1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 25, 9:38 AM EST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 938 AM EST SUN FEB 25 2001 UPDATING ZONES TO LESSEN THREAT OF PRECIP THIS AFTERNOON. REMAINDER OF FORECAST LOOKS GOOD. WILL KEEP THE WIND WARNING GOING AS GUSTS BEHIND THE FRONT ARE NEARLY 50 MPH AT SOME LOCATIONS. CAT FCSTID = 66 PIT 62 33 40 24 / 40 10 0 10 HLG 62 31 41 26 / 40 10 0 10 MGW 62 33 40 24 / 40 10 0 10 ZZV 62 31 41 26 / 40 10 0 10 PHD 62 31 41 26 / 40 10 0 10 FKL 57 29 37 21 / 50 20 0 10 DUJ 57 29 37 21 / 50 20 0 10 LBE 62 33 40 24 / 40 10 0 10 BTP 57 29 37 21 / 50 20 0 10 IDI 57 29 37 21 / 50 20 0 10 ODM 62 30 40 23 / 50 10 0 10 .PBZ... MD...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 700 PM SUNDAY MDZ001. OH...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 700 PM SUNDAY OHZ039>041...OHZ048>050...OHZ057>059...OHZ068>069. PA...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 700 PM SUNDAY PAZ007>009...PAZ013>016...PAZ020>023...PAZ029>032. WV...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 700 PM SUNDAY WVZ001>004...WVZ012...WVZ021>023...WVZ041.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
An intense area of low pressure passing over the region brought a prolonged period of high winds to western Maryland. Wind gusts estimated to around 60 MPH continued from late morning into the early evening hours, downing several trees, large limbs and power lines across the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Maryland in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Maryland, February 2001
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