Thunderstorm Wind, Centre
- When
- August 12, 6:45 PM EST
- Where
- Centre County, State College
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.783, -77.850
Trees and wires were down in State College.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 12, 2002
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 Aug 12, 12:35 PM EST, 6 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 12:35 PM EST, 6 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 135 PM EDT MON AUG 12 2002 ...WORK ZONES OUT BY 330 PM... ...ZONES BY 4 PM... CURRENT FCST NOT BAD...MAINLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. ...DISC... ...SHORT TERM... WEAK DISTURBANCE FROM THE OHIO VALLEY WILL BRING CHC OF SHOWERS AND STORMS TO THE THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. A FEW THE SHOWERS MIGHT PERSIST AS LATE AS EARLY TUE AM...MAINLY ALONG THE NY BORDER. WIND SHEAR NOT VERY GOOD...THUS SEVERE NOT LIKELY. ESTIMATED VIL WOULD BE MID 50S. REAL DRY OUT...HYDRO NOT A CONCERN...AS THINGS WILL MOVE...BUT SLOWLY. BEST CHC OF SEEING RAIN WILL BE N AND W SECTIONS. JUST BELOW HEAT ADVISORY FOR SUSQ VLY NEXT FEW DAYS. ...LONG TERM... BEST CHC FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS STILL LOOKS TO BE THU...AS WEAKENING FRONT NEARS. SHOWERS MIGHT LINGER NOW INTO THU NIGHT. WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THE SAT THROUGH MONDAY PERIOD. MID AND LONG RANGE SOLUTIONS SHOWING SOME VARIATION EACH DAY...SO WILL HAVE TO SEE WHAT NCEP BRINGS TO LIGHT. .CTP...NONE. MARTIN
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 20 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:47 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 Maryland, August 12 to 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kansas, August 12 to 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 12 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strikes in Wisconsin, August 12, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kansas, August 12, 2002
- Tornado in Missouri, August 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 12, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 12, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Iowa, August 12, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 12, 2002
- Heat in Virginia, August 12 to 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, August 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: 5311657.