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Special Weather Statement issued October 16 at 3:56PM EDT by NWS State College PA

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At 355 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 16 miles northwest of Linglestown to near Enola to 11 miles northeast of Shippensburg. Movement was east at 45 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Harrisburg, Carlisle, Lower Allen, Hershey, Colonial Park, Progress, Mechanicsburg, Middletown, Camp Hill, Palmyra, New Cumberland, Linglestown, Enola, Steelton, Annville, Lemoyne, Hummelstown, Plainfield, Paxtonia, and Schlusser. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for south central and central Pennsylvania.

Event time
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Provider
NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
Location
PA, US
Severity
Moderate
area
Perry; Dauphin; Lebanon; Cumberland; York
event
Special Weather Statement
onset
2026-10-16T15:56:00-04:00
states
["PA"]
urgency
Expected
certainty
Observed
effective
2026-10-16T15:56:00-04:00
message id
urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.6dff178f1b8a48efd1a94ff86c788829045b669c.001.1
references
[]
instruction
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for south central and central Pennsylvania.
message type
Alert
freshness minutes
60
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