Thunderstorm Wind — Crawford, Pennsylvania

2024-10-06 · near Frenchtown, Crawford, Pennsylvania

Event narrative

Several trees downed at Plank Road and PA Route 27 on east side of Meadville.

Wider weather episode

During the early afternoon through early evening of October 6th, a surface cold front moved eastward across NE OH and into NW PA. Along the front, a broken line of multicell thunderstorms and isolated supercell thunderstorms developed and persisted generally eastward in NW PA. These storms produced sporadic straight-line convective wind damage and severe hail amidst moderate to strong effective bulk shear, weak to moderate MUCAPE, and moderate DCAPE in the warm and relatively-moist sector.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1256634. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.