High Wind in Pennsylvania, October 25 to 26, 2001

Name: High Wind in Pennsylvania, October 25 to 26, 2001
Start: 2001-10-25T11:00
End: 2001-10-26T02:00
Location: Pennsylvania

October 25 to 26, 2001 · NWS CLE · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

Damaging westerly winds occurred in northwestern Pennsylvania behind a strong cold front. Most of the damage occurred during the afternoon and evening hours.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $70,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 CLE wrote it up.

Damaging westerly winds occurred in northwestern Pennsylvania behind a strong cold front. Most of the damage occurred during the afternoon and evening hours. Many trees were downed in Erie and Crawford Counties with scattered power outages also reported.

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 Oct 25, 8:35 AM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 8:35 AM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
935 AM EDT THU OCT 25 2001

MAJOR PROBLEM REMAINS INTENSITY OF WINDS. LOOKS LIKE GRADIENT WILL
BE TIGHTEST OVERNIGHT BUT WIND GUSTS AT CLE ALREADY 42 KTS. NRN 2/3
OF AREA CURRENTLY UNDER WIND ADVISORY WL BE UPGRADED TO A HIGH WIND
WARNING FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SRN 1/3 CWA WL BE BROUGHT
INTO FOLD WITH WIND ADVISORY FOR THIS AFTN AND TNGT. WL ALSO MAKE
SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO TEMPS FOR TDA DEPENDENT ON LATEST OBS. OTHER
THAN ADV/WRNG AND TMP ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTN WL LV FCST PRETTY MUCH
INTACT.

.CLE...
OH...STORM WARNING LAKE ERIE
     HIGH WIND WARNING NRN 2/3 CWA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
     WIND ADVISORY SRN 1/3 CWA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
PA...STORM WARNING LAKE ERIE
     HIGH WIND WARNING THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 25, 6:50 AM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
750 AM EDT THU OCT 25 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1100 PM    POLK                      OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   ASHLAND                        ONE TREE DOWN.

1100 PM    2 NW ASHLAND              OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   ASHLAND                        ONE TREE DOWN.

1105 PM    GLENMONT                  OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   HOLMES                         ONE TREE DOWN.

1105 PM    15 S MILLERSBURG          OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   HOLMES                         ONE TREE DOWN ON ROUTE 83.

1120 PM    BROADVIEW HEIGHTS         OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   CUYAHOGA                       ONE TREE DOWN.

1115 PM    OLMSTED TOWNSHIP          OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   CUYAHOGA                       ONE TREE DOWN.

1105 PM    NORTHFIELD                OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   SUMMIT                         ONE TREE DOWN.

1110 PM    BATH                      OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   SUMMIT                         ONE TREE DOWN.

1115 PM    NORTH CANTON              OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   STARK                          TREE FELL ON CAR IN
                                          DRIVEWAY.

1120 PM    ALLIANCE                  OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   STARK                          ONE LARGE LIMB FELL ON
                                          CAR.

0835 PM    TOLEDO                    OH   WIND DAMAGE
10/24/01   LUCAS                          MANY LARGE LIMBS DOWN.

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The radar

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Event by event

3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Southern Erie

When: October 25, 11:00 AM EST to October 26, 2:00 AM EST
Where: Southern Erie forecast zone
Property damage: $20,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 42.118, -80.098 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Northern Erie

When: October 25, 11:00 AM EST to October 26, 2:00 AM EST
Where: Northern Erie forecast zone
Property damage: $25,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 42.118, -80.098 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

High Wind, Crawford

When: October 25, 11:00 AM EST to October 26, 2:00 AM EST
Where: Crawford forecast zone
Property damage: $25,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 41.685, -80.106 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

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, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5271935, 5271936, 5271937.