Name: High Wind in Pennsylvania, February 25, 2001
Start: 2001-02-25T09:00
End: 2001-02-25T18:00
Location: Pennsylvania

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $50,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 happened

The episode as NWS CLE wrote it up.

A very strong area of low pressure moved across the Great Lakes during the day and caused damaging southwest to west winds in northwestern Pennsylvania. Many trees were blown down with most of the damage occurring during the middle portion of the day.

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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 25, 3:45 AM EST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 3:45 AM EST, 5 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
345 AM EST SUN FEB 25 2001

MAIN PROBLEM FOR TDY IS THE WIND. SFC WNDS HAV INCRSD DUE TO STG LOW
LVL WNDS ALG & AHD OF THE APCHG CDFNT. WITH THE SHWRS & FNTL PASS
XPCT STG WND GUSTS PSBLY RCHG 60 MPH OR MORE TDY. WL ISSUE A HIGH
WIND WRNG FOR ALL OF THE CWA TDY. WAA OCCURG ATTM BOOSTG TEMPS INTO
THE 40S & 50S. NICE DRY SLOT SHULD END THE PCPN FROM THE W FROM AFTN
ON. CULD BE A MIX OR CHGOVR TO SNW OVR THE FAR NE OH/NW PA BFR ENDG
OVRNGT. XPCT WINDS TO SUBSIDE QUICKLY & THE PCPN TO END AS THE LOW
MOVS OFF TO THE NE TNGT. MON & PSBLY TUE APPEARS TO BE THE BEST DAYS
THIS WEEK AS HI PRES BLDS ACRS THE AREA. THEN A TROF DVLPS WI AN
ARCTIC FLOW BY WED.
...MISCLE AVBL...

.CLE...
OH...HIGH WIND WRNG FOR ALL OF THE CWA TODAY.
PA...DITTO

SEM

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Crawford

When: February 25, 9:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
Where: Crawford forecast zone
Property damage: $15,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 41.685, -80.106 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Northern Erie

When: February 25, 9:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
Where: Northern Erie forecast zone
Property damage: $20,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 42.118, -80.098 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Southern Erie

When: February 25, 9:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
Where: Southern Erie forecast zone
Property damage: $15,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 42.118, -80.098 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Pennsylvania, February 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: 5235114, 5235115, 5235116.