BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1254 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CAMERON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
NORTH CENTRAL ELK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
SOUTHEASTERN MCKEAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
CENTRAL POTTER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
WEST CENTRAL TIOGA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 200 PM EDT
* AT 1252 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE SEVERE STORMS EXTENDED FROM
CROSBY TO EAST BRANCH DAM...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ONE INCH DIAMETER HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS
IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
PORT ALLEGANY AND NORWICH...
ELK RIVER...
ROULETTE...
KEATING SUMMIT AND EMPORIUM...
SIZERVILLE...
COUDERSPORT...
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 6...STATE ROAD
120...STATE ROAD 449.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
NEARLY CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WHEN THUNDER ROARS...MOVE INDOORS!
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGE. MOVE INSIDE A PERMANENT BUILDING
NOW TO BE SAFE FROM STRONG WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL.
