Power Outage in Gloversville, NY

A tree was downed, resulting in a power outage.

Numerous trees and power poles were knocked over as a result of thunderstorm winds at Peck Lake.

A 100 foot maple tree was down and leaning on power lines approximately 1 mile south southwest of Caroga Lake due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Trees were blown down and power lines were knocked down county-wide.

Numerous trees and power lines down. Roof blown off house on Bleeker Street.

Numerous trees and power lines down.

A strong cold front moved through Fulton county on the evening of April 8. Gusty winds associated with the frontal passage were powerful enough to trigger isolated damage. In the town of Broadalbin, a barn containing cattle was blown over. Scattered large limbs and trees blew down as well.

Isolated thunderstorms developed in the Mohawk Valley during the afternoon of the 5th in a hot and humid airmass. Though these storms were mainly below severe limits, one storm produced several reports of wind damage in Broadalbin. It was reported that 380 residences lost power due to the storm.

A strong upper level disturbance and surface cold front was located over the Great Lakes during the day on Monday, June 20th. With a warm and humid air mass in place, thunderstorms developed during the evening hours ahead of the storm system over Lake Ontario and southern Canada and moved towards the region for the late evening hours into the early morning hours on Tuesday, June 21st. Despite being the overnight hours, these thunderstorms were able to maintain themselves due to very strong winds aloft. ||Thunderstorms produced damage to trees and power lines across parts of the Adirondacks, Mohawk Valley and Sacandaga Region before heading eastward towards New England for the late night hours. As a result of the thunderstorms, over 6,000 people lost power in Fulton and Hamilton Counties. Numerous power outages were also reported in Saratoga, Albany and Schoharie Counties as well. ||The threat for thunderstorms ended around daybreak when the cold front moved across the region from west to east.

Ample low level moisture was in place across the region ahead of a slow moving frontal boundary. Although skies were cloudy to start the day, breaks in the clouds towards the noon hour allowed for some instability to develop. With the large amount of moisture in place and an unstable atmosphere, slow moving thunderstorms formed. Some of these thunderstorms contained gusty winds, which caused damage to trees and power lines.||As thunderstorms with heavy rainfall moved over the same areas repeatedly, flash flooding occurred across portions of Columbia County. Some areas received over four inches of rain, with the highest amount being 4.95 inches in Chatham.||Thunderstorm activity waned by evening due to the frontal boundary crossing the region.

A tropical air mass remained in place over eastern New York on August 3. With a strong disturbance over the Great Lakes adding weak lift to a very unstable atmosphere, scattered slow moving showers and thunderstorms erupted during the afternoon hours. Heavy rains in Fulton County produced Doppler radar estimated rainfall of 3 to 4 inches, which took place in about three hours time. As a result of this excessivly heavy rain, roads were washed out in Londonderry. In Perth, County Highway 126 was reported under four feet of water. The force of the raging water knocked some trees down, which then knocked a couple of wires down. In the town of Johnstown, Grand Street, Crescendo Road and County Highway Route 29 were all completely flooded. Broad street in the town of Broadablin was flooded. Water in up to 75 basements had to be pumped out, in some cases, up to 6 feet of water. The storms knocked out power to as many 1,000 customers.

A fast moving area of low pressure moved from the Mississippi Valley, east to off the Delmarva pennisula late November 5th. This storm then rapidly intensified as it moved off the Cape Cod coast on November 6. With enough cold air in place, this storm spread another round of unseasonably early snow across the Capital District and points northward. While snowfall amounts did not reach winter storm thresholds anywhere in eastern New York, the weight of a very wet snow on trees retaining their leaves unusually late into the fall season resulted in many downed limbs trees and power lines throughout the Lake George Saratoga region, as well as the northern portions of the Mohawk Valley. Snowfall amounts were generally in the 2-6 inch range from a Gloversville-Saratoga Springs line and points northward. However, power outages were widepsread with as many as 46,000 people reported without power due to the storm.

The gradient between a high pressure center in the Ohio Valley, and deep low pressure over eastern Canada, produced a marginally high wind event across portions of eastern New York State during the midday hours of May 3. Trees, large limbs and power lines were blown down in Rensselaer and Fulton counties. A large limb fell on a car waiting at a red light in Johnstown, trapping two passengers. They were rescued by the Jaws of Life with no injuries. In addition, a porch was damaged by gusty winds in the city of Troy in Rensselaer County. Up to 7,000 customers were temporarily without power in eastern New York as a result of the wind.

A low pressure area deepened as it tracked just to the lee of the Appalachians in both Pennsylvania and New York on March 26. This storm had a copious supply of moisture associated with it. Cold air, damned on the east side of the mountains, held its ground, which produced an extended interval of frozen and freezing precipitation across Warren, Herkimer, northern Hamilton as well as the elevated portions of Fulton, Schoharie and Schenectady counties. Around an inch of water equivalent accumulated in these areas, with the precipitation falling mostly as a mixed bag of snow, sleet and even freezing rain. This scenario resulted in about a half to an inch of ice buildup across portions of these counties. The build up of ice, exasperated by 35 mph winds, brought down many trees and some power lines in these areas. In addition, North Creek in Warren County reported 6.5 inches of snow, followed by sleet and freezing rain. At the height of the storm, over 17,000 customers lost electrical power, more than 7,000 in Fulton County alone.

The pressure gradient between deep low pressure over Ontario, and high pressure off the southeast coast, produced a strong southerly flow across eastern New York on the evening of March 9. Then, a strong cold front moved across the region shortly after midnight, early on March 10th. A line of showers and embedded thunderstorms accompanied the front. Strong winds ahead of and along the front produced some damage across a few counties. Law enforement personnel reported a large number of trees and power lines down in Warren and Washington Counties. In Saratoga County, a very large tree limb was blown onto power lines disrupting power to many customers. Trees and wires were reported down in and around the city of Saratoga Springs. In Schoharie County, a wind gust was clocked to 64 mph in the town of Summit. In Columbia County, a large tree fell onto a home in Philmont, causing structural damage to the roof and attic of the house. In Lake George, Warren County, downed electrical wires may have triggered a fire that in turn, destroyed a boat repair business, nine boats and two nearby cabins. In Fulton County, a large tree fell onto a cabin, damaging the roof. The National Weather Service in Albany New York determined that all the wind damage was the result of non-convective gradient winds.