Hail in Pennsylvania, July 17, 2004

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
220 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004

.SYNOPSIS...
SLOW MOVING UPPER LOW OVER OHIO WILL SPREAD STEADY RAINFALL ACROSS
THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND SUNDAY...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80.
THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS EXPECTED VERY LATE TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY
AFTERNOON ACROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS EASTWARD THROUGH THE
LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY. AT THIS TIME...FLOODING IS NOT
ANTICIPATED FROM THESE AMOUNTS. MEAN TROF POSITION TO LINGER ACROSS
THE REGION EARLY TO MID WEEK FOR CONTD CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND
SEASONABLY COOL CONDITIONS.

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.AVIATION...(18Z-18Z)
DEVELOPING EASTERLY SURFACE FLOW OVERNIGHT STRENGTHENING ON SUN
LEADING TO FREQUENT IFR CONDITIONS IN RAIN AND FOG WITH FEW EMBEDDED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH RA/+RA.  VFR SAT AFTN WITH -SHRA SPREADING NE
FROM SW PA ACROSS CWA OVERNIGHT LOWERING CONDITIONS TO MVFR AFTER
DARK.

&&

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT)...
RAIN SHIELF SLOWLY BUT STEADILY PRESSING EASTWARD INTO THE LAURELS.
ISOLATED CONVECTION HAS FIRED AHEAD OF THE AREA OF STRATIFORM
RAINFALL OVER INDIANA AND CAMBRIA COUNTIES WITH EVEN A LIGHTNING
STRIKE INDICATED IN THE PAST 15 MINS. ADDITIONAL WIDELY SCATTERED
ACTIVITY HAS FIRED (ONE CELL) OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY AND JUST SOUTH OF
THE PA/MD BORDER IN BALTIMORE COUNTY. RAIN SHIELD WL CONT TO EXPAND
AND OVERSPREAD CENTRAL PA BY LATE TONIGHT AND THE REMAINDER OF EAST
CENTRAL PA SUNDAY MORNING.

&&

.LONG TERM (SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY)...
SUN HIGHS WILL LIKELY BE WITHIN A FEW DEGREES OF RECORD MIN MAXES
FOR KIPT AND KMDT. HAVE ISSUED SPS TO ADDRESS WIDESPREAD MDT
RAINFALL...BUT NO CONCERN FOR FLOODING AT THE PRESENT TIME. HEAVIEST
RAINFALL SHOULD MOVE EAST OF THE AREA SUN EVENING AS DRY SLOT
ARRIVES FROM THE SOUTHWEST. SLOW MOVNING UPPER TROF AXIS REMAINS IN
PLACE THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT... THEN GFS AND ETA DIFFER SOMEWHAT WITH
ETA BRINGING SOME RISING HEIGHTS AHEAD OF A SOMEWHAT PROGRESSIVE H5
TROF IN THE WNW UPPER FLOW...WHILE THE GFS DROPS THIS TROF BACK INTO
THE NEARLY STATIONARY EASTERN LONG WAVE TROF ALONG THE EASTERN
SEABOARD.  THE RESULT IS THE SAME...HOWEVER...WITH CHANCES OF
SHOWERS LINGERING THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK ALONG WITH BELOW
NORMAL TEMPERATURES.

&&

.CTP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
PA...NONE.
&&

SYNOPSIS...
AVIATION...BUDD
SHORT TERM/LONG TERM...DEVOIR

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
346 AM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004

PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053-
056>059-063>066-171939-
ADAMS PA-BEDFORD PA-BLAIR PA-CAMBRIA PA-CAMERON PA-CLEARFIELD PA-
COLUMBIA PA-CUMBERLAND PA-DAUPHIN PA-ELK PA-FRANKLIN PA-FULTON PA-
HUNTINGDON PA-JUNIATA PA-LANCASTER PA-LEBANON PA-MCKEAN PA-
MIFFLIN PA-MONTOUR PA-NORTHERN CENTRE PA-NORTHERN CLINTON PA-
NORTHERN LYCOMING PA-NORTHUMBERLAND PA-PERRY PA-POTTER PA-
SCHUYLKILL PA-SNYDER PA-SOMERSET PA-SOUTHERN CENTRE PA-
SOUTHERN CLINTON PA-SOUTHERN LYCOMING PA-SULLIVAN PA-TIOGA PA-
UNION PA-WARREN PA-YORK PA-
346 AM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY:

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL
MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON...AND SOME MAY MOVE SLOWLY AND PRODUCE HEAVY
RAIN. ANY HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE SOME LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING
PROBLEMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY:

RAIN WILL DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT OVER THE SOUTHERN TIER AND SPREAD
NORTHWARD TO COVER MOST OF THE REGION FOR THE DAYTIME ON SUNDAY. AT
THIS TIME...NO WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS EXPECTED DUE TO THE LONG
DURATION AND GENERALLY LIGHT INTENSITY OF THE EXPECTED RAINFALL.
HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY OVER EASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY EVENING...AND THIS COULD LEAD TO
LOCAL MINOR FLOODING PROBLEMS.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

DANGELO

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
345 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004

PAZ065-066-172145-
LANCASTER-YORK-
345 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004

...SLOW MOVING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN YORK COUNTY
AND THE WESTERN HALF OF LANCASTER COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM...

AT 345 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 3
SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF INTERSTATE 83 IN
EASTERN YORK COUNTY. THE STORMS NEAR YORK...EAST PROSPECT...AND
BROGUE WERE DRIFTING NORTHEAST AT ONLY 5 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL
MOVE TO NEAR EAST PETERSBURG...LANCASTER...WILLOW STREET AND
SMITHVILLE BETWEEN 430 PM AND 5 PM.

LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN OF UP TO AN INCH IN AN HOUR WILL FALL...AND
WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES
AND SMALL STREAMS.

BRIEF WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH MANY ACCOMPANY THE HEAVIER BURSTS
OF RAIN. ALSO EXPECT OCCASIONAL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING FROM THE STORMS. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES OR STAY
IN THE OPEN WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS.

LAMBERT