Thunderstorm Wind — Essex, New York

2008-06-10 · near Wilmington, Essex, New York

Event narrative

Trees downed by thunderstorms winds in Wilmington, including Route 86 and Springfield road. Motorcyclist hit fallen tree on road and died from his injuries.

Wider weather episode

A very energetic mid-atmospheric disturbance moved across the Great Lakes during the afternoon and evening of June 10th. This developed a surface low along a cold front, which moved across northern New York during the afternoon. These features moved across a very warm, humid and unstable airmass draped across New York that resulted in two rounds of widespread severe thunderstorms.

The first round moved across northern New York during the early afternoon hours and the second round occurred during the early evening.

In northern New York (Clinton, Essex, Franklin and St. Lawrence counties)...hundreds to thousands of trees were damaged, downed or uprooted which caused downed power lines, fires and structural damage to buildings and vehicles. Tens of thousands of customers lost power due to the storms, with some outages that lasted several days. Some communities affected included Potsdam, Parishville and Colton (St. Lawrence county), Moira, Malone and Vermontville (Franklin county), Peru, Plattsburgh and Ellenburg (Clinton county) as well as Wilmington, Westport and Jay (Essex county).

Several fallen trees resulted in injuries and one death resulted from a motorcyclist driving into a downed tree across the road in Wilmington (Essex county).

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 121834. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.