The radar coverage gap also affects Adams, York, Lancaster, and Lebanon Counties which have sometime been referred to as “Pennsylvania’s Tornado Alley”.
Strong convective thunderstorms moving east or southeast pick up a shot of energy from the urban “heat islands” plus a shot of moisture from the mile-wide Susquehanna leading to rapid intensification.
Unfortunately that area is on the fringe of the Sterling VA, Mt. Holly NJ, and State College doppler radars.
WE REALLY NEED DOPPLER AT HIA!
We had a 20min, mini-blizzard over here in East York!
“The radar coverage gap...”
Our farm is located in one of those! Last summer we had some tornadoes go through and my phone was ringing off the hook by people convinced my farm had been swept away!
Scary for them - but I had no idea I was in any danger at all.
(We never got hit; nothing around us got hit, either.)
WE REALLY NEED DOPPLER AT HIA!
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Would that cover Schuylkill county? WGAL has a doppler in Manchester Township, IIRC.
I live 10-15 miles south of where this happened. The area around Pine Grove and Ravine where it happened probably wouldn’t be covered very well by a doppler radar in Middletown (HIA).