Thunderstorm Wind, Lancaster
- When
- May 13, 7:30 PM EST
- Where
- Lancaster County, Lancaster
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.067, -76.300
Trees were down in Lancaster.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 13, 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 May 13, 2:00 PM EST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:00 PM EST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE 300 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002 OVERALL EVOLUTION OF THINGS CONTINUES ON EXPECTED PATH. WARM MUGGY UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER CWA TODAY WILL BE REPLACED BY MUCH COLDER AIRMASS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY AHEAD OF FRONT OVER SE HALF OF CWA WITH FAR SE COUNTIES UNDER TORNADO WATCH THIS AFT/EVE. MUCH COLDER AIR OVER CWA TOMORROW. IT WILL FEEL LIKE AN EARLY SPRING DAY WITH RAIN SHOWERS (POSSIBLY MIXING WITH WET SNOWFLAKES NORTHERN MOUNTAINS) AND COLD GUSTY WINDS. COLD AIR IS SHORT LIVED AS H850 TEMPS REBOUND QUICKLY ON WEDNESDAY AND STRONG WARM ADVECTION LIKELY THURSDAY AHEAD OF NEXT FRONT. MAY BE A FEW RW/TRW AROUND ON LATE THURSDAY. EXTENDED...WEEKEND LOOKS WET NOW. MRF HINTS AT ANOTHER SOAKER FOR AN ALREADY WATER-LOGGED AREA. .CTP...FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR ALL OF CTRL PA. TORNADO WATCH SOUTHEAST COUNTIES TIL 7PM. DIRIENZO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 13, 4:18 PM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
PAZ057-059-064>066-132130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 518 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... YORK...LANCASTER...LEBANON...DAUPHIN AND ADAMS. JL
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 13, 2002
- Flooding in Alaska, May 13 to 21, 2002
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Flood in Pennsylvania, May 13 to 14, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 13, 2002
- Wildfire in California, May 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, May 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: 5292799.