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Tornadoes touch down in western Pennsylvania
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5/18/2024
Stormy weather moving through the Northeast led to a few weak tornadoes in Pennsylvania on May 17.
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Let's take you to southwestern Pennsylvania where we actually had a few tornado warn storms earlier today and
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Reports of tornadoes touching the ground in the greater Pittsburgh area. Yeah, this is pretty wild Melissa very low cloud bases
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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
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Storms because it was so humid out there that the cloud bases were indeed very low
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Let's zoom in on radar to the Pittsburgh Metro
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We do have an ongoing flash flood warning now the bulk of the rain has exited
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But still a big chunk of Allegheny County under a flash flood warning until 815 that is likely to expire on time
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But as we turn the reports on take a look at this
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I wanted to point out there was even a tornado earlier today in Leesville Lake Park of Ohio in Carroll County a brief
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small tornado touchdown
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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
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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
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Possible tornado that was not an impressive looking cell within the next 5-6 minutes on radar when we showed it to you
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But again, it was enough to produce a brief tornado touchdown and then back earlier at 310 tornado touchdown in
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Lincoln of Allegheny County Harrison City tornado touchdown at 350
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So we've been peppered by some trouble and then 445 multiple staff members of the Pittsburgh Zoo saw funnel cloud
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Damage to the zoo property possible tornado there. So all kinds of issues there in Pittsburgh and six days ago
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We had a few tornadoes touchdown into an area closer to Ohio pile PA
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And down into parts of Allegheny County down this way
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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
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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
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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
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Ohio and Western Pennsylvania today with these storms as they are drifting through the region
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Even though the main event has been farther to the south
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