Thunderstorm Wind, Somerset
- When
- July 5, 1:55 PM EST
- Where
- Somerset County, Meyersdale
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 39.817, -79.033
Trees were reported down in Meyersdale.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 5, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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 5, 12:45 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 12:45 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 145 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001 ...WORK ZONES BY 315 PM... ...ZONES BY 345 PM... ...CHANGES... WILL KEEP CHC INTO THIS EVENING. WILL ADD CHC IN FOR FRIDAY IN FAR NE PART OF CWA. WILL ADD CHC IN SUNDAY FOR MDT GROUP. WILL CALL FOR DRY WEATHER FOR THU. WILL EDGE TEMPS UP A LITTLE ON EXTENDED PORTION. ...DISC... ...SHORT TERM... CHC OF SHOWER/STORM INTO THIS EVENING. VORTEX MAY KEEP A SHOWER ACROSS PARTS OF THE UPPER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ON FRIDAY...WITH QUITE A BIT OF CU/SC ELSEWHERE. REMAINS OF UPPER LAKES CONVECTION LIKELY TO CLIP NW PART OF CWA LATE FRIDAY NIGHT...AND INTO SW AREAS SAT AM. COULD SPREAD/FIRE UP AGAIN REST OF C PA SAT AFT...GIVEN STRONG WARM ADVECTION. HOWEVER... THICKNESS PATTERN WOULD SUGGEST BULK OF ACTION WOULD STAY TO THE WEST OF THE CWA. A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS COULD LINGER INTO EARLY SUNDAY...AT LEAST LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY...THUS WILL PUT CHC IN THAT ZONE. ...LONG TERM... WEAK HIGH BUILDS IN LATE SUNDAY. COULD BE MORE ACTION ON WED/THU...BUT WILL KEEP DRY FOR NOW...AS TIMING WOULD BE TRICKY...GIVEN SCALE OF FEATURES AND THE AMT OF TIME INTO THE FUTURE. IN SIMPLE TERMS...NO MAJOR SHIFT IN PATTERN UNTIL AT LEAST LATE NEXT WEEK. JUST ABOUT ANYTIME...SOMETHING COULD DROP IN FROM THE NW. REALLY HARD TO SEE REAL COOL AIR...WILL ADJUST TEMPS UP SOME. .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
- Heat in Texas, July 5, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 5, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, July 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 5, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 5, 2001
- Flash Flood in Arizona, July 5, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Idaho, July 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 5, 2001
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, July 5, 2001
- Tornado in New Jersey, July 5, 2001
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, July 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: 5256996.