1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 3, 1:25 PM EST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED WARNING SECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 225 PM EDT TUE SEP 3 2002 ALL OF THE ACTIVE WX WILL BE OCCURING WITHIN THE 1ST PD AS CDFNT PASSES THE RGN TNGT. HIGH PRES BUILDS IN WITH GNRLY CLEAR/DRY CONDITIONS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK WEEK. NGM AND AVN SHOW AN ORGANIZED BAND OF FNTL CONVERGENCE MOVG THRU LATE TDA AND THIS EVNG WHILE ETA MUCH LESS ORGANIZED. STILL SOME QUESTION ON HOW THIS ALL WILL PAN OUT. AT ANY RATE BEST INSTAB WILL BE OVER WRN ZONES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTN WHERE WATCH IS CRNTLY IN EFFECT. AS CONVECTION TRIES TO MOV EWD THIS EVNG IT WILL LOSE THE ADDED INSTABILTY DERIVED FROM DAYTIME HEATING...BUT STILL CANT RULE OUT AN ISOLD STRONG STORM EARLY IN THE EVNG. WILL CONTINUE WITH SCT TERMINOLOGY FOR THIS EVNG FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE RGN. MOSTLY SUNNY TMRW...PARTLY SUNNY NRN ZONES AS SOME 850 MSTR SWEEPS BY. MAINLY CLEAR/MOSTLY SUNNY WED NGT/THU WITH FAIR WX LIKELY CONTINUING INTO THE WEEKEND...PSBLY A -SHRA IF THE FNT SAGS SWD INTO THE RGN LATER SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. .BGM...SEVERE TSTM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF THE FINGER LAKES AND CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER OF NEW YORK UNTIL 600 PM (NYZ022-015>018) BRADY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a house on Main Street in the town of Taberg. The damage was confined to the area of the strike. No fire was started. No one was injured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New York in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, September 2002
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