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The old hat trick for a few may not be out of the question.

My son said that there was a tornado reported in Perrry county . I'm not sure how legitimate that is. I'm just sitting here waiting for my opportunity to get my line out here in Goldsboro.

Man, did I just f****** drive through something . Dangerous situation unfolding out here on the roads Newberrytown lewisberry area The torrential downpour, I just drove through is up there with some of the best of them.

Ground strikes all around me while getting off the water, it's ominous out of here in the pincho area

This is a lightning map from our storm yesterday. This really exemplifies how poor the LDN can be at times. It looks to me like it probably picked up less than 10% of the strikes yesterday in our area.

Low level lapse rates and cape are juicing up nicely. The mid and upper levels haven't caught up to where they were yesterday, at this time . However, Northwestern PA is close to having very subtle overlap of both 3km cape and surface vorticity .

I know brother. I don't just base what I say off phone calls from family, internet stories, or just the view out my window. I actually go out and put in my own work and see for myself. It's definitely a unprecedented scale.

Reevaluating, my thought, I guess it would depend on how you look at , if you're just talking about the few streets in Harrisburg that got hit by a tornado in 2009 then, sure.

The tree damage in the area blows 2009 away. There's not even any comparison to be had.

Pictures from Harrisburg that my son sent me

It could have been a hell of a lot worse for our area had the soil been saturated.

The one thing I noticed every place had in common along my drives last night, and this morning was the smell of freshly cut timber. I think a lot of people are going to be surprised about how widespread and damaging ithis wind event actually was as pictures and stories roll in. Some of the hardest hit places along my drives were the Heritage golf course in Lisburn, neighborhoods surrounding the I81 and Carlisle pike Interchange, areas around Cedar, Cliff high school, including the Cliffs, and the north end of Greenlane farms. My son also sent me pictures from front street in Harrisburg and I can also confirm that that area seems particularly hard hit. Unfortunately, driving last night required extra attention so I got very few pictures and videos ,but seeing the damage fresh leves, no doubt in my mind that this was the worst windstorm in my hometown and many surrounding areas in my lifetime. The picture below is what it looks like outside my sliding door and looking directly back at it from my woods. I lost four large connifer trees just in that view. I also lost 2 large poplar trees and small dogwood and had several deadfalls.

No morning update from the Spc yet but the national weather service seems pretty confident we are going to see more severe weather in cpa today. Highlight Changed Discussion -- 998 FXUS61 KCTP 050843 AFDCTP Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service State College PA 443 AM EDT Sun Jul 5 2026 .WHAT HAS CHANGED... * Dense Fog Advisory issued early this morning for the western and central Alleghenies * Targeted Moderate Risk Excessive Rainfall Outlook (level 3/4) for east-central Pennsylvania through tonight * Flood Watch issued this afternoon through Monday for east- central Pennsylvania && .KEY MESSAGES... 1) Breakdown of heat wave pattern gives rise to severe storms and torrential downpours today and Monday && .DISCUSSION... KEY MESSAGE 1: Breakdown of heat wave pattern gives rise to severe storms and torrential downpours today and Monday 40 severe thunderstorm warnings issued in the past 2 days. The days following a transition from an extreme heat pattern are often marked by severe/active weather, and that trend continues through at least Monday. As the heat dome shifts to the west and troughing develops over the Great Lakes/Ohio Valley/Northeast, the upcoming week will feature relatively cooler (more seasonal) temperatures with a bullish signal for almost daily rain chances particularly early and late in the week. In the very near term, clearing sky and nearly calm wind following last evenings widespread rainfall has resulted in areas of dense fog over the western and central Alleghenies. IR sat shows the fog expanding as higher clouds peel away. We issued a DFA through 13Z/9AM with several ASOS and RWIS sites already reporting 1/4 mile visibility. Another active wx day ahead with dual severe T-storm and flash flood risks to manage. We anticipate another diurnal uptick in convective development within a very warm, moist and increasingly unstable environment indicative of steep low-mid level lapse rates. Pockets of stronger deep layer shear 30+ kt may exist in the upper OH Valley and eastern PA, but the general expectation is for pulse to multicell storms to once again merge/form into line segments with some cold pool organization to promote damaging wind potential from mid afternoon into the evening. SPC placed the highest damaging wind probs near/southeast of I81/78 where max temps should reach 90F. Focus will should evolve from severe to flash flood/hydro ops by later this evening and continue into Monday as a robust +RA signal continues to manifest over east-central PA. Atmos conditions will be quite favorable for heavy rainfall and flash flooding potential with 2+ inch pwats correlating to intense rain rates >2 in/hr and repeating/back-building storms along q-stnry/wavy frontal zone. Latest HREF/REFS mean QPF guidance is signaling 1-3" in the 24hr period ending 00Z Tue with PMM/LPMM max values exceeding 5 inches. WPC coordinated a targeted and relatively small moderate excessive rainfall outlook (level 3/4) within a broader level 2/4 or SLGT risk area. We issued a relatively large/broad flood watch along with WFO PHI as there remains some spatial uncertainty to exactly where the greatest rainfall will occur. The setup (multiple rounds of slow moving/torrential downpours) favors locally significant flash flooding particularly in terrain areas and highly urbanized corridors. One limiting factor is obviously the drought conditions and corresponding elevated FFG values that may offset the overall risk to some extent https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=CTP&issuedby=CTP&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1&highlight=off

@Jns2183 1:43AM I'm driving through Camp Hill right now checking out all the damage throughout your town. This is locally historic, without a doubt. There's at least 6 trees down on my property. I'm going to take a walk in the woods tonight and assess. Heading out the Carlisle pike, next then driving back through Mechanicsburg, and checking out some of the areas where where I posted some of my first pictures from today.

No shortage of crews and people still out here clearing debris out of roads and off of homes. Fireworks and generators glore out here tonight.

My mistake 11:00 pm tuesday, for some of the residents out this way. That's probably mostly b*******, though.I'd imagine it's going to be long before that for most people if not everyone.

Never have I had wind rock my ford around. I wish we could post videos here. I was actually getting pretty nervous while sitting at the mechanicsburg middle school. I'm going to sleep on it, but today's storme most likely makes it into my top five, and certainly the best I think i've experienced since 2011.

Power company sent out a notification to everybody in our area that power may not be restored until 6pm Tuesday for some customers.

Yes, indeed. It took me quite a while to clear my way home with some of the locals. Just through my chainsaw on my truck and i'm heading out to help clear some stuff up around my area.

Absolutely pummeled out here in lisberne and fairview township area.We're not getting home without clearing the roads ourselves out here. I passed a couple homes with damage also at this point.

This is the third time i've encountered.We've had to clear the roads more picks coming boys, we're stuck at this one.I'm not getting home absolutely pummeled out here as I get towards fairview township

This is the third time i've encountered.We've had to clear the roads more picks coming boys, we're stuck at this one.I'm not getting home absolutely pummeled out here as I get towards fairview township