Thunderstorm Wind, Schuylkill
- When
- September 4, 2:27 PM EST
- Where
- Schuylkill County, Cressona
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.633, -76.200
Trees were reported down in Cresson.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, September 4, 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 Sep 4, 2:25 PM EST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 2:25 PM EST, 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION... CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA ISSUED BY NWS PITTSBURGH PA 325 PM EDT TUE SEP 4 2001 MENTION OF EVENING THUNDERSTORMS AND SEVERE POTENTIAL COORDINATED WITH RECENT RADAR AND SATELLITE DATA. OVER THE NEXT WEEK...THE EVOLVING PATTERN ALOFT WILL FEATURE TROUGH BUILDING IN THE FAR WEST AND RIDGE BUILDING IN THE EASTERN U.S. SO TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE COMING 7 DAYS. WEATHERWISE...FOR DAYS 1-3...THE ETA AND AVN SHOW HIGH PRESSURE MOVING SOUTHEAST OUT OF WESTERN ONTARIO AND GIVING MAINLY CLEAR SKIES INTO FRIDAY. SOME PATCHY FOG WAS MENTIONED FOR TUESDAY MORNING. FOR THE WEEKEND...THE MRF CONTINUES TO BE ABOUT 12 HOURS FASTER THAN THE ECM WITH MOVING A WEAK COLD FRONT FROM THE ROCKIES THROUGH THE NORTHEASTERN U.S. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MENTIONED FOR LATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. LOW LEVEL RETURN FLOW FROM THE GULF MAY BRING ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY. .CTP... PA...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TIL 900 PM PAZ057-058-059-065-066
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
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, September 4, 2001
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, September 4, 2001
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, September 4, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New York, September 4, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, September 4, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New York, September 4, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, September 4, 2001
- Funnel Clouds in Texas, September 4, 2001
- Flooding in Alaska, September 4 to 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Jersey, September 4, 2001
- Flood in South Carolina, September 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, September 4, 2001
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, September 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: 5263650.