Name: Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 27, 2002
Start: 2002-06-27T15:05
End: 2002-06-27T15:05
Location: Pennsylvania

Where it happened

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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 Jun 27, 3:05 PM EST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:05 PM EST, 0 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE
315 PM THU JUN 27 2002

AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CWA. HEAVY RAIN HAS
BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN THREAT AS ONLY WEAK TO MDT
SHEAR IN PLACE WITHIN THE WARM MOIST AMS. SOME GUSTY WINDS AND
SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE STORMS AS WELL BUT NOTHING
ABOVE SEVERE CRIT HAS BEEN OBSERVED SO FAR THIS AFTN.

TRICKY PART OF FCST IS TIMING OF END OF THE PCPN. AT THIS POINT
EXPECT MOST OF THE SIG PCPN TO HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF NW AND
CENTRAL PA BY 00Z. WITH LINGERING TSTMS OVER MIDDLE AND LOWER SUSQ
INTO MID EVENING. WILL KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE NW AND CHANCE POPS
SERN HALF OF CWA FOR PCPN THIS EVENING.

FRI AND WEEKEND CONTINUE TO LOOK NICE...MUCH DRIER AND A BIT COOLER
TO START...THEN WARMING UP BY SUN. EARLY NEXT WEEK WILL PUT US BACK
IN THE SOUP HEAT AND HUMIDITY WISE.

.CTP...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #479 TIL 8PM FOR ALL OF CENTRAL PA.

GARTNER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:45 PM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes before

PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053-
056>059-063>066-280000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
145 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT THIS
EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

MCKEAN...MONTOUR...YORK...SOMERSET...FRANKLIN...LANCASTER...
CUMBERLAND...BEDFORD...LEBANON...DAUPHIN...PERRY...JUNIATA...
HUNTINGDON...BLAIR...MIFFLIN...SNYDER...SCHUYLKILL...SOUTHERN
CENTRE...SOUTHERN CLINTON...WARREN...TIOGA...NORTHERN LYCOMING...
FULTON...NORTHUMBERLAND...CLEARFIELD...NORTHERN CENTRE...SOUTHERN
LYCOMING...COLUMBIA...CAMERON...CAMBRIA...ADAMS...POTTER...ELK...
NORTHERN CLINTON...SULLIVAN AND UNION.

DEVOIR

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 29 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:04 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Centre

When: June 27, 3:05 PM EST
Where: Centre County, Centre Hall
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.850, -77.667

Trees were reported down in Centre Hall.

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

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: 5294723.