Thunderstorm Wind, Clinton
- When
- July 28, 12:20 PM EST
- Where
- Clinton County, Woolrich
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 41.200, -77.383
Trees were down in Woolrich.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 28, 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 28, 10:00 AM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 10:00 AM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1100 AM EDT SUN JUL 28 2002 UPDATED AGAIN MAINLY TO CLEAN UP MORN/AFTN WORDING. NO CHANGES BEYOND FIRST PD. CORRECTION. SPS REISSUED FOR ENTIRE CWA FOR POTENTIAL SEVERE. .CTP...SPS (SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT) FOR ENTIRE CFA. GARTNER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 6:21 AM EST, 5 hours 59 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>035-037-041-042-045-046- 049>053-058-281815- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 721 AM EDT SUN JUL 28 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND PARTS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY EARLY THIS MORNING. HOT AND HUMID AIR IS IN PLACE ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. THIS MUGGY AIRMASS WILL INTERACT WITH THE LEFT OVER WIND SHIFT BOUNDARIES FROM THE EARLY MORNING CONVECTION TO PRODUCE RATHER NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT. TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 80S TO MID 90S...ALONG WITH INCREASING AND VEERING WINDS IN THE LOW TO MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...WILL HELP TO INTENSIFY THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SOME BECOMING SEVERE. ALTHOUGH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL COME IN THE FORM OF A DAMAGING WIND GUST AROUND 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OF OVER 2 INCHES...AND RAPID RISES IN STREAMS AND CREEKS...COULD OCCUR IN PLACES THAT RECEIVE 2 OR 3 THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS...AND POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES OR WARNINGS. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/CTP LAMBERT/LIPTON
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 10:44 AM EST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-282245- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1144 AM EDT SUN JUL 28 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... HOT AND HUMID AIR IS IN PLACE ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN THIS MUGGY AIRMASS THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT. HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 80S TO MID 90S...ALONG WITH INCREASING AND VEERING WINDS IN THE LOW TO MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...WILL HELP TO INTENSIFY THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SOME BECOMING SEVERE. ALTHOUGH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL COME IN THE FORM OF A DAMAGING WIND GUST AROUND 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OF OVER 2 INCHES...AND RAPID RISES IN STREAMS AND CREEKS...COULD OCCUR IN PLACES THAT RECEIVE 2 OR 3 THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS...AND POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES OR WARNINGS. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY. BUDD
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:21 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, July 28 to 29, 2002
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 28 to 30, 2002
- Heat in Maryland, July 28 to 30, 2002
- Tornado in New York, July 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 28, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 28, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, July 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in New York, July 28, 2002
- 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
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: 5304722.