ABUS34 KCTP 171749 COR
PNSCTP
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
150 PM EDT WED JUN 17 1998

...STORM DAMAGE IN PERRY COUNTY DETERMINED TO BE CAUSED BY DOWNBURST 
WINDS...

A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGIST SURVEYED DAMAGE ACROSS 
PERRY COUNTY THIS MORNING. THE SQUALL LINE WHICH PUSHED THROUGH THE 
COUNTY BETWEEN 730 AND 745 CAUSED WIDESPREAD TREE AND STRUCTURAL 
DAMAGE. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT STRAIGHT LINE DOWNBURST WINDS OF F0 
TO F1 INTENSITY...APPROXIMATELY 60 TO 100 MPH...REMOVED A ROOF FROM 
A HOME IN LANDISBURG AND KNOCKED DOWN AT LEAST A DOZEN LARGE TREES. 

SEVERAL TREES WERE ALSO UPROOTED IN NEW BLOOMFIELD. A PORCH WAS 
DAMAGED AND A HOUSE WAS PARTIALLY DEROOFED NEAR SHERMANSDALE IN 
CARROL TOWNSHIP...AND A NEARBY BARN ALSO SUSTAINED MAJOR ROOF 
DAMAGE. A THIRD HOUSE WAS ALSO PARTIALLY DEROOFED IN WATTS TOWNSHIP.

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