Hail, Centre
- When
- April 28, 3:45 PM EST
- Where
- Centre County, State College
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Reported by
- METEOROLOGIST(NON NWS)
- Coordinates
- 40.783, -77.850
Hen egg sized hail was reported near Nittany Mall in State College.
Hail in Pennsylvania, April 28, 2002
1 hail, 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 Apr 28, 11:45 AM EST, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 11:45 AM EST, 4 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE 1245 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 WILL UPDATE AS NEEDED. ...DISC... ...SHORT TERM... AS EXPECTED...DRY PUNCH PUSHING OUR AREA...WITH DECENT AMT OF SUN AND HEATING...AS LOW TRACKS NORTH OF C PA. SO FAR...BINOVC LIMITED...ALONG WITH MAX TEMPS...BUT IT IS ONLY EARLY AFT. AS WITH MAY 83 EVENT...CLEARING AREA TRYING TO SNEAK TO THE N OF US...OFF LAKE ERIE. STILL PARAMETERS IN PLACE FOR SEVERE WEATHER...EXPECT ACTION TO MOVE IN/FIRE UP EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON...AND LINGER INTO LATE AFTERNOON ...EARLY EVENING. LINE OF STORMS TO THE WEST FILLING IN...SOME NASTY STORMS OUT THERE. ...LONG TERM... CURRENT EXTENDED SIMILAR TO WHAT I HAD YESTERDAY AND LOOKS GOOD. ...OTHER... SPS...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR ALL OF CENTRAL PA. .CTP...NONE. MARTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 1:33 PM EST, 2 hours 12 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>026-033-034-037-041-042-045-046- 290000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 233 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... TIOGA...WARREN...MCKEAN...POTTER...ELK...CAMERON...LYCOMING... SULLIVAN...CLINTON...CENTRE...CLEARFIELD...BLAIR...HUNTINGDON... CAMBRIA...BEDFORD AND SOMERSET. WARM...MOIST AIR IN PLACE OVER THE COMMONWEALTH WILL BE MET BY A COLD FRONT ADVANCING FROM THE NORTHWEST THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL PUSH INTO AND THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MOUNTAINS THROUGH SUNSET. THE STORMS THAT HAVE FORMED DO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CREATE TORNADOES...AS WELL AS DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PORTION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. THE TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT. STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE TO KEEP ABREAST OF POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS. DANGELO
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 3:10 PM EST, 35 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>026-033-034-037-041-042-045-046- 290000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 410 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... TIOGA...WARREN...MCKEAN...POTTER...ELK...CAMERON...LYCOMING... SULLIVAN...CLINTON...CENTRE...CLEARFIELD...BLAIR...HUNTINGDON...CAMBR IA...BEDFORD...SOMERSET AND SULLIVAN. WARM...MOIST AIR IN PLACE OVER THE COMMONWEALTH WILL BE MET BY A COLD FRONT ADVANCING FROM THE NORTHWEST THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL PUSH INTO AND THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MOUNTAINS THROUGH SUNSET. THE STORMS THAT HAVE FORMED DO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CREATE TORNADOES...AS WELL AS DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PORTION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. THE TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT. STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE TO KEEP ABREAST OF POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS. CORRECTED TO ADD SULLIVAN COUNTY TO THE WATCH. DANGELO/JUNG
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 3:16 PM EST, 29 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>026-033-034-037-041-042-045-046- 290000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 416 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... TIOGA...WARREN...MCKEAN...POTTER...ELK...CAMERON...LYCOMING... SULLIVAN...CLINTON...CENTRE...CLEARFIELD...BLAIR...HUNTINGDON...CAMBR IA...BEDFORD...SOMERSET AND SULLIVAN. WARM...MOIST AIR IN PLACE OVER THE COMMONWEALTH WILL BE MET BY A COLD FRONT ADVANCING FROM THE NORTHWEST THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL PUSH INTO AND THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MOUNTAINS THROUGH SUNSET. THE STORMS THAT HAVE FORMED DO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CREATE TORNADOES...AS WELL AS DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PORTION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. THE TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT. STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE TO KEEP ABREAST OF POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS. CORRECTED TO ADD SULLIVAN COUNTY TO THE WATCH. DANGELO/JUNG
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 20 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:42 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maryland, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes in Illinois, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes in Kentucky, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kentucky, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, April 28, 2002
- Tornado in Illinois, April 28, 2002
- Tornado in Ohio, April 28, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maryland, April 28, 2002
- Tornado in Illinois, April 28, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, April 28, 2002
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, April 2002
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: 5285607.