1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 13, 12:30 PM EST, 5 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 130 PM EDT THU SEP 13 2001 SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH PASSING COLD FRONT NOW MAKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE BGM SERVICE AREA. MODELS AGREE ON SHARPENING 500MB TROF OVER THE AREA. THAT RESULTS IN AN INCREASE IN PRECIPITATION THREAT TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTHERN TIER. ETA IS A LITTLE WETTER THAN THE NGM. AFTER COORD WITH BUF...PLAN TO GO LIKELY POPS TONIGHT WITH A CHANCE ON FRIDAY MORNING FOR THE SOUTHERN TIER. WITH THE SURFACE FRONT CLEARING THE NORTHERN COUNTIES TODAY...WILL ONLY MENTION A CHANCE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING THERE. VORT MAX CROSSES THE AREA FRIDAY MORNING AND MOVES EAST OF THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON. STRONG UPWARD VERTICAL MOTION PULLS EAST OF THE AREA FRIDAY MORNING WITH GOOD SUBSIDENCE BEHIND THE DEPARTING VORT MAX. WILL INDICATE SOME CLEARING FRIDAY AFTN. THE UPPER LEVEL TROF AXIS IS OVER THE AREA FRIDAY WITH THE COOLEST HIGH TEMPS SO FAR THIS SEASON. .BGM...NONE. RJW
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:32 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Newspaper reports indicate a man was struck and killed by lightning in Spring Brook as he was cutting grass at a little league field during the onset of a thunderstorm.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Lackawanna | 2001-09-13 | 38 | Male | Ball Field | Direct |
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, September 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: 5262768.