Thunder thunder and more thunder...

[tomboudreau]

What a day. We started seeing thunderstorms this morning, shortly after midnight and finally had our last main intest line of storms roll through shortly around 1 this afternoon. I think we had 6 or 7 different thunderstorms move through the area today. We picked up 1.85 inches of rainfall from all of the storms. The last thrust of storms was by far the biggest and strongest storms. They even prompted the National Weather Service to issue a tornado warning for Indiana County...just to my south. Here is a short list of damage reports from the NWS Pittsburgh. I expect more reports to come in from the line of storms pushing eastward from OH.

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT -SUMMARIZED CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
545 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003

TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....

0750 AM DRAVOSBURG PA 0.50 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 ALLEGHENY

0755 AM DUQUESNE PA .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 ALLEGHENY

0830 AM ACME PA .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 WESTMORELAND

0850 AM SANDY LAKE PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 MERCER LARGE TREES DOWN

0850 AM NEW LEBANON PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 MERCER LARGE TREES DOWN AND POWER
OUTAGES. HOUSE ON FIRE DUE
TO LIGHTNING STRIKE.

0855 AM POLK PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 VENANGO LARGE TREES DOWN.

0910 AM FRANKLIN PA FLASH FLOODS
08/26/03 VENANGO ROAD FLOODING.

0920 AM LIMESTONE PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 CLARION LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN

0920 AM CLARION PA .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 CLARION

0930 AM FRANKLIN PA FLASH FLOODS
08/26/03 VENANGO HOUSES FLOODED AND EVACUATED.

0955 AM CRANBERRY PA .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 VENANGO

1000 AM SLIGO PA FLASH FLOODS
08/26/03 CLARION SR 68 FLOODED FROM SLIGO
TO CLARION.

1000 AM HAWTHORN PA FLASH FLOODS
08/26/03 CLARION SR 28 TO SR 66 FLOODED.


1155 AM FRANKLIN PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 VENANGO LARGE TREES DOWN ON
ROCKY ROAD.

1240 PM NEW CASTLE PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 LAWRENCE LARGE TREES DOWN.

1245 PM COUNTYWIDE PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 LAWRENCE TREES AND LINES DOWN
ON NUMEROUS ROADS
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.

1255 PM 6S BUTLER PA 69 MPH TSTM WIND GUST.
08/26/03 BUTLER

0120 PM KITTANNING PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 ARMSTRONG EOC REPORTS NUMEROUS
TREES AND LINES DOWN.

0120 PM FORD CITY PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 ARMSTRONG EOC REPORTS NUMEROUS TREES
AND LINES DOWN IN THE AREA.


0146 PM NEW CASTLE PA FLASH FLOODS
08/26/03 LAWRENCE GROVE, TAYLOR, CASCADE
STREETS ARE CLOSED DUE TO
FLOODING. CUNNINGHAM AVE.
IS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING
AND DAMAGE CAUSED BY FLOOD
WATERS.

0150 PM FRANKLIN PA FLASH FLOODS
08/26/03 VENANGO STREAMS FLOODED.

0152 PM INDIANA PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 INDIANA EOC REPORTS NUMEROUS LARGE
TREES DOWN IN THE AREA.

0155 PM CLYMER PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 INDIANA NUMEROUS LARGE TREES AND WIRES
DOWN.

0205 PM KELLEY STATION PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 INDIANA NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
IN AREA.

0205 PM VANDERGRIFT PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 WESTMORELAND NUMEROUS LARGE TREES
BLOWN DOWN.

0215 PM GREENSBURG PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 WESTMORELAND NUMEROUS LARGE TREES
BLOWN DOWN.

0215 PM DERRY PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 WESTMORELAND NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.

0220 PM LATROBE PA .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 WESTMORELAND REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER.

0222 PM LATROBE PA FLASH FLOODS
08/26/03 WESTMORELAND STREET FLOODING REPORTED
IN THE TOWN BY SKYWARN
OBSERVER.

0241 PM SEWARD PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 WESTMORELAND NUMEROUS LARGE TREES
BLOWN DOWN.

0245 PM NEW FLORENCE PA WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 WESTMORELAND NUMEROUS LARGE TREES
BLOWN DOWN.

0255 PM NEW CASTLE PA FLASH FLOODS
08/26/03 LAWRENCE RT 422 FLOODED NEAR NEW
CASTLE. SEVERAL ADDITIONAL
STREETS FLOODED IN DOWNTOWN AREA.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.

[weatherlover427]

:o That's quite an extensive list of damage and severe weather reports! Thank Goodness they had watches out for this! :o