Heat — Western Dutchess, New York

2024-06-21 · Western Dutchess, New York

Wider weather episode

June 21, 2024 was the fourth day in the stretch of hot, humid conditions though, unlike its predecessors, only featured such conditions in the lower Mid-Hudson Valley. Heat index (or feels like temperatures) reached between 95 and 100 degrees across eastern Ulster and Dutchess Counties.

A lingering surface trough and weak cold front tracked southward through eastern New York on June 21. Warm, moist antecedent conditions aided in providing a fairly unstable environment and requisite values of several severe weather parameters working in tandem with the aforementioned forcing mechanisms drove scattered severe thunderstorms in the Capital District and Mid-Hudson Valley.

Severe thunderstorms resulted in numerous reports of downed trees and wires in Ulster, Saratoga, Rensselaer, and Dutchess Counties.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1188325. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.