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[STORMREPORTS] Re: Heavy Snow Squalls Causing Accidents in PA

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) 2 (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Tue Jan 06 2004 - 13:49:25 EST

Here is more information on the accidents:

Radar From Time Of Accident, Shows 34dbz (very strong) snow squalls over I-80
Before:
http://www.weathermatrix.net/2004/0106/20040106.1606.BREF1.gif
After:
http://www.weathermatrix.net/2004/0106/20040106.1624.BREF1.gif
Loop (Valid until 3pm):
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/neilley/NIDS_loop.script?site=CCX&period=200m&interval=0m¶meter=3

News Articles:
http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=1589089&nav=5ka4K1Dl
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/7645505.htm

D.O.T. Cams & Weather Stations (no archives):
http://65.246.225.166/site/site.nsf/MainPage?OpenFrameSet&Frame=Content

QUOTES FROM CENTRE DAILY:

"MARION TOWNSHIP - Two multiple-vehicle wrecks today on Interstate 80, one
involving 25 to 40 cars, shut down a 20-mile stretch of the roadway, killed
several people and sent more than a dozen to area hospitals.

The crashes could keep the westbound lanes of I-80 between the Lock Haven
and Milesburg exits closed until midnight, Fannin said. Eastbound lanes in
the area also were closed as of 1 p.m.

Fannin said both wrecks happened about 11:15 a.m. and may have been weather
related. Snow squalls in the area this morning occasionally obscured
visibility.

Fannin said the massive pileup, involving many tractor-trailers and other
vehicles, happened between Lock Haven and Bellefonte; the second crash,
involving three tractor-trailers, between Bellefonte and Milesburg.

The second accident occurred when a tractor-trailer carrying a
prefabricated home slid on the ice and its load broke into pieces and fell
onto the roadway and over the embankment.

State police declared the first crash a mass-casualty incident. Some
vehicles in the massive pileup were on fire an hour later, sending thick,
black smoke into the air that emergency responders said may be toxic."

At 11:43 AM 1/6/2004, Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) 2 wrote:

> From the National Weather Service in State College, PA:
>
>SOME OF THE HEAVIER SQUALLS COULD DROP A QUICK COATING TO AN INCH OR
>TWO OF SNOW. THIS WILL CAUSE ROAD CONDITIONS TO DETERIORATE RAPIDLY
>IN SOME LOCATIONS. GUSTY WINDS COULD ALSO CAUSE BLOWING AND DRIFTING
>OF ANY NEW SNOW THAT FALLS...REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO AT
>TIMES.
>
>MULTIPLE VEHICLE ACCIDENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN SOME OF THE
>SQUALLS OVER PARTS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.
>
>http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/pa/special.html 

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