Thunderstorm Wind, Perry
- When
- August 30, 7:40 PM EST
- Where
- Perry County, New Bloomfield
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.417, -77.183
Trees were reported down in New Bloomfield.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 30, 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 30, 7:15 PM EST, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 7:15 PM EST, 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 815 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ON RADAR OVER THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. IT APPEARS THAT THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG THE SURFACE WARM FRONT WHICH IS TRYING TO PUSH THROUGH THE AREA. ACTUALLY...LOOKING AT THE DEWPOINTS...THE DEWPOINT SURGE IS ALREADY PROGRESSED NORTHWARD INTO THE MID SUSQ VALLEY. THE FRONT NOW APPEARS TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN A WIND SHIFT LINE. EXAMINING THE UPPER LEVELS...THERE IS A WEAK BUT DISCERNIBLE 50 KT WIND MAX MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TIER OF PA ATTM. THIS IS PROBABLY AIDING TO ENERGIZE THE SURFACE FRONT A BIT. IN FACT...OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS...A WEAK LOW PRESSURE CENTER HAS BEEN DETECTED ALONG THE MASON DIXON LINE...MOVING EAST. THIS SURFACE FEATURE TOO MAY BE A REFLECTION OF THE UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT. IN ANY EVENT...EXPECT THAT AS THIS UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT MOVES EAST OVERNIGHT...THE WARM FRONT WILL LOSE MUCH OF IT/S ABILITY TO SUPPORT PCPN. WILL ADD SCT SHRA/TSRA TO THE MID AND LOWER SUSQ FORECAST OVERNIGHT. LATER PERIODS UNCHANGED. .CTP...NONE. JUNG
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 Virginia, August 30, 2001
- Rip Current in California, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30 to 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Maryland, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30, 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: 5260566.