Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued October 16 at 3:56PM EDT until October 16 at 4:30PM EDT by NWS Binghamton NY
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At 356 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Falls to near Sugar Notch to near Shumans, moving east at 45 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Falls, Hazleton, Muhlenberg, Dunmore, Kingston, Berwick, Nanticoke, and Plains. For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Heavy rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
- Event time
- Source last updated
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- Provider
- NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
- Location
- PA, US
- Severity
- Severe
- area
- Lackawanna, PA; Luzerne, PA; Wyoming, PA
- event
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning
- onset
- 2026-10-16T15:56:00-04:00
- states
- ["PA"]
- urgency
- Immediate
- certainty
- Observed
- effective
- 2026-10-16T15:56:00-04:00
- message id
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.5085e3654783882e0c7280124d26d7439903bdc8.001.1
- references
- ["urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.ae4759b01a46544a3cd8ce245dde86397aa53440.001.1"]
- instruction
- For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Heavy rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
- message type
- Update
- freshness minutes
- 60
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