Thunderstorm Wind, Huntingdon
- When
- July 23, 1:35 PM EST
- Where
- Huntingdon County, Huntingdon
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.500, -78.017
Trees and wires were down in Huntingdon.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 23, 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 23, 8:15 AM EST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 8:15 AM EST, 5 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 915 AM EDT TUE JUL 23 2002 QUICK UPDATE TO ACCOUNT FOR CLOUD/TEMP OBSERVATIONS. NEW GUIDANCE FROM SPC HAS A LARGER PART OF CWA IN SLIGHT RISK SO WILL TINT WORDING TOWARDS STRONG STORMS FOR CENTRAL AREAS AS WELL. NO CHANGES LATER PERIODS. DIRIENZO ...PREVIOUS AFD... AS OF 08Z...REGIONAL RADAR SHOWING A BROKEN LINE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS WITH CDFRONT CROSSING LK ERIE. EXPECT RADAR TO FILL IN LATER TODAY AS FRONT MOVES INTO VERY WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER CENTRAL PA. DWPTS ALREADY NEAR 70F AND IR IMAGERY SUGGESTS A GOOD DEAL OF MORNING SUNSHINE FOR EASTERN SECTIONS...WHICH SHOULD PUSH TEMPS OVER 90F ONCE AGAIN FROM MDT SOUTH. INSTABILITY APPEARS GREAT ENOUGH FOR ISOLATED SVR TODAY. HOWEVER...BIGGER THREAT MAY BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...DUE TO HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES AND WEAK MID-UPPER LVL FLOW. FRONT SAGS SOUTH TONIGHT...BRINGING AND END TO SHOWERS/STORMS IN THE SOUTH...AND CLEARING SKIES FURTHER NORTH. SFC HIGH PRES THEN PASSES TO OUR NORTH FOR MID WEEK...BRINGING CLEARING AND DRIER CONDITIONS TO PA...WHILE HEAT AND HUMIDITY REMAIN JUST TO THE SOUTH. MODEL ENSEMBLE DATA SUGGESTING A CHANCE OF RAIN THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY AS WAVE OF LOW PRES RIDES EASTWARD ALONG FRONT...STILL LYING JUST TO OUR SOUTH ACROSS N VIRGINIA. MED RANGE ENSEMBLE DATA SUGGESTS WARM AND HUMID WX RETURNS OVER THE WEEKEND WITH SW FLOW AND 850 TEMPS BACK TO ARND 17C. .CTP...SPS FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE STORMS LOWER SUSQ VALLEY. FITZGERALD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 10:33 AM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
PAZ012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053-056>059- 063>066-232230- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1133 AM EDT TUE JUL 23 2002 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS MOST OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. A STRONG COLD FRONT...MOVING THROUGH EXTREME NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AT NOON WILL PUSH INTO SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL STRENGTHEN ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN THE HOT AND HUMID AIRMASS...AND SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE GREATEST RISK FOR LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH...AND HAIL IS BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 2 PM AND 5 PM ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MOUNTAINS...AND FROM 4 TO 8 PM OVER THE CENTRAL AND LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. ANOTHER CONCERN WILL BE LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS...SINCE THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE RATHER SLOW MOVING. SIGNIFICANT PONDING AND PERHAPS MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS COULD OCCUR...ESPECIALLY WHERE SEVERAL STORMS MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA AND DUMP UP TO 2 INCHES WITHIN AN HOUR OR SO. . STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. LAMBERT/MCPHEE
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:33 AM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
PAZ012-017>019-024>028-033>036-041-042-045-046-049>053-056>059- 063>066-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1233 PM EDT TUE JUL 23 2002 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... MONTOUR... YORK... SOMERSET... FRANKLIN... LANCASTER... CUMBERLAND... BEDFORD... LEBANON... DAUPHIN... PERRY... JUNIATA... HUNTINGDON... BLAIR... MIFFLIN... SNYDER... SCHUYLKILL... CENTRE... CLINTON... LYCOMING... FULTON... NORTHUMBERLAND... CLEARFIELD... COLUMBIA... CAMBRIA... ADAMS... SULLIVAN AND UNION. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:36 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
- Rip Current in Florida, July 23, 2002
- Rip Current in North Carolina, July 23, 2002
- Heat in California, July 23, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 23, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Maine, July 23, 2002
- Flash Flood in Alaska, July 23, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 23, 2002
- Dust Storm and Damaging Winds in Arizona, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 23, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 23, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 23, 2002
More
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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: 5304718.