Hail in Pennsylvania, May 25, 2002

Name: Hail in Pennsylvania, May 25, 2002
Start: 2002-05-25T21:30
End: 2002-05-25T21:30
Location: Pennsylvania

May 25, 2002 · NWS CTP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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 May 25, 7:45 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 7:45 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE
845 PM EDT SAT MAY 25 2002

PRECIP HOLDING JUST TO OUR NORTH/WEST ATTM...BUT WARREN CO IS CLOSE
TO GETTING A TSTM W/IN THE HOUR. IMMEDIATE PRE-STORM STABILITY
LOOKS LIKE IT WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS...AS
WE HAVE LOST OUR SS AND THE MSTR FLOW INTO THE NRN SECTION OF THE
SQUALL LINE LOOKS RATHER MEAGER...WITH KBFD DWPT 49...KDUJ 54. PER
COORD W/SPC...WE DO NOT (ATTM) ANTICIPATE AN EXTENSION/EXPANSION OF
A SVR WW INTO THE CWA. WHILE THE STORMS MAY CONTINUE TO ROLL IN...
THEY WL MOST LIKELY WEAKEN (CONSIDERABLY?) AS THEY DO SO.

CURRENT FORECAST IS GREAT...AND ONLY ENVISION SOME TWEAKS TO THE
WORDS IN FIRST PD...BARRING UNFORSEEN STRENGTHENING OF THE STORMS.

WRK ZNS IN A FEW.

.CTP...NONE.

DANGELO

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:30 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Warren

When: May 25, 9:30 PM EST
Where: Warren County, 3 mi W of Sugar Grove
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 41.983, -79.417

Penny sized hail was reported 3 miles west of Sugar Grove.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5292804.