1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 May 27, 9:55 AM EST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1055 AM EDT SUN MAY 27 2001 VIS IMAGERY SHOWING VERY FEW BREAKS IN CLOUD COVER ACROSS CENTRAL PA AS OF LATE MORNING. THEREFORE...SVR THREAT NOT LOOKING TOO PROMISING AT THIS POINT. HOWEVER...EXPECT ENOUGH INSTABILITY TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF APPROACHING S/WV TO PRODUCE A FEW EMBEDDED TSTMS WITHIN LARGER BAND OF SHOWERS. BEHIND VORT MAX...SATELLITE SHOWING PTSUNNY SKIES OVER MUCH OF OHIO. 12 ETA NOW SUGGESTS THIS AREA OF SUBSIDENCE/CLEARING WILL MAKE IT INTO CENTRAL AND WESTERN SECTIONS BY LATE AFTN. HAVE LOWERED HIGH TEMPS BY A FEW DEGREES DUE TO LACK OF SUNSHINE AND APPROACHING RAINFALL. WORK ZONES ALREADY SENT AS PHLWRKMIS. .CTP...NONE. FITZGERALD
PAZ027-028-037-041-042-045-046-049>053-056>059-063>066-272300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 109 PM EDT SUN MAY 27 2001 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... LEBANON...MONTOUR...NORTHUMBERLAND...UNION...SULLIVAN...JUNIATA... NORTHERN LYCOMING...PERRY...TIOGA...DAUPHIN...LANCASTER... CUMBERLAND...ADAMS...SCHUYLKILL...YORK...COLUMBIA...SNYDER...SOUTHERN LYCOMING...SOUTHERN CLINTON AND MIFFLIN. AT 105 PM EDT A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY INCREASE IN INTENSITY AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE...AND OR HAIL OF THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER. LAMBERT/FITZGERALD
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Quarter sized hail damaged 150 acres of cropland 2 miles south of Selinsgrove.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, May 2001
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