Tornadoes touch down in western Pennsylvania

Stormy weather moving through the Northeast led to a few weak tornadoes in Pennsylvania on May 17.

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00:00 Let's take you to southwestern Pennsylvania where we actually had a few tornado warn storms earlier today and

00:06 Reports of tornadoes touching the ground in the greater Pittsburgh area. Yeah, this is pretty wild Melissa very low cloud bases

00:12 So there the atmosphere had to do a little less work to kind of connect the dots between a condensation funnel and the base of these

00:19 Storms because it was so humid out there that the cloud bases were indeed very low

00:23 Let's zoom in on radar to the Pittsburgh Metro

00:25 We do have an ongoing flash flood warning now the bulk of the rain has exited

00:30 But still a big chunk of Allegheny County under a flash flood warning until 815 that is likely to expire on time

00:36 But as we turn the reports on take a look at this

00:38 I wanted to point out there was even a tornado earlier today in Leesville Lake Park of Ohio in Carroll County a brief

00:46 small tornado touchdown

00:48 It caused damage to multiple pontoon boats at a marina as it moved out over the water became a water spout

00:53 Then we step east and that was back at

00:56 130 Eastern a little bit later than that into the area around very close to Pittsburgh in the Aspen wall neighborhood for 42

01:03 numerous trees down

01:05 Possible tornado that was not an impressive looking cell within the next 5-6 minutes on radar when we showed it to you

01:10 But again, it was enough to produce a brief tornado touchdown and then back earlier at 310 tornado touchdown in

01:17 Lincoln of Allegheny County Harrison City tornado touchdown at 350

01:21 So we've been peppered by some trouble and then 445 multiple staff members of the Pittsburgh Zoo saw funnel cloud

01:27 Damage to the zoo property possible tornado there. So all kinds of issues there in Pittsburgh and six days ago

01:33 We had a few tornadoes touchdown into an area closer to Ohio pile PA

01:37 And down into parts of Allegheny County down this way

01:40 So it's been a very active time into southwest Pennsylvania with tornadoes and at this point you can see that there are some showers

01:46 We're not facing much of a severe threat at the moment with these thunderstorms up into parts of Michigan

01:50 But we'll be watching in case any additional storms flare up here

01:53 You can see that we have had a couple of reports of hail here into Goodrich

01:57 We're looking at half dollar size hail back at 725 not that long ago and in Columbia Ville, Michigan earlier half dollar size hail there, too

02:04 So some big-time impacts into parts of Michigan

02:07 Ohio and Western Pennsylvania today with these storms as they are drifting through the region

02:12 Even though the main event has been farther to the south