Severe Thunderstorm Outbreak 6/13/87

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• Personal Author:
  Gulezian, Dean P.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Weather Service. Eastern Region
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service) ; ER (Eastern Region)
• Description:
  During the afternoon and evening of 6-13-87, severe thunderstorms occurred in 9 counties of the WSFO Philadelphia forecast area. The counties where severe weather occurred were Fulton (1400 EDT) and Centre (1600 and 1610) in Harrisburg's county warning area (CWA), Clinton (1555) and Bradford (1602) in Williamsport's CWA, Burlington (1915 and 1935), Bucks (2020), and Mercer (2030-2055) in Philadelphia's CWA and Ocean (1730, 2120, and 2150) and Eastern Burlington (2112) in Atlantic City's CWA. The worst storm was a microburst in southern Mercer county which prođuced estimated winds of around 100 mph, golf ball size hail, and over $1 million damage.
• Keywords:
  Hail Severe Storms Thunderstorms Severe Storms
• Series:
  Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.))   87-12(A)
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Technical Attachment
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:70ed748e2410d20a004a12756888e04330546fa546015f0008a8b46b24734993664266c5f7d87794948aad07b182e9b2ca19b28949a90a77e8178abfef5fa213
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/70355/noaa_70355_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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