Thunderstorm Wind, Mifflin
- When
- May 14, 4:25 PM EST
- Where
- Mifflin County, Lewistown
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.600, -77.567
Trees were down in Lewisburg.
Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 14, 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 14, 1:00 PM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 1:00 PM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE 200 PM EDT TUE MAY 14 2002 COLD POOL ALOFT TRANSITING REGION TODAY. INSTABILITY RW/TRW HAVE DEVELOPED AND ARE MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF ENTIRE CWA. SOME PEA-SIZED HAIL ON DECK HERE WITH A TRW EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPS RANGE FROM LOW 40S NORTHWEST TO UPPER 50S SOUTHEAST. WINDS WEST TO NORTHWEST AND GUSTY. TIGHT CYCLONIC FLOW REMAINS WITH US THROUGH THIS EVENING. WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE AND SHOWERS SHOULD DISSIPATE AFTER DARK. MODELS INDICATE DRYING AFTER MIDNIGHT SO CLOUDS SHOULD BREAK UP LEAVING MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES BY MORNING. SOME CU WILL POP UP TOMORROW MORNING AS MOISTURE GET MIXED UPWARD FROM WET SOIL...BUT MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW INVERSION CRASHING DOWN BELOW H850 DURING AFTERNOON. CU WILL BREAK UP LATE MORNING/EARLY AFTERNOON AND TEMPS WILL REBOUND NICELY TO 60-70F RANGE UNDER WARM MAY SUN. THU LOOKS GOOD TO START. BALMY SW WINDS ADVECT WARMTH INTO AREA SO TEMPS SHOULD CLIMD WELL INTO 70S. FRONT APPROACHES FROM NORTHWEST AND MAY TOUCH OFF RW/TRW LATE ON THU OVER NW ZONES. FRONT SLOWS FOR FRI AND ALLOWS WAVE TO RIDE ALONG IT ACROSS PA. MORE SUBSTANTIAL RAINFALL LIKELY ON FRIDAY-EARLY SAT WITH SYSTEM. MORE COLD WINDY WEATHER TO FOLLOW FOR EXTENDED. .CTP...NONE. DIRIENZO
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:27 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
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 14, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Maryland, May 14, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 14, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, May 14, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 14, 2002
- High Wind in New York, May 14, 2002
- Flooding in Arkansas, May 14 to 24, 2002
- Flooding in Tennessee, May 14 to 24, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 14, 2002
- Damaging Wind in District of Columbia, May 14, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 14, 2002
- Tornado in Florida, May 14, 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: 5292803.