1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 2, 1:55 PM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 255 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 .DISC...COLD FRONT MOVING SLOWLY SEWD ACROSS CWA...WITH LOW PRESS WAVE MOVING EWD ALONG IT WILL BRING ENHANCED PCPN TO MAINLY SRN SXNS FA INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. AMS STILL UNSTABLE ACROSS SRN AREAS SO WILL KEEP PSBLTY OF A TSTM INTO THIS EVNG...WHILE CLEARING SKIES WORK SE ACROSS WRN ADIRONDACKS ERLY TNT AS HIPRESS EXPANDS OVER GRTLKS RGN. LOWPRESS OFF COAST OF CAROLINAS WILL STAY FAR ENOUGH S & E OF CWA TO KEEP PCPN OUT OF MOST OF RGN. ONLY WILL LEAVE CHC POPS SERN SXNS DUE TO PROXIMITY OF OCEAN LOW. WILBE FAR ENOUGH OUT TO SEA BY SAT MORNING...AND GRTLKS HI PRESS RIDGE WILL CONT TO EXPAND EWD ACROSS ENTIRE CWA BRINGING A DRY WEEKEND. WARM FRONT LIFTING NORTH THRU RGN LATE MON/MON NGT...WITH PSBL SHWRS/RN...THEN FOLLOWED BY STRG COLD FRONT MOVING EAST FROM OH VLY ON TUES...CROSSING AREA LT TUES & TUES NGT MAY BRING NEXT ROUND OF CONVECTIVE PCPN. ALBWRKZFP SENT FOR COORD...WILL ISSUE ZONES AT 315 PM. .HYDRO STATUS...SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN SHWRS/TSTMS THIS AFTN WILL BRING SMALL STREAMS TO NEAR BANKFUL BY LATE THIS AFTN...BUT MAJOR RIVERS SHOULD ONLY SHOW SMALL RISES. AVGS OF DRAINAGE BASINS WILL REMAIN BELOW ALARM LEVELS. OTHER THAN LOCAL URBAN AND SMALL STREAM AREAS...NO FLOODING EXPECTED. DRY WEATHER MOVING INTO HSA FROM NW TO SE OVRNGT. .ALY...NONE. LAB
CTZ001-MAZ001-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-064>066-VTZ013-014- 030945- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 425 AM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NEW YORK AND ADJACENT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND. .DAY ONE...TODAY. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL KEEP SHOWERS ACROSS THE REGION TODAY INTO THIS EVENING. THERE WILL ALSO BE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE REGION TODAY. ANY THUNDERSTORMS TODAY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME STRONG OR SEVERE. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY. .DAYS TWO THOUGH SEVEN...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1203 PM EDT FRI MAY 02 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0356 PM OLD FORGE NY WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 HERKIMER WIRES DOWN ALONG ROUTE 28
0400 PM INLET NY WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 HAMILTON WIRES DOWN ALONG ROUTE 28
0415 PM RAQUETTE LAKE NY WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 HAMILTON ALSO BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE
TREE/LIMBS DOWN
0440 PM CHESTERTOWN NY WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 WARREN TREE DOWN ON CAR
0450 PM MOHAWK NY WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 HERKIMER ROOF DAMAGE - SHINGLES
BLOWN OFF
0505 PM NELLISTON NY WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 MONTGOMERY LINES DOWN,TELEPHONE POLE
SNAPPED IN HALF, ROADS
CLOSED
0505 PM CANAJOHARIE NY WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 MONTGOMERY LINES DOWN, PORTIONS OF
STATE ROUTE 5 CLOSED
0521 PM GLEN NY 57 MPH TSTM GUST
05/01/03 MONTGOMERY MEASURED WIND
0525 PM JOHNSTOWN NY WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 FULTON ROOFS OFF PORCH AND GARAGE
ON RTE 67 NEAR AIRPORT
0543 PM AMSTERDAM NY WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 MONTGOMERY GARAGE LEVELED AND A FENCE
DOWN ON BROOKSIDE DRIVE.
TREES ALSO DOWN.VTZ015-021815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 145 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WINDHAM COUNTY... AT 145 PM EDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF PUTNEY...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOWNSHEND...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN...WILL BE NEAR... WESTMINSTER AT 155 PM EDT...
MAZ001-021815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 151 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN BERKSHIRE AND WINDHAM COUNTIES... AT 151 PM EDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES EAST OF ADAMS...OR 5 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH ADAMS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN...WILL BE NEAR... WHITINGHAM AND JACKSONVILLE AT 215 PM EDT...
MAZ001-025-NYZ061-065-066-VTZ014-015-021830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 202 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN BERKSHIRE...WINDHAM...COLUMBIA AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES... AT 202 PM EDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES NORTH OF PUTNEY TO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FLORIDA TO 2 MILES EAST OF HOUSATONIC...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES EAST OF TOWNSHEND TO 5 MILES NORTH OF GREAT BARRINGTON TO 3 MILES EAST OF RHINEBECK 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH ADAMS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN...WILL BE NEAR... PUTNEY AND SOUTH EGREMONT AT 210 PM EDT... PINE PLAINS AT 215 PM EDT... BRATTLEBORO AND EAST WINDSOR AT 220 PM EDT... GUILFORD CENTER AND BECKET AT 225 PM EDT... SHEFFIELD AND MONTEREY AT 230 PM EDT...
The Albany radar (KENX), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:59 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
During the afternoon of May 2, thunderstorms formed along a slow moving cold front in southern Vermont. One of the storms became briefly severe. Wind gusts estimated to 60 mph blew trees down in the town of Brattleboro, Windham County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Vermont in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, May 2003
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: 5351815.