Thunderstorm Wind, Lebanon
- When
- August 28, 4:25 PM EST
- Where
- Lebanon County, Palmyra
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.300, -76.583
Trees were reported down in Palmyra.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 28, 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
- 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 28, 12:55 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 12:55 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 155 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 2001 ...WORK ZONES BY 330 PM... ...ZONES BY 345 PM... ...CHANGES... CURRENT FCST NOT BAD. WILL PUT CHC IN FOR TUE. ...DISC... ...SHORT TERM... FRONT PUSHING SE AS EXPECTED. WITH BEST SUPPORT TO THE NORTH...ONLY A FEW STRONG STORMS SO FAR...WITH ONE REPORT OF TREE ON WIRE. LOOKING MORE ACTIVE TO THE WEST NOW. WED LOOKS LIKE A GREAT LATE SUMMER DAY. THU NOT BAD EITHER...JUST A LITTLE WARMER. ...LONG TERM... SOME SHOWERS AND STORMS FROM AT LEAST LATE FRIDAY INTO EARLY SAT. AS IN MOST CASES OF LATELY...BEST DYNAMICS LIFT NE...AND MRF BACKS OFF SOME ON PUSH OF COLDER AIR. MUCH OF HOLIDAY WEEKEND MAY TURN OUT NOT BAD. WARM ADVECTION FOR TUE...AS WE GO BACK INTO A WARM PATTERN. WILL PUT CHC IN FOR TUE. ...OTHER... SPS...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...ISSUED FOR SLIGHT RISK...N SECTIONS OF CWA. .CTP...NONE. MARTIN
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
- Wildfire in California, August 28 to 31, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 28, 2001
- Hail in New Mexico, August 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, August 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 28, 2001
- Flooding and High Wind in Alaska, August 28 to 31, 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: 5260564.