1 thunderstorm wind, 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 State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 9, 12:30 PM EST, 6 hours 45 minutes earlier.
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
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.
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-100400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 735 PM EDT MON APR 9 2001 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL MIDNIGHT THIS MONDAY EVENING... THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ADAMS...BEDFORD...CUMBERLAND...DAUPHIN...FRANKLIN...FULTON... LANCASTER...LEBANON...PERRY...SCHUYLKILL...AND YORK. ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. WATCHES ARE NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR WARREN...MCKEAN...ELK...POTTER... CAMERON...CLINTON...CENTRE...CAMBRIA...SOMERSET...BLAIR...MIFFLIN... HUNTINGDON...JUNIATA...SNYDER...UNION...MONTOUR...NORTHUMBERLAND... COLUMBIA...TIOGA...LYCOMING...AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES. BANDS OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH TO THE EAST AND SOUTH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THIS EVENING. SOME STORMS WILL CONTAIN LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WArRNINGS. SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. MARTIN
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE, PA
751 PM EDT MON APR 9 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0134 PM SMETHPORT PA .75 INCH HAIL
04/09/01 MCKEAN
0143 PM LEWIS RUN PA 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/09/01 MCKEAN
0450 PM BARNESBORO PA WIND DAMAGE
04/09/01 CAMBRIA TREES DOWN
0520 PM JOHNSTOWN PA WIND DAMAGE
04/09/01 CAMBRIA TREES DOWN
0535 PM COUDERSPORT PA WIND DAMAGE
04/09/01 POTTER TREES/WIRES DOWN
0535 PM BELLWOOD PA .75 INCH HAIL
04/09/01 BLAIR
0550 PM SPRUCE CREEK PA WIND DAMAGE
04/09/01 HUNTINGDON TREES DOWN
0615 PM MCVEYTOWN PA WIND DAMAGE
04/09/01 MIFFLIN BARN ROOF OFF
0710 PM HALIFAX PA WIND DAMAGE
04/09/01 DAUPHIN TREES DOWN
0710 PM CHAMBERSBURG PA WIND DAMAGE
04/09/01 FRANKLIN CARPORT BLOWN DOWN
0710 PM NEWVILLE PA WIND DAMAGE
04/09/01 CUMBERLAND b MOBILE HOME BLOWN OFF
FOUNDATION
0725 PM LEBANON PA WIND DAMAGE
04/09/01 LEBANON TREES/WIRES DOWN
FITZGERALDThe Sterling radar (KLWX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:13 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trailers were damaged by an estimated wind gust of 75 mph. Several structures and automobiles were also damaged in Craley at 1925 EST by the same thunderstorm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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