Pennsylvania, 1998

Hail in Pennsylvania, June 2, 1998

June 2, 1998 · NWS PBZ · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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 radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:39 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Mercer

When
June 2, 3:37 PM EST
Where
Mercer County, Sharpsville
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
STORM CHASER
Coordinates
41.250, -80.470

Two lines of severe thunderstorms formed ahead of an approaching cold front during the early afternoon and continuing through the late evening hours of June 2nd. These storms produced a total of nine confirmed tornadoes (ranging from F0 to F2) as they swept across southwest Pennsylvania, extreme northern West Virginia and the western panhandle of Maryland. One F1 tornado struck the Mount Washington section of Pittsburgh, producing around $13 million in damage but only minor injuries. This was the first recorded tornado to pass through the Pittsburgh city limits. Although these storms produced millions of dollars of damage as they moved across the region, no deaths occurred and only 51 injuries were reported (mostly in the highly populated Mount Washington area of Pittsburgh).

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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Sources

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: 5668862.