Multiple cases of trees, wires, and telephone poles down due to wind gusts of 40 to 45 mph. The wind gusts were with isolated embedded thunderstorms with heavy rain along a strong cold front.
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The episode as NWS BGM wrote it up.
Multiple cases of trees, wires, and telephone poles down due to wind gusts of 40 to 45 mph. The wind gusts were with isolated embedded thunderstorms with heavy rain along a strong cold front. The thunderstorms were moving at around 40 mph.
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 25, 2:00 PM EST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 200 PM EST SUN NOV 25 2001 SHWRS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FNT MVG STEADILY ACROSS THE FCST AREA. BACK EDGE OF THE MAIN BODY OF SHWRS NOW JUST ENTERING THE XTRM WRN ZONES. STILL...A FEW SHWRS LINGERING FURTHER BACK. SO...WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF AN EVE SHWR...EVEN IN THE WEST. MUCH DRIER AIR MVES IN LTR TNGT AND MON AS A WEAK SFC HI AND UPPER RDGG POPS BACK INTO PLACE. THERE/LL STILL PLENTY OF LO LVL MOISTURE ARND...SO WITH LGT WINDS AND LOW SUN ANGLE...IT MAY TAKE AWHILE FOR MRNG CLDS AND ANY FOG TO BURN OFF. NEXT WEAK SYSTEM APRCHS FOR TUE AND SETS THE STAGE FOR WHAT LOOKS TO BE A MAJOR EVENT LTR IN THE WEEK. SHRT WV FLATTENS THE RDG IN THE EAST AND OPENS THE DOOR FOR A SWLY FLOW OF MOISTURE. THIS INITIAL WV ON TUE WILL PROBABLY TRIGGER SCT SHWRS...MAINLY LGT...AND SETUP A WEAK SFC BNDRY FROM SRN PA TO THE GULF. AVN AND MRF DVLP A STRONG SFC LOW AND MVE IT NEWRD FOR THU AND FRI. PSN OF THE STRONG...NEG TILT H5 TROF IS DEPENDENT ON THE ENERGY MVG INTO THE WEST CST AND IS HIGHLY UNCERTAIN ATTM. LATEST RUNS KEEP THE FCST AREA QUITE WRM AND EASILY IN AN ALL RAIN EVENT. THIS SEEMS RSNBL BUT WILL HAVE TO WATCH EACH RUN CLOSELY. 12Z AVN 120HR PSN DOES NOT LOOK QUITE RGT...WLD LIKELY BE EVEN FURTHER WEST GIVEN UPPER PTRN. PLENTY OF COLD AIR AVBL IF WRN RDG HOLDS FAST ALLOWING ERN TROF TO DIG FURTHER EAST. .BGM...NONE. MORFORD
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:59 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Tree fell over a power line at Birch Lane. 23 electric customers were without service.
Heavy rain caused street flooding at the intersection of Madison and Hollenbeck Streets; and Blackman and Anthracite Streets. The heavy rain also caused street flooding along portions of South and West River Streets.
Tree fell over a utility wire on Bear Creek Boulevard. 10 customers lost power.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, November 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: 5273243, 5273315, 5273316.