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A few clips of the wicked Hail Storm that hit Red Lion, PA, Monday afternoon.
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Hail Storm! Plow Needed Red Lion PA
May 23, 2016
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I'd posted some pics and an short video on Facebook.
The noise from the hail was just a constant roar, like a passing train or something.
There was a river of brown water washing down Maryland avenue and flooding the street in front of my house. Three school buses (large, medium, and one of those vans) had pulled up into my driveway to get above the flood water.
There was still a pile of ice under my living room window when I went to bed four hours later.
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What has me steamed is that the National Weather Service never issues so much as severe thunderstorm watch--let alone a warning--for this storm.
And based on CT's report a flash flood warning should have been issued as well.
I've been a certified Skywarn spotter for two decades. A few minutes after 3 my wife phoned me from the area of Sam Lewis State Park to tell me that there was pea to marble-sized hail. I immediately called the National Weather Service Skywarn number with my password and the report. That should have triggered a Severe Thunderstorm Warning.
Even more mysterious is that the Severe Storms Forecast Center www,soc,noaa,gov has nothing on its "storm reports" page for May 24 for hail in York County.
It is as though, in the eyes of NOAA, this never happened.
Was this some type of Pentagon cloud seeding experiment?
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This storm gave the band Hale Storm, from Red Lion, meaning behind their name.
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Rock on!