Thunderstorm Wind, Mifflin
- When
- April 9, 5:15 PM EST
- Where
- Mifflin County, Mc Veytown
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.500, -77.733
A roof was torn off of a barn.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, April 9, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- 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.
What forecasters said that day
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 State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 9, 12:30 PM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 12:30 PM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 130 PM EDT MON APR 9 2001 ...WORK ZONES BY 330 PM... ...ZONES BY 350 PM... ...CHANGES... WILL KEEP FCST CLOSE TO WHAT WE HAVE NOW. FOR MONDAY...WILL PUT CHC SHOWERS IN. ...DISC... ...SHORT TERM... FRONT TO LINGER NEARBY INTO TUE. SW PART OF CWA OF CONCERN...AS FFG ABOUT .5/HR...AND THIS THIS AREA HAS HAD SOME HEAVY STORMS LAST 2 MORNINGS...AND OUTLOOKED FOR HEAVY RAIN. PIT 12Z SOUNDING QUITE UNSTABLE GIVEN TIME OF DAY. WILL HOLD OFF ON WATCH NOW...AS BANDS MORE N/S THAN E/W...AND IT WILL RAIN FOR DAYS...BUT WILL KEEP AN EYE ON IT. ANYWAY...WORSE ACTIVITY LIKELY INTO EARLY EVENING S PA...THEN JUST A CHC OF A SHOWER/STORM OVERNIGHT AND MOST OF TUE. MORE WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY POSSIBLE LATE TUE/EARLY WED AM...MAINLY SW PART OF CWA. MUCH OF WED MAY NOT BE BAD...AS TWO WARM FRONTS SET UP...ONE WELL TO THE SOUTH...AND ANOTHER TO THE N...AND UPPER LEVEL RIDGING TAKES HOLD. ...LONG TERM... WED STILL LOOKS TO BE THE BEST CHC FOR DRY WX THIS WEEK...IN THIS ABNORMALLY WET/MILD PATTERN. DOUBLE WARM FRONT LIKELY ON WED...AS MENTIONED ABOVE. INTENSE STORM PULLS TO THE NE...AND MORE ACTION INTO THE WEEKEND...AT LEAST SHOWERS. SPS FOR CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK WESTERN HALF OF CWA. .CTP...SEVERE WATCH UNTIL 5 PM...WESTERN PART OF CWA. MARTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 1:09 PM EST, 4 hours 6 minutes before
PAZ006-011-012-018-019-026>028-035>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-100030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 209 PM EDT MON APR 9 2001 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR A LARGE PORTION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... POTTER...TIOGA...CAMERON...CLINTON...LYCOMING... SULLIVAN...CENTRE...UNION...SNYDER...NORTHUMBERLAND...MONTOUR... COLUMBIA...SCHUYLKILL...PERRY...DAUPHIN...LEBANON...HUNTINGDON... MIFFLIN...JUNIATA...FULTON...FRANKLIN...ADAMS...YORK...AND LANCASTER. A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE STORMS WILL BE NEAR A WILLIAMSPORT...TO STATE COLLEGE TO ALTOONA LINE BY 4 PM...AND NEAR HARRISBURG AND YORK BY 6 PM. STRONG...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MSE
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 4:08 PM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-100200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 508 PM EDT MON APR 9 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR MOST OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THIS EVENING... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS VALID UNTIL 8 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES. ADAMS...CAMERON...CENTRE...CLINTON...COLUMBIA...CUMBERLAND...DAUPHIN ...FRANKLIN...FULTON...HUNTINGDON...JUNIATA...LANCASTER...LEBANON... LYCOMING...MIFFLIN...MONTOUR...NORTHUMBERLAND...PERRY...POTTER... SCHUYLKILL...SNYDER...SULLIVAN...TIOGA...UNION AND YORK. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS VALID UNTIL 10 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES. BEDFORD...BLAIR...CAMBRIA...CLEARFIELD...ELK AND SOMERSET. A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THIS EVENING. STRONG...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 9, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Ohio, April 9, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, April 9 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in California, April 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 9 to 10, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Montana, April 9, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flood in Pennsylvania, April 9, 2001
- Hail in Michigan, April 9, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, April 9 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, April 9, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Pennsylvania, April 9, 2001
- Heavy Rain in New York, April 9 to 10, 2001
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, April 2001
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: 5242702.