Scattered severe thunderstorms developed over northeast PA.
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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 episode as NWS BGM wrote it up.
Scattered severe thunderstorms developed over northeast PA.
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 Aug 7, 9:06 PM EST, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1006 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2007 .SYNOPSIS... THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT...BRINGING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD BACK INTO THE AREA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND REMAIN OVER THE NORTHEAST THROUGH THURSDAY, WITH GENERALLY FAIR WEATHER. HOWEVER, THERE WILL STILL BE THE CHANCE FOR A STRAY SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM. && .NEAR TERM /TONIGHT/... PRETTY COMPLEX FORECAST THIS EVENING WITH MCS REMNANTS MOVING THROUGH THE AREA AND NEW CONVECTION FIRING ALONG THE SOUTHWESTERN EDGE OF THIS DEPARTING COMPLEX. SO FAR...IT HAS BEEN PRETTY QUIET WITH RELATIVELY LIGHT RAINFALL AND ONLY A FEW LIGHTNING STRIKES. MODELS HAVE BEEN LOST IN REGARDS TO CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT... PAINTING OUR NORTHERN ZONES WITH INCHES OF RAINFALL THIS EVENING...WHERE LESS THAN A QUARTER INCH HAS FALLEN. IT APPEARS...HOWEVER...THAT THINGS WILL GET MORE INTERESTING AS THE NIGHT WEARS ON. STRONG 850 MOISTURE TRANSPORT ALONG A SOUTHWESTERLY 30-40KT LLEVEL JET IS HELPING TO FIRE/SUSTAIN NEW CONVECTION THAT LIES ALONG THE NY/PA BOARDER. FURTHER WEST...ALONG A LLEVEL BAROCLINIC ZONE...CONVECTION HAS FIRED OVER NORTHERN INDIANA/OHIO AND WILL WORK TOWARDS OUR AREA OVERNIGHT. SO...WE EXPECT THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO PERSIST OVER THE SOUTHERN 2/3RDS OF THE CWA OVERNIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL. WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED MOISTURE TRANSPORT...WEAK OVERRUNNING...PWATS OVER 2 INCHES...AND VERY DEEP WARM CLOUD DEPTHS...PRECIP EFFICIENCY WILL BE HIGH. IN ADDITION...MBE VECTORS RAPIDLY WEAKEN AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT WITH SLOW NET STORM MOTION THE RESULT. FEEL FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL IS ELEVATED SOUTH OF A PENN YAN TO CORTLAND TO COOPERSTOWN LINE. AREA AVERAGE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY BE ON THE ORDER OF 1.5 INCHES OVER NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...TAPERING TO ABOUT A THIRD OF AN INCH FROM KSYR NORTH. THE SEVERE THREAT LOOKS LESS. THERE HAVE BEEN STRONG/SEVERE STORMS OVER CENTRAL PA THIS EVENING...BUT THEIR MOTION SHOULD KEEP THEM SOUTH OF OUR CWA OVERNIGHT...AS EACH STRONG STORM HAS HAD A SOUTHERLY COMPONENT TO ITS MOTION...BUILDING SOUTH INTO THE DIRECTION OF THE LLEVEL JET.. CANT RULE OUT A SEVERE STORM OR TWO...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING STRONG WINDS...BUT THIS WOULD VERY LIKELY BE CONFINED JUST TO OUR NE PENNSYLVANIA ZONES. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... SOME LINGERING ACTIVITY PSBL ON WED MRNG ERN ZONES. K INDICES FALL OVER MOST OF THE AREA DURING THE LATE MRNG AND AFTN, SO WE ONLY WENT WITH SLGT CHC POPS THEN. AFTER THIS TIME, GFS/NAM DIVERGE IN THEIR SLNS, WITH THE GFS BRINGING IN ANOTHER POTNL MCS WED NGT. FOR NOW WE JUST PLAYED IT AS SLGT CHC POPS FOR TMRW NGT AND THU, WITH BLENDED MOS GUIDANCE FOR TEMPS. && .LONG TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... FOLLOWED 06Z GFS FOR LONG TERM PORTION OF FCST. BOTH 06Z GFS/12Z NAM BRING ANOTHER MCS THRU THUR NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING AS RING OF FIRE LOOKS TO BE ESTABLISHED OVER NERN U.S. HOWEVER...12Z GFS KEEPS THUR NIGHT MOSTLY DRY. HAVE GONE MOSTLY WITH HPC GUIDANCE WITH LO CHC POPS THUR NIGHT INTO FRIDAY TO ACCOUNT FOR ACTIVE PATTERN. BREAK IN THE ACTION EXPECTED THRU EARLY IN WEEK BEFORE ANOTHER ROUND MOVES IN MON NT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. DID NOT MAKE MANY CHGS DO TO SUBSTANTIAL UNCERTAINTY IN MODELS AT THIS POINT. && .AVIATION /02Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... FAIRLY WIDESPREAD SHOWERS ANTICIPATED OVERNIGHT...PRODUCING MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS AT TIMES. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE AREA OF SHOWERS...THE THREAT AT ANY INDIVIDUAL SITE APPEARS LOW ENOUGH TO PRECLUDE THEIR MENTION AT THIS JUNCTURE. MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS IN LOWER CLOUDS/FOG EARLY WEDNESDAY...SHOULD IMPROVE BACK TO VFR BY LATE MORNING. LIGHT SOUTHWEST SURFACE WINDS WILL BECOME WEST TO NORTHWEST AND INCREASE IN THE AFTERNOON TO 10-15 KT. ACTIVE PATTERN FOR THU-SUN AS ADDNL AREAS OF RAIN CUD IMPACT TERMINALS ANYTIME FROM WED NIGHT THRU FRIDAY MORNING. THIS WUD LIKELY BRING MVFR CONDS TO AREA. OTHERWISE...EARLY MORNING MVFR FOG POSSIBLE THRU THE OUTLOOK PERIOD. && .BGM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PA...NONE. NY...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...JMA NEAR TERM...JMA SHORT TERM... LONG TERM...PVB AVIATION...MLJ
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 923 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2007 NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043- 044-047-048-072-090130- 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- 923 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WILL OCCUR OVER NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA AND THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER... SUSQUEHANNA...AND WESTERN CATSKILL REGIONS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK WITH LIGHTER RAIN EXPECTED FURTHER NORTH. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD CAUSE SMALL STREAM FLASH FLOODING AND FLOODING OF URBAN...LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. AT THIS TIME...IT IS NOT ANTICIPATED THAT THE RAINFALL WILL BE HEAVY ENOUGH OVER A WIDESPREAD AREA TO CAUSE PROBLEMS ON OUR LARGER RIVERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING WITH ANOTHER THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED OVERNIGHT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING. ARNOTT
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1156 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2007 PAZ044-047-080500- LACKAWANNA PA-LUZERNE PA- 1156 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 1148 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HARVEYS LAKE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SWOYERSVILLE AT 1205 AM EDT... WYOMING AT 1210 AM EDT... YATESVILLE AT 1215 AM EDT... DUPONT AT 1220 AM EDT... SCRANTON AT 1225 AM EDT... DUNMORE AT 1230 AM EDT... HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. MSE
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:29 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds. There was damage to at least 4 houses including broken windows, siding and shingles torn off.|A parked car was flipped on the north side of Scranton.
Trees and wires were blown down. There were scattered power outages.
Trees were blown down in Kingston Township. Several power outages were reported across Luzerne County along with minor poor drainage flooding.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, August 2007
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: 58652, 58653, 58655.