High Wind in Pennsylvania, December 12, 2000

Name: High Wind in Pennsylvania, December 12, 2000
Start: 2000-12-12T04:00
End: 2000-12-12T10:00
Location: Pennsylvania

December 12, 2000 · NWS CTP · 36 events in 36 counties and zones

36 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 36 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 2
Property damage: $500,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 36

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.

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Event by event

36 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Adams

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Adams forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 39.872, -77.218 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Bedford

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Bedford forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.007, -78.490 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Blair

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Blair forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.481, -78.349 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Cambria

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Cambria forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.495, -78.714 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Cameron

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Cameron forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.437, -78.204 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Clearfield

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Clearfield forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.000, -78.474 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Columbia

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Columbia forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.049, -76.405 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Cumberland

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Cumberland forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.164, -77.266 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Dauphin

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Dauphin forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.415, -76.779 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Elk

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Elk forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.425, -78.649 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Franklin

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Franklin forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 39.927, -77.721 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Fulton

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Fulton forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 39.925, -78.113 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Huntingdon

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Huntingdon forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.417, -77.981 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Juniata

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Juniata forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.531, -77.402 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Lancaster

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Lancaster forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.042, -76.248 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Lebanon

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Lebanon forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.367, -76.458 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, McKean

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: McKean forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.808, -78.569 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Mifflin

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Mifflin forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.610, -77.617 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Montour

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Montour forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.028, -76.659 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Northern Centre

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Northern Centre forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.919, -77.820 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Northern Clinton

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Northern Clinton forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.234, -77.638 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Northern Lycoming

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Northern Lycoming forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.343, -77.064 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Northumberland

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Northumberland forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.852, -76.709 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Perry

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Perry forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.398, -77.262 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Potter

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Potter forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.745, -77.896 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Schuylkill

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Schuylkill forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.706, -76.216 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Snyder

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Snyder forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.770, -77.070 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Somerset

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Somerset forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 39.972, -79.028 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Southern Centre

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Southern Centre forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.919, -77.820 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Southern Clinton

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Southern Clinton forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.234, -77.638 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Southern Lycoming

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Southern Lycoming forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.343, -77.064 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Sullivan

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Sullivan forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.446, -76.512 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Tioga

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Tioga forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.772, -77.254 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Union

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Union forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.963, -77.062 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, York

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: York forecast zone
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 39.920, -76.726 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Warren

When: December 12, 4:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Warren forecast zone
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Injuries: 2 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $14,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.815, -79.274 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Low pressure tracked northeast from the Mississippi Valley, intensifying rapidly as it tracked across Cleveland, OH overnight to Montreal, Canada by Tuesday morning of the 12th. A strong cold front trailing from the low moved east across Pennsylvania producing wind damage in every central PA county. Statewide, it was estimated some 200,000 customers were without electricity at some time during the event. A 79-year old female died at 5:30 a.m. in Westport, Clinton County, when a tree fell on her mobile home as she slept. The tree, a sycamore, broke off about 15 feet above the ground and fell on the mobile home. A volunteer fireman was injured when a tree fell on his truck near Ebensburg in Cambria County, and a girl had a leg broken by a falling tree at Kantz in Snyder County.Some wind reports included: 82 mph 2 west of Somerset, 77 mph at Schuylkill Haven, 74 mph in Shippensburg, 73 mph in Lancaster at TV-8. 68 mph was reported at Rock Springs west of State College, and 68 mph at the Penn State Meteorological Observatory; 67 mph at Emergency Management near Williamsport; 64 mph at Altoona Airport; 63 mph at Clearfield Airport; 61 mph in Lebanon; 69 mph at Johnstown Airport; and 59 mph in Pottsville.Trees and power lines were blown down in many locations across the region. Some homes had structural damage from trees, and a number of barns and outbuildings had roofs removed. A high school in Fannetsburg in Franklin County had a large part of the roof blown off the gymnasium. Fortunately, the damage occurred around 5:30 a.m. A roof was blown off an oil change station east of Bedford. The same station was destroyed by a small tornado in January of 1999. In Warren, United Refining had a 110-foot smoke stack blown over by the wind about 4:30 a.m. A mobile home was blown off its foundation and a barn collapsed in Somerset. A glass window was blown out of a hardware store in Galeton. A home lost a metal roof in Danville, and 2 homes and a mobile home had parts of roofs blown off in Columbia County. A roof was blown off a lumber yard building in Huntingdon and a rubber roof was pealed off a water treatment plant in York. Southeast of State College, a barn lost 1/3 of its roof on Route 45 and a 4-foot diamter Elm was blown down just north of the Penn State Campus. Winds also tore the roof from a house in New Berlin.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
High Wind, Warren	2000-12-12	79	Female	Mobile/Trailer Home	Direct

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Pennsylvania, December 2000

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: 5165597, 5165598, 5165599, 5165600, 5165601, 5165602, 5165603, 5165604, 5165605, 5165715, 5165716, 5165717, 5165718, 5165719, 5165720, 5165721, 5165722, 5165723, 5165724, 5165725, 5165726, 5165727, 5165728, 5165729, 5165730, 5165731, 5165732, 5165733, 5165734, 5165735, 5165736, 5166046, 5166047, 5166048, 5166049, 5167116.