT CHANCE OF PRECIP NOT UNTIL THU NIGHT OR FRI. TEMPS WILL NOT VARY A WHOLE LOT DURING THE WEEK...AND SHOULD BE CLOSE TO SEASONAL NORMS. WORK ZONES OUT. ZONES BY 330 PM. .BGM...NONE. VAN AUSDALL
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 14 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:29 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
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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: 5273240.