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 Aug 8, 1:50 PM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 250 PM EDT THU AUG 8 2002 .DISC...WK LOBE OF MSTR ROTATING ARND THE OFSHR LOW CAUSED SOME RELATIVELY THICK CU/SC AND ISOLD SHWRS LATE THIS MRNG AND EARLY THIS AFTN...BUT THIS LOBE ALREADY ALG SRN FRINGE OF FCST AREA AT THIS TIME AND SHOULD NOT CAUSE ANY FURTHER PROBLEMS. HIGH PRESSURE WILL FIRMLY TAKE HOLD TNGT AND CONT THRU SAT WITH MAINLY CLR SKIES. SOME AFTN/EVE CLOUDINESS EACH DAY...BUT NOT NEARLY AS MUCH AS THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS. GRADUAL WARMING TREND THRU THE WEEKEND WITH TEMPS APPROACHING 90 IN SOME PLACES BY SUNDAY. NEXT CHC OF SHWRS NOT UNTIL MONDAY. .HYDROLOGICAL STATUS...NO PRECIPITATION THE NEXT FEW DAYS. STREAMS AND RIVERS FLW WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE. NO HYDROLOGIC PROBLEMS EXPECTED. NEXT CHANCE OF PCPN WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK WITH APPROACHING FRONT. .ALY...NONE. MAGLARAS
The Albany radar (KENX), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:07 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A pocket of cold air aloft triggered isolated showers and storms across Litchfield County, late on the afternoon of August 8. One storm became briefly severe as thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires in the town of Canaan.
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