Hail, Tioga
- When
- August 26, 8:25 PM EST
- Where
- Tioga County, Elkland
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 41.983, -77.300
Dime size hail was reported in Elkland.
Hail in Pennsylvania, August 26, 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 26, 7:08 PM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 7:08 PM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 808 PM EDT SUN AUG 26 2001 LOTS OF MARGINAL TYPE STORM STRUCTURE TO CONTEND WITH ON THE RADAR THIS EVENING. BRIEF TOUCHDOWN OF A TORNADO REPORTED BY PUBLIC IN POTTER COUNTY...LATER DESCRIBED AS A DUST DEVIL TYPE FUNNEL. NEVERTHELESS A MODERATE AND LONG LIVED ROTATION WAS OBSERVED WITH THE CELL VIA THE KCCX RADAR AND A TORNADO WARNING WAS IMMEDIATELY ISSUED. FORTUNATELY...NO DAMAGE WAS REPORTED WITH THIS CELL. CURRENTLY LOOKING AT MORE MINI-BOW LIKE STRUCTURES PROPOGATING ACROSS NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES. NO CHANGES ANTICIPATED TO GOING FORECAST THIS EVENING...BUT WILL LIKELY TOUCH UP WORDING FOR THE OVERNIGHT ONCE ACTIVITY QUIETS DOWN. THE GOOD NEWS OF THE EVENING IS THAT SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS AND SEVERE WEATHER HAVE STEERED CLEAR OF PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES IN WILLIAMSPORT. .CTP...NONE. DEVOIR
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:22 UTC.
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
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 26, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in Oklahoma, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 26 to 27, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 26, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 26, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, August 26, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Ohio, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, August 26, 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: 5260456.