2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Apr 7, 2:44 AM EST, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 344 AM EDT SAT APR 7 2001 WARM FRONTAL BNDRY DRAPPED ACROSS CWA N OF PIT TO NERNOH ATTM. 88DS SHOWING PRECIP HEADING TWD NRN SXNS CWA ALONG NRN EDGE OF BNDRY WHILE SOME LGT -SHRA COULD OCCUR THIS MRNG ELSW...MRNG FOG TO BE MENTIONED. WITH BNDRY ACROSS REGION ACTING AS A FOCUS MECHANISM TODAY AND WARM UNSTABLE AMS ACROSS SRN SXNS ANY SUBTLE SHRT/WV AND SUNH COULD TRIGGER SOME PRECIP DURG AFTN/EVE. TNGT WITH KEEP CHC POPS AGAIN...BUT AM CONCERNED ABOUT SRN SXNS ALONG OHIO RVR BY EARLY SUN MRNG AS MDLS INDICATING STRONG LLVL JET 50KTS/GOOD LIFT AND SUBTLE SHRT/WV...ETA MORE AGRESSIVE OF THE MDLS AND WITH PRECIP. FOR TIME BEING SUNDAY WILL GO 50POPS S AND 30 POPS N. XCPT FOR NRN SXNS TEMPS SHLD REACH INTO 70S TODAY...RAISED A TAD ABV GUID TNGT. PIT 74 61 76 60 / 40 40 40 30 HLG 74 60 75 60 / 40 40 40 30 MGW 76 62 78 61 / 30 40 50 30 ZZV 76 62 79 61 / 30 40 50 30 PHD 73 60 75 60 / 40 40 40 30 FKL 69 55 69 56 / 40 40 30 30 DUJ 67 55 68 56 / 40 40 30 30 LBE 76 61 78 60 / 40 40 40 30 BTP 71 58 72 59 / 40 40 40 30 IDI 73 58 75 59 / 40 40 40 30 ODM 72 59 75 58 / 40 40 40 30 .PBZ... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE.
PAZ007-008-013>015-022-071130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 450 AM EDT SAT APR 7 2001 ...EARLY MORNING THUNDERSTORMS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REG&ION EARLY THIS MORNING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS... HEAVY DOWNPURS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ONE HALF INCH OF RAINFALL CAN OCCUR IN LESS THAN AN HOUR WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong thunderstorms producing rainfall amounts of up to 1.5 inches in less than one hour produced minor residential and roadway flooding along McKee Run near West Pittsburg.
Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees in the Van area.
Thunderstorm winds blew a chimney down from a house and also downed a few trees in the McMurray area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, April 2001
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: 5239962, 5239963, 5239964.