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[STORMREPORTS] RE: Tuesday PM pop-up storms

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 06:43:05 EDT

At 01:05 AM 5/15/2002 -0400, Greg Drollinger wrote:
>In today's event, more typical of March or April than mid May in this
>region, quite a bit of tree and powerline damage was seen across the
>region... with some structural damage as well. A person was killed by a
>falling tree in N WV. I do not know if this was a convective shower that
>produced that wind gust, or it was a cell which actually did contain
>lightning... I have not looked at KLWX archived radar yet. An 87mph
>convective gust was also recorded in MD, again in LWX's CWA. And a local
>AWS station near where I live in central Pennsylvania reported a 71 mph
>gust with a passing convective shower. And I do know that lightning was
>NOT associated with this at the time, so as can be seen by today's reports
>obviously convective showers can produce damage comparing to true severe
>thunderstorms. Plus, hail (some reaching severe critria) occurred with
>multiple cells today...

There was some lightning in these cells, but it was late blooming and
light. I heard thunder around noon I think here in State College? Here is
a lightning animation from last night:
<http://www.weathermatrix.net/2002/0514/ltg-anim.gif>http://www.weathermatrix.net/2002/0514/ltg-anim.gif

These are cloud to ground strikes only, of course, from GAI, and they
started between 14 and 15Z.

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