Pennsylvania storm reports for April 20, 2015

Name: NOAA storm reports, Pennsylvania, April 20, 2015
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 18 hail reports and 1 tornado report in Pennsylvania on April 20, 2015.

in Pennsylvania; 19
Storm reports: About 47 miles from Hagerstown, MD; 1.5 in
Largest hail: Highest rating EF0, about 55 miles from Harrisburg, PA; 1
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on April 20, 2015 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

Reports by hour

Hail18, most at 6 PM

Tornado1, most at 6 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
6:55 PM	EF0	About 55 miles from Harrisburg, PA	0.96 mi long, 40 yd wide

Time	Size	Where
4:25 PM	1.0 in	About 26 miles from Pittsburgh, PA
4:52 PM	0.88 in	Near 40.61, -78.80, PA
4:58 PM	1.5 in	About 47 miles from Hagerstown, MD
5:41 PM	1.25 in	Near 40.51, -78.40, PA
5:42 PM	1.25 in	Near 40.50, -78.40, PA
5:44 PM	1.0 in	Near 40.60, -78.33, PA
6:01 PM	1.0 in	Near 40.48, -78.42, PA
6:10 PM	1.0 in	Near 40.70, -78.11, PA
6:11 PM	1.25 in	About 30 miles from Harrisburg, PA
6:22 PM	1.0 in	Near 40.79, -78.02, PA
6:36 PM	0.88 in	About 51 miles from Pittsburgh, PA
6:40 PM	1.0 in	Near 40.79, -77.86, PA

Show all 18 hail reports

Time	Size	Where
6:54 PM	1.0 in	Near 41.14, -77.45, PA
6:58 PM	1.0 in	Near 41.17, -77.37, PA
7:05 PM	1.25 in	Near 41.20, -77.27, PA
7:05 PM	1.25 in	Near 41.19, -77.32, PA
7:30 PM	1.0 in	Near 41.20, -77.27, PA
7:35 PM	1.0 in	About 7 miles from Harrisburg, PA

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Harrisburg, PA	1.0 in	None	0

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.