Actually managed to get an answer to my question about what hit us - here's a portion of the e-mail I received from a meteorologist who covers that area:
"Hi Brian -
... I...am an on-air meteorologist at WRGB. I was tracking the storm you are talking about, which was a severe thunderstorm at the time on Sunday afternoon. That storm produced a microburst in South Cairo and Leeds and Greene County with wind gusts up to 100-125 mph, and straight line wind damage in West Stockbridge, MA with winds estimated between 75-85 mph. While no official microburst was documented by the National Weather Service in Hillsdale, it is likely you experienced severe thunderstorm wind gusts in excess of 70 mph and large hail over 3/4" diameter (North Hillsdale in fact reported 1.00" hail, and Greenport 1.00" hail as well), and trees were reported down in Austerlitz. If you would like more information, you can always click on http://www.cbs6albany.com/sections/weather/historical/daily/ and go to July 2008 and look up Sunday, July 27. Also, here is the official report of the microburst that impacted Cairo and Leeds: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/aly/Past/2008/Jul_27_2008/PNS.txt
storm damage reports can also be found here: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/al"Hi Brian -
... I...am an on-air meteorologist at WRGB. I was tracking the storm you are talking about, which was a severe thunderstorm at the time on Sunday afternoon. That storm produced a microburst in South Cairo and Leeds and Greene County with wind gusts up to 100-125 mph, and straight line wind damage in West Stockbridge, MA with winds estimated between 75-85 mph. While no official microburst was documented by the National Weather Service in Hillsdale, it is likely you experienced severe thunderstorm wind gusts in excess of 70 mph and large hail over 3/4" diameter (North Hillsdale in fact reported 1.00" hail, and Greenport 1.00" hail as well), and trees were reported down in Austerlitz. If you would like more information, you can always click on http://www.cbs6albany.com/sections/weather/historical/daily/ and go to July 2008 and look up Sunday, July 27. Also, here is the official report of the microburst that impacted Cairo and Leeds: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/aly/Past/2008/Jul_27_2008/PNS.txt
Hope this helps!
Mark Margarit
Weekend Meteorologist
WRGB Albany"
Definitely not in a hurry to go through *that* again...as in, EVER..! :-)
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