Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 12, 2002
Start: 2002-08-12T13:50
End: 2002-08-12T14:15
Location: Pennsylvania

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $42,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 12, 2:40 AM EST, 11 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 2:40 AM EST, 11 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
340 AM EDT MON AUG 12 2002

MDLS INDICATE HEALTHY AMOUNT OF MID/LOW LVL MSTR TO AID IN AFTN
CONVECTION ACRS CWA.  ATTM SAT PIT SHOWS LEFTOVER DEBRIS CLOUDS ACRS
LG PTN OF THE STATE FROM TSTMS LAST EVG TO OUR SOUTH AND WEST.  MDLS
SHOW WK FORCING TDA AND WITH MSTR WL KP TSTM CHANCES IN FOR THE
DAY.  BLV BEST CHCS WL BE FROM MFD/MNN ENE THRU CAK AND YNG AREAS SO
WL BOOST FROM 40 TO 50% THERE.  GVN THE SEASON OVC SHOULD BREAK SO
WL GO WITH PC.  FOR TNGT NO BIG CHGS ALTHOUGH WL GO WITH PC AGAIN
SINCE FOCUS OF LIFT WL BE TO OUR WEST WITH THE ACPHG CDFNT.  CWA
SHOULD BE IN AREA OF SUBSIDENCE.  FOR TUES...CDFNT NEARING BUT
SLOWING.  STILL WL INCR TSTM CHCS TO 50% AREA WIDE GVN GOOD MOIST
850MB SWLY INFLOW.  HAVE BACKED OFF CLOUDY WORDING IN FAVOR OF
MOSTLY CLOUDY.  DOESNT SEEM LIKE MUCH BUT MC ALLOWS FOR BKN SS
WHICH I THINK WE CAN GET FROM TIME TO TIME.  AND...SINCE WL RMN IN
THE WARM SECTOR AHD OF CDFNT THRU THE DAY...IT COULD END UP BEING
MORE THAN THAT.  GVN PROXIMITY OF BNDRY TUES NIGHT AND GVN AVN PROGS
OF MSTR...ETC...HARD TO HOLD OFF LIKLY POPS AT LEAST WEST SO WILL GO
WITH A 60% THERE.  CHC POPS ELSEWHERE UNTIL WED WHERE LKLY SEEMS
REASONABLE.  FOR EXTENDED...WILL BACK OFF POPS ON FRI GVN LOOK AT
MRF/AVN RH PROGS...BUT DVLPG TROF TO OUR WEST CREATES A PTTN THAT
SHOULD INCR MSTR/INSTBY FOR SAT AND SUN SO WL ADD CHC POPS THERE.
NEW MRF ALSO BACKS THIS UP...SPCLY FOR SAT.

MISCLE IS OUT.

.CLE...
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.

TK

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:49 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Crawford

When: August 12, 1:50 PM EST
Where: Crawford County, Conneaut Lake
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.600, -80.300

Nickel size hail was observed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Crawford

When: August 12, 2:15 PM EST
Where: Crawford County, Spartansburg
Property damage: $40,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 41.833, -79.700

Thunderstorm winds downed four trees. One home was damaged by fallen trees. A second home lost a section of roof.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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.

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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: 5313300, 5313301.