UPDATED @ 9:24 p.m. Sunday: AccuWeather.com has shared some information about rainfall totals, wind speeds and other elements of today’s storms. An updated report is available on this page.
Earlier coverage is posted below.
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UPDATED @ 5:13 p.m. Sunday: At this point, about 700 West Penn Power customers in and immediately surrounding State College are still without power, according to the West Penn website. Service to them is expected to be restored by 12:15 a.m., the website notes.
A few dozen other customers elsewhere in Centre County are still without electricity, too, according to West Penn. Their power should be restored by late tonight, as well, the company reported.
Earlier coverage is posted below.
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UPDATED @ 4:56 p.m. Sunday: We’ve now added more weather-related photos to the image gallery. It’s posted to the right of this report; click on the big image to launch it.
Earlier coverage is posted below.
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Initial report, posted @ 3:56 p.m. Sunday:
Dramatic thunderstorms Sunday afternoon brought flash flooding, hail, power outages and a variety of property and tree damage to the State College area.
Shortly before 3 p.m., a resident in the College Heights area reported that nearly three inches of rain had just fallen in a roughly 20-minute period.
Across the region, StateCollege.com readers said rainwater briefly overwhelmed roadways and swamped basements. Some noted severe damage to trees.
And in downtown State College, a chunk of west-facing facade at the Calder Commons apartment building, near Hetzel Street, had fallen off — apparently due to the storms. Some building materials there collapsed into a parking area. (See local weather-related photos in the gallery to the right; click on the large image to launch the gallery.)
More than 3,000 West Penn Power customers in Centre County have suffered power outages as a result of the storms. Shortly before 4 p.m., the utility company noted that nearly 4,000 customers in the county were still without power — many of them in the State College area.
West Penn expects to restore power to all customers in the county before 6 p.m., according to its website.
At one point earlier today, a tornado warning was issued for eastern reaches of Centre County — not including State College proper.
A severe thunderstorm watch, issued by the National Weather Service, is scheduled to remain in effect through 9 p.m. for the whole county.
StateCollege.com will post additional information as it becomes available. More local photos illustrating the weather’s impact will be posted later today.
Readers who want to share their local severe-weather photos with the public — via StateCollege.com — may send them via e-mail to adam.smeltz@statecollege.com. Local news and weather updates also are distributed via Twitter at @SCNewsDesk.
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