Severe thunderstorms produced high winds that downed many trees and power lines throughout Putnam County, about 5 miles northeast of Jamaica, Queens, in Tottenville on Staten Island, and in Bay Ridge in Brooklyn.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 episode as NWS OKX wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms produced high winds that downed many trees and power lines throughout Putnam County, about 5 miles northeast of Jamaica, Queens, in Tottenville on Staten Island, and in Bay Ridge in Brooklyn.
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 New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 28, 12:50 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 124 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006 ANZ330-335-338-CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-290600- LONG ISLAND SOUND EAST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- LONG ISLAND SOUND WEST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- NEW YORK HARBOR-NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN- NORTHERN MIDDLESEX-NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD- SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN-SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON- WESTERN PASSAIC-BERGEN-EASTERN PASSAIC-ESSEX-HUDSON-UNION-ORANGE- PUTNAM-ROCKLAND-NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER- NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX-RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)- KINGS (BROOKLYN)-QUEENS-NASSAU-NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 124 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 649 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT. PLEASE REFER TO THE WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR DETAILS. DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED. ANZ355-290600- SANDY HOOK NJ TO FIRE ISLAND INLET NY OUT 20 NM- 124 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 649 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT. PLEASE REFER TO THE WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR DETAILS. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS OVER 35 KT...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY REDUCED VISIBILITY IN HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED. ANZ350-353-290600- MORICHES INLET NY TO MONTAUK POINT NY OUT 20 NM- FIRE ISLAND INLET NY TO MORICHES INLET NY OUT 20 NM- 124 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006 ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR HAZARDOUS SEAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT SATURDAY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 649 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT. PLEASE REFER TO THE WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS OVER 35 KT...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY REDUCED VISIBILITY IN HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED. MPS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 1237 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006 CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-290000- NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-WESTERN PASSAIC-BERGEN- EASTERN PASSAIC-ESSEX-HUDSON-UNION-ORANGE-PUTNAM-ROCKLAND- NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)- BRONX-RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-KINGS (BROOKLYN)-QUEENS-NASSAU- NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 1237 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006 ...STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS THE TRI- STATE AREA IN A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE APPROACHING FROM THE WEST WILL LIKELY TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING IN THE VERY WARM...HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS IN PLACE OVER THE TRI- STATE AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG WITH URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ARRIVE IN THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY AND NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY DURING THE EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON...THEN MOVE INTO THE NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA DURING THE RUSH HOUR AND ACROSS LONG ISLAND AND EASTERN CONNECTICUT EARLY THIS EVENING. THOSE OUTDOORS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. PLEASE SEEK SHELTER AT THE FIRST SIGNS OF THREATENING WEATHER...OR IF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. REMEMBER THAT IF YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO A THUNDERSTORM TO HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE ALSO CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS WEATHER RADIO...OR VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/NYC FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND UPDATES. FOR LIGHTNING SAFETY TIPS...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LIGHTNING SAFETY WEB SITE AT WWW.LIGHTNINGSAFETY.NOAA.GOV
The Albany radar (KENX), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:12 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck 2 women that were playing golf near the Osiris Country Club in Montgomery, resulting in 1 death and 1 injury. The women were struck inside a shelter after running for cover.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Orange | 2006-07-28 | 55 | Female | Golfing | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New York in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, July 2006
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5525800, 5525801, 5525802, 5525803, 5525804.