Drought in Pennsylvania, November 1 to 30, 2001

Name: Drought in Pennsylvania, November 1 to 30, 2001
Start: 2001-11-01T00:01
End: 2001-11-30T23:59
Location: Pennsylvania

November 1 to 30, 2001 · NWS PHI · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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 happened

The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.

November 2001 continued the run of unseasonably dry weather. All of Eastern Pennsylvania received less than half of its normal monthly precipitation and was less than one fourth of its normal precipitation totals around Philadelphia. The mounting precipitation deficits prompted Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary David E. Hess on November 6th to issue a drought warning for South Central Pennsylvania (including Chester County). The drought warning for Chester County called for a ten to fifteen percent voluntary reduction in water consumption.

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 Oct 31, 10:05 PM EST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 10:05 PM EST, 1 hour 56 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1005 PM EST WED OCT 31 2001

UPDATE TO ZONES/RDF/CCF/SFP TO REMOVE EVENING WORDING AND TO CHG TO
PTLY CLDY ALL ZONES OVRNGT. OVC OVR NRN ZONES IS BREAKING UP AND
SOME AC/CI APPEARS TO BE STREAMING SEWD INTO SRN ZONES AS WELL.
THEN TOO THERE CUD BE SOME ST ARND TWD MRNG. MINOR CHG TO MINS
POCONOS ZONES...LWRG THE RANGE. PREV DISC IS BELOW.

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DISC: LGT PCPN EXITING NE NJ ON SCHED AND CLDS W/B MOVING ON THRU
LATER THIS EVENING WITH CLEARING SKIES FROM S TO N. BACK EDGE OF
CLDS W/B THRU ABE-PHL LINE BY 315 PM AND SRN COASTAL SEXNS ARND
430-5PM. MOST AREAS SHOULD SEE THE SUN SET. IN ANY EVENT WX CONDS
FOR TRICK OR TREATERS WILL BE OK AND WELL HAVE THE FULL MOON...THE
FIRST IN 46 YRS ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT. REMEMBERING AN OL SAYING...
THE MOON WAS A GHOSTLY GALLEON TOSSED UPON CLOUDY SEAS.

ANYWAY...SFC HIGH MOVES OFFSHORE TONIGHT AND RETURN FLOW SETS IN
AS HIGH BUILDS OVER WESTERN ATLC. VERY STRONG WAA ON 50-65KTS FLOW
IN MID SEXN OF COUNTRY. RIDGE REMAINS ENTRENCHED OVER MID ATLANTIC
STATES AND THIS SCENARIO WILL KEEP AREA DRY ALTHO MODLES TRYING TO
BRING SOME LGT PCPN N ALONG THE COAST. WILL NOT MENTION ANY PCPN AT
THIS TIME. ON A LARGER SCALE...A FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE E BY FRI
AND BRING A NARROW BAND OF PCPN FROM ERN CANADA TO ERN TX. THE UPPER
AIR PATTERN AND FAST FLOW BRINGS THE SFC LO FROM LAKE WINNIPEG TO
BAFFIN BAY. THUS THE SFC FRONT WILL RACE THRU ACROSS THE N AND LAG
BEHIND TO THE S. MUCH OF THAT PCPN MAY WASH OUT BEFORE REACH A GOOD
PART OF THE FA ALTHOUGH WE COULD CERTAINLY USE THE RAIN. MY RIGHT
SEAT INFORMS ME IT/S 15 CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITHOUT MEASUREABLE PCPN IN
PHL. THE RECORD IS 29 CON DAYS FROM OCT 11-NOV 8 1874.

TEMPERATURES ARE GOING TO RISE TO NEAR OR ABV 70 NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS
OR 10 DEG ABV NORMAL. DEW POINTS ALSO ON THE RISE BUT NOT EXPECT TOO
MUCH FOG TONIGHT...THURSDAY NIGHT HOWEVER WILL BE CANDIDATE FOR SOME
PATCHY DENSE FOG.

SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH WITH WINDS VEERING ON THE COAST.
NO OTHER MWSS W/B ISSUED.

FCSTID = 16/EBERWINE
MPO   44  64  47  62 /  20   0  20  40
ABE   44  66  48  66 /  10   0  10  40
RDG   46  68  50  69 /  10   0  10  30
PHL   48  70  51  70 /  10   0  10  30
12N   44  64  47  62 /  20   0  20  40
SMQ   46  70  51  70 /  10   0  10  30
TTN   46  70  51  70 /  10   0  10  30
MIV   46  71  51  72 /  10   0  10  30
ACY   45  71  50  72 /  10   0  10  30
ILG   47  70  51  70 /  10   0  10  30
DOV   48  70  52  70 /  10   0  10  30
GED   48  70  52  70 /  10   0  10  30
ESN   48  70  52  70 /  10   0  10  30

.PHI...
DE...NONE.
MD...NONE.
NJ...NONE.
PA...NONE.

Event by event

1 drought. Local standard time, as filed.

Drought, Chester

When: November 1, 12:01 AM EST to November 30, 11:59 PM EST
Where: Chester forecast zone
Reported by: GOVT OFFICIAL

What these are

Drought: A drought reaching severe (D2) or worse on the US Drought Monitor, or with notable impacts.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Pennsylvania, November 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: 5273035.