Pennsylvania, 2002Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 27, 2002
June 27, 2002 · NWS CTP · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $250,000
- 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, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:05 PM EST, 1 hour 40 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, 4 hours before
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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
Thunderstorm Wind, Lebanon
- When
- June 27, 4:45 PM EST
- Where
- Lebanon County, Fredericksburg
- Measured
- 100 kt (115 mph)
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 40.450, -76.433
Straight line winds caused damage in Lebanon County as determined by a NWS Storm Survey Team. Wind speeds were estimated between 90 and 100 mph. Damage, which occurred between 5:45 pm and 5:50 pm local time, took place in a path 3 miles wide by 4 miles long. Most of the damage occurred in the town of Fredericksburg. Hundereds of trees were downed, and hail the size of golfballs (1.75 inch) was observed. At the Farmers Pride Airport, 2 airplane hangers were damaged and 5 aircraft were destroyed.
- 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.
- Lightning Strike in New York, June 27, 20021 death · 1 injured · 1 event
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, June 27, 20021 death · 1 event
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Massachusetts, June 27, 2002$687,000 · 50 kt wind · 9 events
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 27, 2002$400,000 · 50 kt wind · 9 events
- Damaging Winds in New York, June 27, 2002$241,000 · 56 kt wind · 18 events
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in New York, June 27, 2002$180,000 · 11 events
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 27, 20024 injured · $50,000 · 55 kt wind · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 27, 20021 injured · $44,000 · 50 kt wind · 11 events
- Lightning Strike in New York, June 27, 2002$101,000 · 1 event
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, June 27, 2002$75,000 · 3 events
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, June 27, 2002$50,000 · 1 event
- Lightning Strike in Vermont, June 27, 2002$50,000 · 1 event
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: 5294728.