Thunderstorm Wind, Brooke
- When
- August 8, 6:50 PM EST
- Where
- Brooke County, Follansbee
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.333, -80.583
Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
Damaging Wind in West Virginia, August 8, 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
- $1,000
- 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 Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 2:25 PM EST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:25 PM EST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 325 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2001 MENTIONED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN FOR TONIGHT AS SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO FIRE ALONG LEFTOVER BOUNDARIES FORMED FROM THE RAINS OF EARLY THIS MORNING. SOME WIND GUSTS CAN GO OVER 30 MPH...DUE TO LARGE INSTABILITY...SO MENTIONED HIGHER GUSTS NEAR STORMS WITH WIND FORECAST. SOME PATCHY FOG CAN FORM AGAIN LATE TONIGHT. THURSDAY SHOULD BE A DITTO OF TODAY. INCLUDED RECORDS FOR ZANESVILLE AND MORGANTOWN. MENTIONED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FOR THURSDAY NIGHT PERIOD...ALTHOUGH THEY COULD BEGIN TO FIRE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AS TODAY. ETA AND AVN SHOW STRONG COLD FRONT FROM GREAT LAKES MOVING THROUGH THE HEAD OF THE OHIO REGION FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS COULD RESULT IN A SQUALL LINE...SO WENT LIKELY THUNDERSTORMS WITH MENTION OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS...DUE TO FASTER WINDS ALOFT. SPC DAY 3 OUTLOOK HAS GOOD DISCUSSION ON THIS. LEFT MENTION OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY NIGHT FOR COUNTIES SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. AFTER THAT...DRIER AIR SHOULD GIVE DRY CONDITIONS WITH SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES INTO MIDWEEK. ...GIORDANO .PBZ... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE.
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 38 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:50 UTC.
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
- Heat in New York, August 8 to 10, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, August 8, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, August 8, 2001
- Heat in North Carolina, August 8, 2001
- Heat in Texas, August 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, August 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 8, 2001
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, August 8, 2001
- Heat in New York, August 8 to 9, 2001
More
Every storm in West Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, August 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: 5265630.