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A strong storm system moved across the northeast part of the United States from April 14, to 16, 2019. As it moved across parts of central New York and northeast Pennsylvania it produced a line of thunderstorms. Some of the thunderstorms were severe producing damaging wind gusts, isolated tornadoes and hail.

Around 16 seconds into this video the line of storms that produced the severe weather starts to sweep across the area.

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For reference:

  • View local storm reports for this event.
  • For storm reports, please see National Weather Service Storm Data.
  • Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale.
  • A microburst is a convective downdraft with an affected outflow area of less than 2 1/2 miles wide and peak winds lasting less than 5 minutes. Microbursts may induce dangerous horizontal/vertical wind shears, which can adversely affect aircraft performance and cause property damage. Straight-line winds are generally any wind that is not associated with rotation, used mainly to differentiate them from tornadic winds.