Thunderstorm Wind, Erie
- When
- June 27, 12:30 PM EST
- Where
- Erie County, Harborcreek
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 42.167, -79.883
Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 27, 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
- $2,000
- 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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 27, 2:30 AM EST, 10 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:30 AM EST, 10 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 330 AM EDT THU JUN 27 2002 FNT SHD BE THRU NW OH BY 18Z SO XPCT JUST SCT SHWRS/TSTMS THERE. RMNDR OF AREA LIKELY. RAISED TEMPS FM GUID..MID 80S IN NW AND U80S ELSEWHERE. REST OF FCST LOOKS RSNBL...SHWRS LINGERING IN SE SXN ERY OTRW PTCLDY ACRS THE AREA. THEN MSNY AND LESS HUMID AND WARM FRI. .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE.
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:28 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
- Lightning Strike in New York, June 27, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, June 27, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Massachusetts, June 27, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 27, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, June 27, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in New York, June 27, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 27, 2002
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 27, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 27, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, June 27, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, June 27, 2002
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, June 27, 2002
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, June 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: 5305342.