Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 10, 2001
Start: 2001-07-10T21:20
End: 2001-07-10T21:25
Location: Pennsylvania

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $500,000
Crop damage: $2.0 million
Events: 2

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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 8:20 PM EST, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 8:20 PM EST, 1 hour before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
920 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001

WL AGN UPDATE FCST TO ELIMINATE MENTION OF PCPN WRN ZNS AND CORRECT
AND MISSING COUNTY FROM PRVS UPDATE. WL ALSO PRBBLY LOWER POPS A
NOTCH FOR CNTRL AND ERN SXNS. NO CHGS PLANNED FOR TMPS ATTM.

.CLE...
.OH...NONE.
.PA...NONE.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 6:00 PM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes before

OHZ017-027>032-036>038-047-102330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
700 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #540 HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES IN NORTHERN OHIO...CRAWFORD...MORROW...WAYNE...HANCOCK...
KNOX...MARION...ASHLAND...WYANDOT...RICHLAND...STARK AND HOLMES.

THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED OUT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT
PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAVE EFSSENTIALLY MOVED TO THE
SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE THIS EVENING BUT THE POTENTIAL FOR
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DECREASED DRAMATICALLY.

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The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:19 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Erie

When: July 10, 9:20 PM EST to 9:25 PM EST
Where: Erie County, North East
Property damage: $500,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 42.217, -79.767

A thunderstorm downburst with winds estimated at 70 mph moved onshore from Lake Erie at North East. The damage path from this downburst was approximately one and a half miles wide and around two miles in length with the most concentrated damage near the lakeshore. This area was bordered to the west by State Route 89 and to the south by US Highway 20. Several dozen trees and power poles were downed and at least four homes damaged. A garage and up to two dozen cars were also damaged. About an hour after the storm, a man driving a car hit some debris in the road and was killed in the resulting accident.

Hail, Erie

When: July 10, 9:20 PM EST to 9:25 PM EST
Where: Erie County, North East
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Crop damage: $2.0 million
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 42.217, -79.767

Dime size hail was reported over a large area. Around 3,000 acres of grapes on 24 farms were damaged by the hail. Approximately 25 percent of the grape crop on these 3,000 acres was destroyed. Initial estimates put the financial loss at $2,000,000 but actual losses could be significantly higher and will not be known until after the fall harvest.

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.
Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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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: 5258885, 5258886.