March 29, 2009
York, Pennsylvania
Monday, March 30, 2009 8:43 AM
Photos, Radar: A Hail of a Storm For NYC, Philly (click here)
March 29, 2009
York, Pennsylvania
Photographer states :: The skies went green before an onslaught of hail and wind... After surveying all the damage trees were knocked down in all different directions... Springettsbury Township York Pa More Storm pics and damage can be found here... http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenmaciejewski/sets/72157616107315208/
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Posted on Mon, Mar. 30, 2009
Possible tornadoes, huge hail, high winds wreak havoc (click here)
By Peter Mucha
Inquirer Staff Writer
Severe thunderstorms yesterday brought reports of possible tornadoes, hailstones bigger than golf balls and 50 m.p.h. gusts to parts of southern and eastern Pennsylvania.
A trailer home overturned, crushing a car, and five other trailer homes were destroyed in Lancaster County's Clay Township yesterday afternoon.
Three people suffered minor injuries, said a county official.
In nearby Denver, Pa., "numerous roofs were blown off houses," according to a National Weather Service report.
A funnel cloud may have touched down, becoming a tornado, and a determination could come today after officials of the National Weather Service and county emergency management agency survey the damage and interview observers.
Funnel clouds were spotted between 4 and 4:30 p.m. by trained observers in York County, the county west of Lancaster.
Trees fell on houses in York, Pa., and poles and wires were down.
In Montgomery Township, Montgomery County, more than 20 homes in the Wethersfield and Summer Ridge developments suffered damage to siding, windows and roofs, according to the weather service.
Reports of golf-ball-size hail came in not only from Lancaster and Lebanon yesterday afternoon, but also during the early evening from Media, Delaware County; Northeast Philadelphia; and Ancient Oaks, Lehigh County.
One-inch hail even hit parts of South Jersey, from Mount Holly, Burlington County, to Hammonton, Atlantic County.
Gusts neared 50 m.p.h. at Northeast Airport and topped that mark in Reading.
For the latest forecast, go to http://go.philly.com/weather.
March 29, 2009
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
Photographer states :: Early Sunday evening on March 29t, a brief, but fierce hail storm flew through the area. These were taken on Long Lane by Lewis Ave. in Upper Darby.
March 27, 2009
Conroe, Texas
Photographer stated :: the storms that came through dropping hail on austin were worse, but when golfballs are flying from the air it tends to makes the kids scared.
By JOHN AUSTIN
jaustin@star-telegram.com
FORT WORTH — Pingpong-ball-size hail smashed about 400 new and used vehicles at Allen Samuels Chrysler Dodge Jeep Alliance on Interstate 35 in north Fort Worth on Monday night, and large hail whacked Keller, Grapevine and Wise County as well.
"Every car on the lot was damaged to some degree or other," said Wes Harrison, Samuels’ president and general manager. "It was pretty severe. We had windshields knocked out." Harrison added that the damaged cars will sold at a "a pretty good discount."
Harrison wasn’t expecting insurance adjustors until today but said the price tag for the damage could be "close to a million [dollars]."
Tara Dudzik, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, said the severe thunderstorms dropped quarter-size hail on Denton and golf-ball-size hail on Keller, Grapevine and parts of Wise County.
"It was kind of all over the place," Dudzik said....
Keller, Texas
March 30, 2009
Photographer states :: Golf ball to baseball-sized hail hits Tarrant County in Texas.
