Dust Devil, Monroe
- When
- June 9, 10:30 AM EST
- Where
- Monroe County, Saylorsburg
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.058, -75.339 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Dust Devil in Pennsylvania, June 9, 2001
A dust devil at the Saylorsburg Flea Market picked up a table and it fell on and injured (hospitalized) one woman.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- 1
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
A dust devil at the Saylorsburg Flea Market picked up a table and it fell on and injured (hospitalized) one woman.
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 Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 9, 9:47 AM EST, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 9:47 AM EST, 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1047 AM EDT SAT JUN 9 2001 ANALYSES FROM SFC TO H5 BASICALLY SHOW DRYNESS AND A NW FLOW THROUGHOUT. AM SOUNDINGS HAVE CONV TEMPS IN THE LOWER 80S...BUFKIT THE MID TO UPPER 70S. SINCE AIR IS DRY AND THERE ARE SOME SIGNS OF A CAP...ONLY MINOR SC EXPECTED. ALL THIS CONSISTENT WITH PREV FCST ON SKY COVER. BASED ON SOUNDINGS AND LOCAL SCHEMES...BROKE OUT SUSSEX CO NJ FROM THE SRN POCONOS AS THE WARMER LOCATIONS THERE COULD SEE 80...AND EXPANDED MAXES IN MANY OF THE SRN ZONES TO 80 TO 85. OTHERWISE... FCST RATIONALE IS BELOW. MPD *************************************************************** QUIET NW FLOW CONT ALOFT KEEPING US IN DRY WX. WILL INCREASE MAX TEMPS A FEW DEGREES TODAY AND AGAIN SUN. SHOULD SEE A STRONGER SEABREEZE THAN FRI BOTH DAYS SO WILL TRIM MAX TEMPS COASTAL ZONES. NEXT CHNC SHWR IS STILL ON FOR MON AS WEAK H5 S/W MOVES THRU. NOTHING ON THE MARINE. .PHI...NONE. ZEV
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dust Devil
- A small rotating column of dust from surface heating that caused damage or injury.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 5255177.