[STORMREPORTS] Damage from MCC's in Pennsylvania Yesterday
Here is a damage report and photo from the media in Fayette Co., PA,
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"At 10 til 7 a.m., a high wind that actually did sound like a train blew
"It was one of the worst storms I heard in a long time," he said. "I don't
But just when the thought was the worst was over, another set of storms
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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (ferrell{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Sat May 22 2004 - 09:54:23 EDT
regarding the Mesoscale Convective Complexes that went through Pennsylvania
Thursday night and Friday evening.
http://www.weathermatrix.net/archive/stormreports/200405/date.shtml
http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11772410&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6
"The Fishers suffered massive damage to both their vehicles and additional
damage to their Route 381 home as severe storms pounded the district,
downing trees and scattering debris across the region.
down on the house and then I heard glass shatter," Mary Lou Fisher said.
The heavy wind and rain toppled two 60-foot-tall trees, one crushing the
Fishers' two vehicles and resting across the porch roof, the other reducing
Route 381 to a single lane. Shortly after the National Weather Service in
Pittsburgh issued a severe storm warning, the Fayette County 911 Center was
deluged with calls reporting downed trees blocking roadways, damaged
utility poles and downed wires. The entire county was affected by the
early morning spring storm, said Roy Shipley Jr., director of the Fayette
County Office of Emergency Management, noting that not a single
municipality went unscathed.
know about other areas, but we were fortunate there wasn't much here."
National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Lee Hendricks said the storms
hit the area shortly after 6 a.m., packing wind gusts of up to 45 to 50 mph
and as much as 2½ inches of rain within a one-hour period.
blew through the area Friday evening, with a repeat of heavy rains, flash
flooding, high winds and toppled trees. According to meteorologist Terry
Parrish of the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh, Waynesburg residents
in Greene County suffered wind damage and saw large trees topple over,
while Uniontown residents suffered flash flooding, as well as toppled trees
and wind gusts as high as 72 miles per hour. Jenny's Run flooded in Dunbar
Township, causing problems for residents living on Duck Hollow Road."
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