Name: Hail in Pennsylvania, August 27, 2003
Start: 2003-08-27T09:15
End: 2003-08-27T09:15
Location: Pennsylvania

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 27, 2:17 AM EST, 6 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 2:17 AM EST, 6 hours 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
317 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003

WITH COLD FRONT STILL IN MICHIGAN, AND NO NEW GUIDANCE, THERE IS LTL TO
CHANGE. I DID UP POPS TODAY TO 50% FROM PIT SEWD, AND 40% NW OF PIT. IT
IS A LTL HIER THAN MY NEIGHBORS, BUT WITHIN THE 20% WINDOW PERMITTED.
LOOKS LIKE FRONT WILL FINALLY REACH MASON DIXON LINE BY MIDNIGHT
TONIGHT. KEPT THE IDEA OF SHWRS/TSTMS ALONG MY SRN TIER TIL MIDN. EVERY
TSTM SEEMS TO BE SVR WITH HAIL OR WIND OR FLOOD.

MAY NEED TO CONSIDER FLOOD WATCH. TRAINING THAT OCCURRED EARLIER S OF
CLE IS MOVING SE. WL WATCH AND SEE IF IT STRETCHES OUT AND STARTS
TRAINING IN MY CWA.

.PBZ...
MD...NONE.
OH...NONR.
PA...NONE.
WV...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 27, 5:35 AM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before

MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023-
029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-271230-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
635 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...EAST
CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THE PRIMARY
THREAT IS FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. THERE IS ALSO A RISK OF
FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN EASTERN OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...AND
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA FROM JUST NORTH TO PITTSBURGH...SOUTHWARD.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA ON FRIDAY WHICH MAY
RESULT IN STRONG THUNDERSTORMS.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 27, 8:38 AM EST, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
938 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0715 AM    MCMECHEN                  WV   FLOOD
08/27/03   MARSHALL                       NUMEROUS BASEMENTS FLOODED

WWR

Special weather statement, Aug 27, 8:50 AM EST, 25 minutes before

PAZ014>016-020>023-029>032-271900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
950 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM EDT WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN PENNSYLVANIA...

  ALLEGHENY       ARMSTRONG       BEAVER          BUTLER
  CLARION         FAYETTE         GREENE          INDIANA
  JEFFERSON       WASHINGTON      WESTMORELAND

Local storm report, Aug 27, 8:51 AM EST, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
951 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0945 AM    MCMURRAY                  PA   FLOOD
08/27/03   WASHINGTON                     WATER OVER SUGAR CREEK
                                          ROAD. 0.58INCHES OF RAIN IN
                                          15 MINUTES.

WWR

Local storm report, Aug 27, 8:57 AM EST, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
957 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0945 AM    HICKORY                   PA   0.88 INCH HAIL
08/27/03   WASHINGTON

WWR

Local storm report, Aug 27, 9:02 AM EST, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1002 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0915 AM    HOPWOOD                   PA   FLOOD
08/27/03   FAYETTE                        BASEMENT AND STREET
                                          FLOODING REPORTED BY EMA.

WWR

Local storm report, Aug 27, 9:12 AM EST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT ... CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1012 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0955 AM    MCMURRAY                  PA   FLOOD
08/27/03   WASHINGTON                     WATER OVER SUGAR CREEK
                                          ROAD.

WWR

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:12 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Westmoreland

When: August 27, 9:15 AM EST
Where: Westmoreland County, Greensburg
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.300, -79.550

Hail, one inch in diameter, reported between Greensburg and Latrobe.

What these are

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

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Pennsylvania, August 2003

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: 5369343.