Thunderstorm Wind, Schuylkill
- When
- July 10, 5:42 PM EST
- Where
- Schuylkill County, Tamaqua
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.800, -75.950
Trees were reported down in Tamaqua and in Hometown at 17:51 EST.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 10, 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 Jul 10, 3:00 PM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 3:00 PM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 400 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001 COLD FRONT ON LEADING EDGE OF UPR LOW OVER ERN CAN PUSHING INTO NW PA ATTM. SCT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ONGOING ATTM BECOMING MOST ORGANIZED IN THE LAST HOUR OR TWO. EARLIER TODAY EXPECTED ANOTHER ROUND OF TSTORMS TONIGHT AS MODEL GUIDANCE SHOWED STRONG SHORTWAVE DIVING OVER UPR RIDGE INTO PA BETWEEN 6 AND 12Z. BUT GIVEN THAT POSTFRONTAL AIR HAS ENTERED NW PA...WHAT IS FIRING NOW WILL BE THE MAIN ACTION WITH ONE W TO E LINE OVER SRN PA AND ANOTHER OVER CENTRAL INTO NE PA. HOWEVER VIS SAT IMAGERY SHOWS SOME KIND OF WAVE INITIATING SHWRS/TSTMS OVER SE ONT. WHILE THESE STORMS MAY MOVE SE... THE AMS IT WILL MOVE INTO...AT LEAST OVER PA...WILL NOT BE CONDUCIVE TO SIG STORMS LATER TONIGHT. WILL MAINTAIN GENERAL SCT SHWRS/THUNDERSTORMS WITH WORDING FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALL ZONES...SEVERE WORDING FOR SRN PA COUNTIES IN WATCH BOX. COOLER TOMORROW THOUGH MOS GUIDANCE FOR TOMORROW ARE SIG WARMER THAN WHAT WE HAD BEEN THINKING LAST SEVERAL DAYS. PLAYED IT THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. TOMORROW SHOULD FEEL COOLER THAN TODAY BUT MAY NOT BE AS COOL AS ORIGINALLY EXPECTED. UNDER COOL TEMPS ALOFT AFTN INSTABILITY SHOWERS MAY BE PREVALENT SO KEPT 30 POP FOR ALL DAY ON WED NOT JUST MORNING. EXTENDED... CONTINUE PVS THINKING WITH QUIET WEATHER. COOL TEMPS TO START THEN MODERATING INTO THE WEEKEND. ON TUE...COLD FRONT POISED TO THE NW OF PA SO INCLUDED GENERAL CHANCE OF SHOWERS ALONG WITH PC SKIES. .CTP...SVR TSTM WATCH FOR SRN HALF OF CWA UNTIL 9PM. GARTNER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 12:58 PM EST, 4 hours 44 minutes before
PAZ024>028-033>036-056>059-063>066-110045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 158 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR MOST OF SOUTH-CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ADAMS...BEDFORD...BLAIR...CAMBRIA...CUMBERLAND...DAUPHIN...FRANKLIN ...FULTON...HUNTINGDON...JUNIATA...LANCASTER...LEBANON...MIFFLIN... PERRY...SCHUYLKILL...SOMERSET...AND YORK. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO OCCUR. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL LARGER THEN THREE QUARTERS O[F AN INCH IN DIAMETER ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. ONDREJIK
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 Massachusetts, July 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, July 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 10, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Wyoming, July 10, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, July 10 to 11, 2001
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, July 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 10 to 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 10 to 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 10, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Pennsylvania, July 10, 2001
More
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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: 5256816.