Name: Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 29, 2003
Start: 2003-08-29T13:25
End: 2003-08-29T13:25
Location: Pennsylvania

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $2,000
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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 29, 2:15 AM EST, 11 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 2:15 AM EST, 11 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
315 AM EDT FRI AUG 29 2003

WRMFNT PUSHING NE ACRS THE CWA ERY THIS MRNG AND SO FAR NO PCPN WITH
IT. IN SHORT TERM...INTO FRI NITE...MODEL IN FAIR AGREEMENT. ETS LTL
SLOWER BRINGING FNT THRU THIS EVNG. COMP BRING IT TO CLE AREA ARND
00Z. WL GO WITH LKLY POPS TDA MNLY AFTN THOUGH DO HAVE CHC MRNG POPS
IN GRIDS. ETS WAS SLOWEST WITH FNT THIS EVNG BUT MOVES IT FURTHER TO
S THAN GFS BY 12Z...MORE LIKE NGM. GRDLY ENDG PCPN NRN ZNS TNGT BUT
KP AT IT GOING IN SRN AREA OVRNGT. INIT LKLY POPS ERY DROPPING TO
CHC AFT 04-06Z S WITH FNT MOVG THRU. ATTM NOT SURE HOW THE REST OF
THE WEEKEND IS GOING TO GO. HAVE A HARD TIME BLVG GFS SPCLY WITH AMT
PCPN AND KEEPING FNT FURTHERN N. HOWEVER WITH ZNL FLOW IT WL BE HARD
TO MOV TO FAR OUT OF THE RGN. WL KP SAT AND SUN DRY ADDING CHC TO
SRN AREAS MON.

.CLE...
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.

WCR

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 29, 4:41 AM EST, 8 hours 44 minutes before

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
541 AM EDT FRI AUG 29 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO
AND A PORTION OF NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY AND THERE IS A CHANCE THAT A
FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 29, 12:15 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
115 PM EDT FRI AUG 29 2003

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED JUST SOUTH OF THE LAKE
ERIE SHORE LINE. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM FROM EASTERN ERIE COUNTY IN
PENNSYLVANIA ACROSS NORTHEAST OHIO...THEN SOUTHWEST INTO MORROW COUNTY.
THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD
PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
DETAILS OR UPDATES.

WSF

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 151 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:22 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Erie

When: August 29, 1:25 PM EST
Where: Erie County, Waterford
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.950, -79.983

Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.

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

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: 5332812.