Hail, Lackawanna
- When
- September 9, 2:28 PM EST
- Where
- Lackawanna County, Scranton
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.417, -75.667
Hail in Pennsylvania, September 9, 2006
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 9, 9:45 AM EST, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 9:45 AM EST, 4 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1045 AM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006 .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT - SUNDAY/... UPDATE...ISSUED ZONE/GRID UPDATE TO FRESHEN WORDING AND UP POPS TO LIKELY ACROSS NRN CWA. REST OF FORECAST IN GOOD SHAPE. COVERAGE ACROSS NRN FINGER LAKES REGION ALREADY FAIRLY WIDESPREAD AND ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE BY MIDDAY AS FRONT DROPS SOUTH. CONVECTIVE PARAMETERS NOT REAL EXCITING BUT MID LEVEL WINDS FIELDS AND BULK SHEAR VALUES INDICATE A FEW SEVERE STORMS COULD DEVELOP WITH HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS POSSIBLE. RRM A LEADING SHORT WAVE IS MOVING THROUGH UPSTATE NY THIS MORNING. CONVECTION WITH IT IS DYING AS IT MOVES E. LITTLE WILL BE LEFT WHEN IT GETS TO CWA. PUT IN A SCHC POP FOR EARLY THIS MORNING. STRONG SFC COLD FRONT STILL IN SRN ONTARIO. THIS WILL MOVE S INTO CWA THIS MORNING AND INTO NE PA THIS AFTN. PRECIP WILL BE BEHIND FRONT WHERE BETTER MOISTURE IS. WEAK WIND FIELDS WITH NEARLY UNIDIRECTIONAL FLOW. PWATS JUST OVER 1 INCH. SFC DEWPTS NEAR 60 WITH SOME HEATING THIS MORNING AHEAD OF THE CLOUDS WILL SET OFF SOME SHOWERS AND TS. MOD LL INSTABILITY WITH INITIALLY DRY AIR ALOFT WILL LEAD TO SOME GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIP WILL HAVE A SLOW SOUTHWARD PUSH BUT TRAINING WILL BE LIKELY WITH CORFIDI VECTORS UNDER 10 KTS. LACK OF MOISTURE SHOULD LIMIT QPF. FLASH FLOODING NOT LIKELY WITH GUIDANCE OVER 2 INCHES IN 3 HRS. SAT NGT PRECIP WILL BE DYING WITH THE SHORT WAVE HEADING EAST AND DIURNAL HEATING GONE. HAVE A CHC OF JUST EVE SH AND TS. CLOUDS WILL BE SLOW TO CLEAR WITH THE LOWERING INVERSION AND SLOWING SOUTHERLY PROGRESS. WILL NOT ADD PATCHY FOG DESPITE THE WET GROUND. ON SUNDAY...LOW LEVEL NE FLOW COMBINED WITH DRY AIR ABOVE THIS LAYER WILL MEAN SKIES WILL BE CLEARING ESPECIALLY IN THE NE CWA WITH DOWNSLOPE. SFC HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE BUILDING SLOWLY SOUTH. CLOUDIEST AREAS WOULD BE NE PA. && .AVIATION (09/12Z TO 10/12Z)... FOG AT ELM WILL BURN OFF BY 14Z... OTHERWISE EXPECT MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS THRU TODAY. SCT THUNDERSTORMS WITH A COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING MAY BRING BRIEF LOCAL MVFR CONDITIONS TO A FEW SITES BETWEEN 18Z AND 02Z... BUT CONFIDENCE IS NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO INCLUDE AT ANY SPECIFIC TAF SITE. MVFR CIGS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP FOR SEVERAL HOURS BEHIND THE FRONT LATER TONIGHT. MSE && .LONG TERM /SUN NGT THROUGH FRI/... STRONG HIPRES BLDS INTO THE AREA SUN AND HOLDS THRU MIDWEEK. CANADIAN AIR QUITE CHILLY AND SOME UPPER 30S TEMPS SEEM LIKELY MON MRNG. CLSD H5 LOW DVLPS OVER THE OH VLY AND SLOWLY PUSHES EAST. MODEL TUN DIFRNCS AND TIMING...BUT TREND APPEARS TO BE TO SLOW SYSTEM DOWN AND HOLD OFF ON PCPN UNTIL WED. ONCE IN HERE...MAINLY LGT PCPN WILL LINGER INTO FRI BEFORE RDGG BUILDS BACK IN PLACE. TEMPS WILL GNRLY BE BLO AVG THRU THE PD WITH THE BIG HI...FLWD BY OVC CONDS AND RAIN. MORFORD && .BGM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .NY...NONE. .PA...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 9, 3:20 AM EST, 11 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 420 AM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006 NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043- 044-047-048-072-100830- NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN- SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND- CHENANGO-OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-BRADFORD- SUSQUEHANNA-NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE- SOUTHERN WAYNE- 420 AM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TODAY INTO THE EVENING. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM COULD HAVE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. RAIN SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY AMOUNTS OVER ONE INCH TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 9, 1:41 PM EST, 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
241 PM EDT SAT SEP 09 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0213 PM HAIL WALTON 42.17N 75.13W
09/09/2006 E0.75 INCH DELAWARE NY AMATEUR RADIO
DIME SIZED HAIL IN WALTON.
&&
MSESpecial weather statement, Sep 9, 1:50 PM EST, 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 250 PM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006 NYZ057-062-PAZ039-040-043-044-072-091945- DELAWARE NY-LACKAWANNA PA-SULLIVAN NY-SUSQUEHANNA PA-WAYNE PA-WYOMING PA- 250 PM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 247 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ROXBURY TO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROYAL TO LOVELTON... AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... MARGARETVILLE AND DUNRAVEN AT 300 PM EDT... TUNKHANNOCK AND COOKS FALLS AT 305 PM EDT... ROSCOE AND LEWBEACH AT 310 PM EDT... WILKES BARRE...CARBONDALE...AND NORTH BRANCH AT 325 PM EDT... LIBERTY AND SCRANTON AT 345 PM EDT... FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 1:54 PM EST, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 254 PM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006 PAZ043-092000- WYOMING PA- 254 PM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 252 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKE CAREY...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MILL CITY AND LAKE WINOLA AT 300 PM EDT... THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. MSE
Local storm report, Sep 9, 2:02 PM EST, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
302 PM EDT SAT SEP 09 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0115 PM HAIL COOPERSTOWN 42.70N 74.93W
09/09/2006 E0.75 INCH OTSEGO NY LAW ENFORCEMENT
GUSTY WINDS AND DIME SIZED HAIL.
0213 PM HAIL WALTON 42.17N 75.13W
09/09/2006 E0.75 INCH DELAWARE NY AMATEUR RADIO
DIME SIZED HAIL IN WALTON.
&&
MSESpecial weather statement, Sep 9, 2:20 PM EST, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 320 PM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006 NYZ025-092015- TOMPKINS NY- 320 PM EDT SAT SEP 9 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 317 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FREEVILLE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DRYDEN AT 325 PM EDT... THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. MSE
Local storm report, Sep 9, 2:24 PM EST, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
324 PM EDT SAT SEP 09 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0302 PM HAIL TUNKHANNOCK 41.54N 75.95W
09/09/2006 E0.75 INCH WYOMING PA PUBLIC
0302 PM HAIL TUNKHANNOCK 41.54N 75.95W
09/09/2006 E0.88 INCH WYOMING PA PUBLIC
&&
PBThe radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:26 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Arizona, September 9, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maine, September 9, 2006
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arizona, September 9, 2006
- Lightning Strikes in Maine, September 9, 2006
- Dense Fog in Virginia, September 9, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, September 9, 2006
- Frost and Freeze in Michigan, September 9, 2006
- Dense Fog in West Virginia, September 9, 2006
- Flood and Hail in Kansas, September 9, 2006
- Hail in Colorado, September 9, 2006
- Dense Fog in Maryland, September 9, 2006
- Hail in Vermont, September 9, 2006
More
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Sources
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: 5533855.