Hail, Blair
- When
- August 19, 3:20 PM EST
- Where
- Blair County, Tyrone
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.683, -78.233
Dime size hail was reported in Tyrone.
Hail in Pennsylvania, August 19, 2001
1 hail, 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
- None recorded
- 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 Aug 19, 1:20 PM EST, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 1:20 PM EST, 2 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 220 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 2001 THINGS ARE A-POPPIN IN THE WEST. NOTHING BEASTLY YET...BUT POTENTIAL IS STILL THERE. MANY PSU STUDENTS RETURNED THIS WEEKEND...AND THE METEO TYPES ARE ALL EXCITED ABT SVR POTENTIAL AND STORM CHASING. ALL I CAN SAY IS...BE CAREFUL TEMPS NOT QUITE AS HOT AS I HAD THOUGHT IN THE SOUTH/CENTRAL...THIS SEEMS TO BE TEMPERING ACTIVITY OVER THE SC MTNS ATTM...BUT PROBABLY NOT FOR LONG. AS UPR LOW NOW PROGGD TO DEEPEN SLIGHTLY MORE THAN PREV...BELIEVE THAT FROPA WL BE SLOWER ON THE WHOLE...BUT TIMING ON SAT LOOP PUSHES THE FRONT TO FAR WRN ZNS BEFORE 00Z. NEWEST MESOETA NOW HEAVES THE FRONT THRU THE ERN PT OF THE STATE WITH A DECENT DRY SLOT BEHIND...WHERE IT HUNG IT UP DURING THE MORNING HOURS IN PREV RUNS. A FEW SHRA MAY LINGER DURING THE DAY ON MON...AND WL LEAVE IN LOW CHC POPS MOST PLACES...XCPT FOR THE NW WHERE 40 POPS WL SHOW UP DUE TO PROXIMITY TO COLDER MID LVL AIR. THINGS QUIET DOWN FOR TUE...BUT CHCS RETURN BY LATE WED/THUR. ALTHO WITH FRONT NOW PROGGD BY NEW AVN TO PUSH TO THE SOUTH WISHING TO MAKE A RETURN APPEARANCE...THE CHCS WON/T BE ALL THAT GREAT. TEMPS TO HANG CLOSE TO CLIMO THRU THE PD...PERHAPS A BIT BETTER. .CTP...SPS FOR SLIGHT RISK SEVERE. DANGELO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 9:31 AM EST, 5 hours 49 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-192130- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1031 AM EDT SUN AUG 19 2001 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... A STRONG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE EASTWARD FROM THE GREAT LAKES TODAY...BRINGING THE CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THROUGH THE EVENING. THE GREATEST LIKELIHOOD OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON...THEN SHIFT TO THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COMMONWEALTH DURING THE EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS SYSTEM WILL BE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS...ALTHOUGH THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT POSSIBILITY FOR SOME OF THESE STORMS TO FORM TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED LATER TODAY. DANGELO/RXR
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:10 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>027-033>035-045-200000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 310 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 2001 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... MCKEAN...CENTRE...SOMERSET...BEDFORD...CAMERON...BLAIR...POTTER... CAMBRIA...CLINTON...WARREN...CLEARFIELD...ELK...CLINTON...CENTRE... HUNTINGDON...MIFFLIN AND FULTON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL..AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HEAD
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Wildfire in California, August 19 to 29, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Pennsylvania, August 19, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 19, 2001
- Wildfire in Montana, August 19, 2001
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, August 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 19, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, August 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, August 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 19, 2001
- High Wind in Florida, August 19, 2001
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, August 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: 5260234.