Name: Tornado in Pennsylvania, June 1, 2001
Start: 2001-06-01T15:30
End: 2001-06-01T15:40
Location: Pennsylvania

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $100,000
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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 1, 2:15 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:15 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
315 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2001

MODERATE LINES OF CONVECTION CONTINUE TO MOV E THRU THE ERN HALF OF
THE CWA ATTM WITH MORE SOLID CONVECTION ACR SE OH WHERE INSTABILITY
IS GREATER. CONVECTION OVR NRN OHIO IS ALG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE SFC
CDFNT WHICH IS APCHG HZY AND YNG ATTM. WL INCLUDE AN EARLY EVN CHC
ACR THE ERN 1/3.  DRIER AIR WILL SPREAD INTO THE REGION BEFORE
MIDNIGHT. A BRIEF PERIOD OF PARTIAL CLEARING IS EXPECTED BEFORE
CLOUDS INCR AGAIN AHEAD OF THE NEXT POWERFUL SHORT WAVE NOW DIVING
SOUTHEAST THRU THE UPPER MS VLY WHICH WL AFFECT THE RGN ON SAT.
MSTR RETURN WILL BE MINIMAL BUT SUFFICIENT TO PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND
OF RW/TSTM. RELATIVELY LOW FREEZING LEVEL WILL LIKELY INCREASE THE
THREAT OF HAIL WITH SOME OF THE MORE INTENSE TSTM.

MODELS HAVE BEEN FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH TIMING AND EVOLUTION OF THE
SHORT WAVE. CAPES ARE PROGD TO INCREASE ABOVE 1200 J/KG BY 18Z JUST
AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. WE WILL MENTION THE CHANCE FOR HAIL ON
SATURDAY.

THE UPPER CLOSED LOW WILL REMAIN NEAR THE AREA SAT NGT AND GRADUALLY
MOVE EAST ON SUNDAY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY
BEFORE BRIEF DRYING MOVES IN FOR SUNDAY NGT AND MON.

FWC TEMPS AND POPS SEAM REASONABLE WITH MINOR ADJUSTMENTS.

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

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The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:31 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Crawford

When: June 1, 3:30 PM EST to 3:40 PM EST
Where: Crawford County, Custards
Rating: F0
Path length: 5 mi
Path width: 65 yd
Property damage: $100,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.533, -80.167

A F0 tornado touched down near Custards in south central Crawford County. The tornado then traveled northeast for approximately five miles before dissipating just east of US Highway 322 near Shaws. The damage path was intermittent and approximately 200 feet in width. Around 100 trees were knocked down along the damage path with an additional 200 trees damaged. A house was damaged by a fallen tree near the site of the initial tornado touchdown.

What these are

Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Pennsylvania, 2001 Warnings in Pennsylvania, June 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: 5252586.