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Give me your coordinates and I can add you! Or I can just use wherever Google places Akron.

I was away the weekend you were adding the locals to the map...so I was late to the dance and added them to the thread after you were likely done.  Just use zip 17501.  thanks man.  

 

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Anyone in the Harrisburg area with a rain gauge? Curious to how much we have so far today, it has really dumped at times. 

I do but not currently home to check

 

along with the enhanced risk upgrade there is currently a mesoscale precipitation discussion that includes some of us - http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/metwatch_mpd_multi.php?md=36&yr=2016

 

just like last week we are getting some crazy local temperature gradients

 

current severe parameters are not all that impressive but it may not take a whole lot for that to change for some parts of PA

 

there is a ton of moisture being pulled northward along east coast from the Gulf!  Anytime you get precipitable water values above 1.0 in February is impressive, except it means that it is not of frozen variety...

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Flash Flood Watch up...

 

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=PAZ057&warncounty=PAC043&firewxzone=PAZ057&local_place1=Harrisburg%20PA&product1=Flash+Flood+Watch&lat=40.2761&lon=-76.8845#.Vs4O0uJCpRw

 

for those that commute in the area... also sounding like/looking like a bad accident on I-81 close to Enola exit that is really backing up traffic in both directions... sauss are you hearing anything about it?

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Flash Flood Watch up...

 

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=PAZ057&warncounty=PAC043&firewxzone=PAZ057&local_place1=Lawnton PA&product1=Flash+Flood+Watch&lat=40.2658&lon=-76.7989#.Vs4NFE32aUk

 

for those that commute in the area... also sounding like/looking like a bad accident on I-81 close to Enola exit that is really backing up traffic in both directions... sauss are you hearing anything about it?

Car crossed the median striking a tractor trailer, it is a fatal. Its at MM64 right at the Miller street overpass going up to your place. 

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What a weird temp gradient currently, it's almost like an overgrown CAD event between the cities haha.

 

61 in Pittsburgh

42 in Harrisburg

56 in York

63 in Philly

42 in Altonna

45 in State College

 

46 here. I have a sneaky suspicion that anyone who get stuck in the 40's doesn't see any severe storms.

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This is one of those "no joke" watches 

 

 

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 28
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
320 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016
 
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
 
* TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF 
  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
  DELAWARE
  CENTRAL AND EASTERN MARYLAND
  SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
  SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA
  NORTHERN VIRGINIA
  COASTAL WATERS
 
* EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 320 PM
  UNTIL 1100 PM EST.
 
* PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE...
  A FEW TORNADOES AND A COUPLE INTENSE TORNADOES POSSIBLE
  SCATTERED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH LIKELY
 
SUMMARY...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL QUICKLY PROGRESS
NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION THROUGH THIS EVENING.
DAMAGING WINDS AND A FEW TORNADOES WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS.
 
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 75 STATUTE
MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF
PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA TO 35 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF PATUXENT
RIVER MARYLAND.  FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE
ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
 
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

 

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They are getting them in Virginia right now. A friend of mine posted a pic on Facebook of a near perfect funnel near Appomattox. Currently getting 2 inch/hour rates with some thunder here in some very heavy rain.

 

Looks pretty crazy down there right now... a nearly continuous line of Tornado warnings from all of Virginia down through NC.

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WUUS51 KCTP 242310

SVRCTP

PAC041-043-071-075-133-250030-

/O.NEW.KCTP.SV.W.0002.160224T2310Z-160225T0030Z/

 

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA

610 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016

 

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

 

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  LEBANON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

  YORK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

  NORTHEASTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

  SOUTHERN DAUPHIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

  LANCASTER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

 

* UNTIL 730 PM EST

 

* AT 607 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE

  THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH.

  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MECHANICSBURG

  TO NEAR WESTMINSTER TO FAIRLAND...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

  WEIGELSTOWN...NEW CUMBERLAND...MOUNT JOY...ENOLA...MYERSTOWN...

  LEBANON...MANHEIM...ANNVILLE...LEMOYNE...MIDDLETOWN...

  HUMMELSTOWN...MILLERSVILLE...MECHANICSBURG...DALLASTOWN...

  HERSHEY...LOWER ALLEN...COLONIAL PARK...LANCASTER...PALMYRA AND

  YORK.

 

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...

 THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE FROM MILE MARKERS 229 TO 295.

 INTERSTATE 78 FROM MILE MARKERS 0 TO 8.

 INTERSTATE 81 FROM MILE MARKERS 53 TO 96.

 INTERSTATE 83 FROM MILE MARKERS 1 TO 50.

 INTERSTATE 283 FROM MILE MARKERS 0 TO 2.

 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

 

THE THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE DAMAGE. PEOPLE

OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG

BUILDING.

 

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY

LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED

ROADWAYS.

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Pretty impressive storm here. Especially since it's late February and was in the mid 40s all day until that craaaaazy spike just before the line got here.

Continuous lightning, gusts probably near 45, great loud thunder, torrential rain. Very impressed it made it this far East, it'll do some serious damage on toward the Philly area I bet since it's so strong here and they are in a much more unstable atmosphere out there.

Happy February, this will probably be the best thunderstorm of the year ha!

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Pretty impressive storm here. Especially since it's late February and was in the mid 40s all day until that craaaaazy spike just before the line got here.

Continuous lightning, gusts probably near 45, great loud thunder, torrential rain. Very impressed it made it this far East, it'll do some serious damage on toward the Philly area I bet since it's so strong here and they are in a much more unstable atmosphere out there.

Happy February, this will probably be the best thunderstorm of the year ha!

 

It appears as if it continues to strengthen as it moves east. So far I'm still stuck in the 40s (49 to be exact), but I'm expecting that warm air spike to arrive soon. I hope it's as impressive up here as it was out there.

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