UPDATE (8:14 p.m.)
An estimated 9,000 Duquesne Light customers are without power. Repairs are underway along Monongahela Boulevard in White Oak.
Right now: An estimated 9 thousand Duquesne Light customers without power. Repairs underway along Monongahela Blvd in White Oak. pic.twitter.com/CxVEh1lJ21
— Mike Holden (@WPXIMikeHolden) June 14, 2017
ORIGINAL STORY:
Showers and strong storms fired up all afternoon across the Pittsburgh area on Tuesday, prompting Kennywood Park to close early.
Due to inclement weather, Kennywood Park will be closing this evening at 5:30 p.m.
— Holiday Lights at Kennywood! (@Kenny_Kangaroo) June 13, 2017
The Kennywood Flood of 2017 pic.twitter.com/yIfJDT9SNd
— Justin Decheck (@d3check) June 13, 2017
#BREAKING Kennywood CLOSED bc of inclimate weather. Park goers tell me there was "a couple feet of water" in the entry tunnel. @WPXI pic.twitter.com/DwrCJU13RL
— Mike Holden (@WPXIMikeHolden) June 13, 2017
People who were at the park told Channel 11 News there was a couple of feet of water in the park's tunnel. However, Chris Salerno, Kennywood's director of marketing, issued the following statement:
The park closed not due to flooding but due to heavy rains and forecast for additional inclement weather this evening. Note the tunnel that runs under Kennywood Blvd temporarily flooded as it occasionally does after a deluge. Typically the water reseeds after the storm ends as it did this evening. When the tunnel flooded this evening we exited guests out of an alternate exit- Gate 2.Guests exited in an orderly fashion. We provided as many guests as possible with complimentary rain-checks to return on another nicer day.
In other parts of the region, here were reports of downed trees in Westmoreland County, quarter-sized hail in Allegheny County and a creek outside of its banks in Lawrence County.
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Slow-moving storms have sparked flash-flood warnings across the WPXI-TV viewing area through Tuesday evening. The heavy rain is expected to taper off as the night goes on.
The same cold front causing storms Tuesday will become nearly stationary, providing the focus for storms again Wednesday.
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Because the storms will be slow-moving, the chance for heavy rainfall returns. Severe Weather Team 11 said much of the region is under a marginal risk for severe storms and flash flooding.
The unsettled weather will stick around through the weekend.
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