Thunderstorm Wind, Blair
- When
- June 21, 3:10 PM EST
- Where
- Blair County, Altoona
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.483, -78.400
Trees and large limbs were reported down in Altoona.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 21, 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 Jun 21, 12:55 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 12:55 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 155 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001 NO REST...AS CONVECTION NOW EVIDENT ACROSS NWRN HALF OF CWA. SHEAR ENV FAVORABLE FOR ROTATION ANYWHERE NEAR AND TO THE SOUTH OF THAT FAITHFUL PUPPY OF A SFC BOUNDARY. IT JUST WANTS TO STAY CLOSE TO US. SPC HAS EXPANDED SLGT RISK AREA TO COVER ALL OF MY CWA. TALL CU VISBL ON SAT PICS WHERE CLEARING/SIG THINNING OF CLD CVR HAS TAKEN PLACE IN WRN PA/ERN OH...ESP ALONG THE PEAKS IN LAURELS...AND RADAR BEGINNING TO SHOW SIGGY RETURNS NOW. AS SFC WAVE OV IN WIGGLES NEWRD ALONG THE BOUNDARY AND IT FORCES THE BNDRY TO LIFT SLIGHTLY NORTH THIS EVENING...WE SHOULD STAY MAINLY IN THE WARM SECTOR UNTIL PROGGED/ATTENDANT SQUALL LINE PUSHES THRU AFT MIDNIGHT. REAL NRLY WINDS AND DRIER AIR NOT TO MAKE AN APPEARANCE UNTIL FRI NITE/SAT. AVN CONTINUES TO ADVERTISE A SLOW PROGRESSION OF THE FINAL FRONT AS IT GETS INTO ERN PA. THIS WL NECESSITATE A LINGERING CHC OF SHRA IN THE EAST ON SAT AM. ADDRESSING THE FLFLOOD THREAT...THREAT APPEARS HIGHEST OV ERN ZNS...WHERE ALLISON MADE IT SOGGY...AND LAST NIGHT'S STORMS ADDED. BUT AFTER COORD W/HPC QPF FCSTR/PHI AND BGM...THE THREAT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE WIDESPREAD ENUF TO WARRANT POSTING A WATCH. CONVECTION IN CENTRAL MTNS THIS AFTN/EVENING SHUD SLIP EASTWARD AND INTO THE SUSQ VLY...BUT...THE CELLS SHOULD BE MOVG...PWATS NOT EXCEEDINGLY HI AND FFG FAIRLY HIGH. XTNDD: SUNDAY LOOKING LIKE THE NICEST DAY AS CD FNT SHUD BE TO EAST AND WEAK SFC HI AROUND AREA. BIG CONTROVERSY IS WHETHER/WHERE UPR CUTOFF LOW WL DEVELOP FOR EARLY/MID NEXT WEEK. TENDENCY FROM YESTERDAYS RUNS IS TO CENTER THE LOW MORE TO THE SW - LIKE OVER THE COAL FIELDS OF KY/WV. UNDER SUCH A FLOW...WE WUD LIKELY SEE DAILY CHCS OF AFTN SHRA AND COOLER THAN CLIMO TEMPS. FMR GUID LOOKS HI TO ME AGAIN TODAY...AND WL CONTINUE PREV FCSTS AND NOTCH TEMPS DOWN FOR MOST OF iXTNDD PDS. .CTP...NONE. DANGELO
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
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 21, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 21, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5253444.