Thunderstorm Wind, Lancaster
- When
- July 19, 4:55 PM EST
- Where
- Lancaster County, Buck
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 39.867, -76.233
Large limbs and power lines were down in Buck.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 19, 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 Jul 19, 11:55 AM EST, 5 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 11:55 AM EST, 5 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1255 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2002 ...WORK ZONES BY 330 PM... ...ZONES BY 4 PM... ...CHANGES... CURRENT FCST NOT BAD. WILL EDGE TEMPS UP SOME FOR PERIOD SAT INTO TUE. ...DISC... ...SHORT TERM... CAPE SUCH THAT STORMS ARE POPING UP NOW. MOST OF THE REAL ACTIVE WX OUT OF THE CWA SO FAR...WILL MAKE THIS SHORT. SOME STORMS UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT. FRONT WILL SAG INTO AREA LATER TONIGHT...MAINLY AS A WIND SHIFT/DEWPOINT LINE. ONLY A FEW DEGREES COOLER ON SAT...WITH LESS HUMIDITY. SOME CU LIKELY...AS NO REAL GOOD PUSH OF DRY AIR OR SINKING MOTION. ...LONG TERM... AS NOTED ON WEATHER WORLD LAST NIGHT...SOME POTENTIAL FOR HEAVIER CONVECTION EARLY NEXT WEEK. RIDGE BUILDS IN BY LATE SUNDAY...AND VERY STRONG PUSH OF KILLER TYPE HEAT/HUMIDITY MOVES TOWARD THE AREA FROM THE WEST ON MONDAY. VERY STRONG FLOW ACROSS NORTHERN TIER STATES...WITH DEEP POCKET OF COLD AIR WELL TO THE NORTH...FOR WHAT IS NORMALLY THE HOTTEST WEEK OF THE SUMMER. ANYWAY...IF AVN IS RIGHT...SYSTEM COMING ACROSS TUE WILL HAVE THE CHC TO FIRE OF ABNORMALLY INTENSE STORMS. SLIGHTLY COOLER WEATHER BEHIND THIS...BEFORE NEXT WARMUP. WILL TAKE LOOK AT SREFS. .CTP...NONE. MARTIN
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 West Virginia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 19, 2002
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, July 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: 5304715.