Thunderstorm Wind, Crawford
- When
- July 28, 2:50 PM EST
- Where
- Crawford County, Meadville
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.633, -80.150
Thunderstorm winds downed a lot of trees in the Meadville and Saegertown areas.
Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 28, 2002
7 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $80,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
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 Jul 28, 1:20 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 1:20 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 220 PM EDT SUN JUL 28 2002 PAST FEW 88D VOL SCANS SHOWG PRECIP TO W DECREASING IN INTENSITY AND COVERAGE. INSTABILITY RMNS HI BUT MSAS ANAL SHOWG LLTL IN WAY OF LLVL CONV ATTM. MORE CONVECTION JUST ABT TO MOV INTO IN. DECENT LLVL WLY JET THIS EVENING BUT 7H TEMPS WARM OVRNGT WITH SUM DRYING AFT MID AS WELL. CAPES RMN NR 1000 J/KG THIS EVE AND WL HANG ON TO SCT WORDG NRN 1/2 OF FA THRU MID TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY NEW CONVECTION THAT FIRES AND FOR STUFF CURRENTLY MOVING INTO IN. FURTHER S JUST SML CHC POPS. BETTER THREAT FOR TSRA OCCURS TMRW AFT AS CDFNT APPROACHES FM NW. WL ALSO GET SUM HELP FM RR QUAD OF UPPER JET AND IMPULSE MOVING THRU AT 5H. MAY GET A LINE OF CONVECTION BUT FOR NOW WL JUST WORD FOR HI CHC POPS ALL AREAS. PRECIP THREAT WL LINGER INTO 3RD PD BUT RAPID DRYING OCCURS LATER IN NGT. COOLER AND LESS HUMID WX ON TUE. GUID TEMPS IN BALLPARK AGN TDA. .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. KUBINA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:51 UTC.
Event by event
7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Erie
- When
- July 28, 4:25 PM EST
- Where
- Erie County, Edinboro
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.867, -80.133
Dime size hail was observed near the intersection of Interstate 79 and U.S. Route 6N.
Thunderstorm Wind, Erie
- When
- July 28, 4:30 PM EST
- Where
- Erie County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 42.050, -80.117
Thunderstorm winds downed several trees across the western portion of the county.
Thunderstorm Wind, Erie
- When
- July 28, 4:45 PM EST
- Where
- Erie County, Corry
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.917, -79.633
Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm Wind, Crawford
- When
- July 28, 5:20 PM EST to 5:21 PM EST
- Where
- Crawford County, Meadville
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.633, -80.150
Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees and several limbs.
Thunderstorm Wind, Crawford
- When
- July 28, 5:20 PM EST
- Where
- Crawford County, Blooming Vly
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.683, -80.050
Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and limbs.
Thunderstorm Wind, Crawford
- When
- July 28, 6:30 PM EST
- Where
- Crawford County, Atlantic
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.500, -80.350
Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm Wind, Erie
- When
- July 28, 10:30 PM EST
- Where
- Erie County, Union City
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 41.900, -79.850
Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and large limbs.
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.
- 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
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- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 28, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 28, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, July 28, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 28, 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: 5307390, 5307395, 5307396, 5307391, 5307389, 5307392, 5307394, 5307393.