2002 Weather Case Studies for Central Pennsylvania

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2002-12-25 Christmas eve snow and Christmas morning snow burst for most of central Pennsylvania to New England-Draft 1
2002-12-14 Upper level low wet snow and isolated cold conveyor snow on back side of the upper level low. Two punch event! CAUTION: The document was lost before editing and gross typos are in this pdf file!
2002-12-11 Ice Storm. MD-WV-PA-NY and NY/NE PA cold converyor snow
2002-12-05 Snow and Ice Storm. Big Snow for DC-BALT-HAR-PHL-NYC...NC ICE!
2002-11-26 Strong and deep cyclone along the coast.
2002-11-16 Strong and deep cyclone along the coast.
2002-11-11 10-11 November Severe outbreak and deadly tornadoes Tennessee and Alabama
2002-10-29 Unusually early snowfall in central Pennsylvania, first since October 30-31 1993.
2002-10-16 Full coast storm with bright banding problems and 1-2 inch rainfalls
2002-10-12 locally heavy rains mid-Atlantic region and Northest. Widespread 1-3 inches with areas of 6-7 in NY KCCX radar was poor on radar estimates
2002-09-26 The tropical storm, and early in its history, hurricane, know as Isidore cross Pennsylvania during the afternoon of Friday 27 September 2002. Ahead of this system, a jet entrance region produced 1-2 inches of rain over a large part of Pennsylvania.
2002-08-24 Heavy rains and localized flooding of 24 August 2002.
2002-08-01 Northerly flow thunderstorms with severe weather off terrain in Lancaster County
2002-07-28 Severe Weather event and Pittsfield (Warren County) Tornado of 28 July 2002.
2002-05-18 Record cold and snow of 18-22 May 2002. Cold frontal passage brought snow to northwestern Pennsylvania on the 18th. Then cold air brought record lows and record low high temperatures through Wednesday morning, 22 May 2002.
2002-05-02 Large Southeast Pennsylvania supercell.
2002-04-28 Tornadoes from Missouri t0 Maryland with F5 tornado in Maryland. Several smaller tornadoes in Pennsylvania
2002-04-16 this heat wave produced record high temperatures over the Northeastern United States. It was similar in scope and magnitude to the last great April Heat wave of 1976. The document is in draft mode due to some imagery archive issues.
2002-02-01 high wind event. Highest reported values were at roof top observation points.
2002-01-06 largest single snow fall in central Pennsylvania since January 1996. Many areas in central Pennsylvania had 10-13 inches of snow. Significant CSI bands present 1900-2300 UTC during the event producing 1-3 inch per hour snowfall rates.