1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 2, 8:15 PM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 915 PM EDT MON SEP 2 2002 UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE EVENING WORDING...OTHERWISE LEFT ZONES AS IS. VAN AUSDALL --------------------------PREVIOUS DISCUSSION---------------------- LOW PRES SE OF NYS WILL CONTINUE TO LOSE ITS GRIP ON SE ZONES. LOW CLDS WILL GRADUALLY CLEAR OUT LATER TNGT AS BEST MSTR PULLS EWD. NXT WX MAKER WILL BE A CDFNT WHICH WILL PASS THE RGN LATE TMRW AFTN/EVNG. SOME DIFFS IN THE TIMING WITH ETA SLOWEST BUT EITHER WAY EFFECTS ON THE FCST ARE RELATIVELY MINIMAL. NOT MUCH DYNAMICALLY WITH THE FNT BUT DECENT CONVERGENCE WITH A NARROW BAND OF PREFRONTAL MSTR/INSTAB. ATTM PLAN ON CHC POPS WRN ZONES DURING THE AFTN...MID/LATE AFTN OR TWDS EVNG ACRS ERN ZONES. MAXES GNRLY IN THE M/U80S TMRW AS 850 TEMPS RISE TO NEAR 18C. WILL TAPER OFF CHC POPS FROM ERLY EVNG ACRS NW ZONES TO ARND MDNGT SE. MDLS SHOW SOME LOW LVL MSTR WORKING SEWD BEHIND THE FNT ON WED SO SCT-BKN SC APPEARS LIKELY...PARTLY SUNNY/BREEZY AND COOLER SHUD COVER IT. XTNDD LOOKS QUIET WITH HIGH PRES BRINGING SOME FINE WEATHER TO CLOSE OUT THE WORK WEEK. PSBLY CHC FOR SOME -SHRA BY SUNDAY AS NXT FNT APRCHS. .BGM...NONE. BRADY
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:02 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck and killed three horses, a mare and her two fillies. The horses were in a field on Gunhouse Hill Road. Ten other horses and 13 cattle escaped injury in the same field. 900 customers lost power in Stamford from another lightning strike at about the same time.
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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