1 hail, 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 Aug 5, 1:21 PM EST, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 221 PM EDT MON AUG 05 2002 .DISC...ANOTHER WARM AND HUMID DAY ACROSS CWA. DEWPTS IN THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S THIS AFTERNOON. MORNING SOUNDING GENERATING A SOME AMOUNT OF CAPE. SAT PIC SHOWING BOUNDARY/FRONT ACROSS CNTRL/SRN PORTION OF CWA. KENX SHOWING LINE TRYING TO BECOME MORE ORGANIZED ACROSS CENTRAL NEW YORK INTO NORTHERN PA. META GENERATING DECENT LI AND DECENT CAPE THIS AFTERNOON/TONIGHT ACROSS SRN NYS. WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF A TSRA IN THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT UNTIL MIDNIGHT ACROSS ALY AND POINTS SOUTH AND EASTWARD. DEWPTS WILL DROP THIS EVENING WITH CHANGE IN FLOW OUT OF NORTHWEST. THE BIG WX ISSUE AFTER TONIGHT WILL BE THE COOLER AIR WITH THE H500 TROUGH THAT DIGS INTO AREA. H500 SHOWING OMEGA BLOCK PATTERN WITH THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE COUNTRY WITH REALLY WARM TEMPS. AFTER TONIGHT...WE WILL SEE A BREAK FROM OUR SUMMER LIKE WX TO A MORE AUTUMN LIKE PATTERN. LONG TERM... WILL SEE MORE AUTUMN LIKE CONDITIONS HERE TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. COOL AIR FILTERS INTO CWA AS FLOW IS OUT OF NRN CANADA. WX LOOKS DRY IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION. WILL HAVE CHANCE OF SHOWERS TOWARDS THE LATTER PORTION OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD. .HYDROLOGICAL STATUS...CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA. PCPN SHOULD NOT BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE ANY MAJOR RIVER PROBLEMS. .ALY...NONE. VTK
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:17 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A weak upper air disturbance produced widely scattered thunderstorms across Litchfield County during the evening of August 26. One of the storms became briefly severe as it deposited dime size hail in the town of New Milford.
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