Thunderstorm Wind, Brooke
- When
- May 31, 5:30 PM EST
- Where
- Brooke County, Follansbee
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.333, -80.583
Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 31, 2002
3 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
- $11,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 31, 2:10 PM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:10 PM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 310 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002 SEVERE POTENTIAL REMAINS ACROSS THE HEAD OF THE OHIO REGION THIS EVENING. INITIAL STORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST PA ARE NOW IN WATCH BOX 359...BUT SPC CONCURS WITH ETA PROJECTIONS OF POTENTIAL RAPID DEVELOPMENT NEAR I-80 LATE THIS AFTERNOON...SPREADING SOUTHWARD INTO EAST CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTHWEST PA THIS EVENING. THESE LATTER STORMS MAY BECOME PARALLEL TO THE UPPER FLOW NEAR THE MASON-DIXON LINE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL IN THOSE COUNTIES. FOR REST OF FORECAST...FAVORED ETA INTO DAY2 SUNDAY...THEN AVN AND MRF FOR DAYS3-7. LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS CAN BREAK OUT SATURDAY NIGHT. AS THE MRF SHOWS SEVERAL SHORT WAVES BEING EJECTED OUT OF THE SPLIT UPPER FLOW OUT WEST...THERE CAN MORE ORGANIZED BANDS OF STORMS LATE SUNDAY...TUESDAY AND THURSDAY. TEMPERATURE FORECAST BASED ON A BLEND OF NGM/ETA/AVN/MRF ENSEMBLE MOS. ...GIORDANO .PBZ... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 2:08 PM EST, 3 hours 22 minutes before
PAZ007>009-013>016-022-010000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 308 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN PENNSYLVANIA... ARMSTRONG BUTLER CLARION FOREST JEFFERSON LAWRENCE MERCER VENANGO
Special weather statement, May 31, 2:12 PM EST, 3 hours 18 minutes before
OHZ039>041-010100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 312 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN OHIO... CARROLL COLUMBIANA TUSCARAWAS
Special weather statement, May 31, 4:01 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ014-020>023-029>032- WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-010300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 501 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN PENNSYLVANIA... ALLEGHENY ARMSTRONG BEAVER BUTLER FAYETTE GREENE INDIANA WASHINGTON WESTMORELAND IN WEST VIRGINIA... BROOKE HANCOCK MARION MARSHALL MONONGALIA OHIO PRESTON TUCKER WETZEL IN OHIO... BELMONT CARROLL COLUMBIANA COSHOCTON GUERNSEY HARRISON JEFFERSON MONROE MUSKINGUM NOBLE TUSCARAWAS IN MARYLAND... GARRETT
Local storm report, May 31, 5:10 PM EST, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
610 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0405 PM POLK PA WIND DAMAGE
05/31/02 VENANGO TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER
0420 PM SHARON PA .88 INCH HAIL
05/31/02 MERCER REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTERS
0425 PM SHARON PA 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/31/02 MERCER REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
0430 PM SIGEL PA WIND DAMAGE
05/31/02 JEFFERSON LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY POLICE
0530 PM PEKIN OH .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/02 CARROLL REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTER
0610 PM BADEN PA 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/31/02 BEAVER REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTERThe radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 38 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:29 UTC.
Event by event
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Marshall
- When
- May 31, 7:05 PM EST
- Where
- Marshall County, Mt Olivet
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.017, -80.667
Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
Thunderstorm Wind, Wetzel
- When
- May 31, 7:20 PM EST
- Where
- Wetzel County, Paden City
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 39.600, -80.933
Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, May 31, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, May 31, 2002
- Tornado in New York, May 31, 2002
- Rip Current in North Carolina, May 31, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in New York, May 31, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 31, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in New Hampshire, May 31, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Maine, May 31, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in California, May 31, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, May 31, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, May 31, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 31, 2002
More
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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: 5299474, 5299475, 5299476.