Whineminster Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 supercell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 It was really tiny A friend of mine in Worcester had pea sized hail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 First thunder of the year at my place yesterday. My wife got to see multiple C-G strikes and heard lots of loud crashes as the storm formed just to our east - nearly all of our 0.16" came later that evening. I still haven't heard thunder this year, as the action was all done before I got home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Exactly 29 years ago... 00z in Pittsburgh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Here's the WSR-77 from PSU showing that monster tornado just north of I-80 tearing through the middle of nowhere (thankfully) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 Exactly 29 years ago... 00z in Pittsburgh. That was some event...the number of violent tornadoes from that is insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 May 30-June-2 is epic for the northeast. Lots of good events between those dates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 That was some event...the number of violent tornadoes from that is insane. The number of violent tornadoes in that outbreak would make it an impressive outbreak in the Great Plains. For that to happen in Pennsylvania is nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Greatest tornado event that far northeast by a pretty wide margin, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 It's one thing to get that kind of thermodynamic profile... it happens every once in a while as we know. But to get that kind of profile with 50 knot winds at 850 and some strong veering in the 0-1/0-3km layer is pretty wild for this area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 The number of violent tornadoes in that outbreak would make it an impressive outbreak in the Great Plains. For that to happen in Pennsylvania is nuts. That would be an all-timer even in the Plains, that many violent tornadoes usually doesn't happen in a single event in the Plains. Even in the Southeast, it would be an all-timer. I've mentioned this before but an event this intense this far northeast is probably more rare than an outbreak of the caliber of 4/27/11, 4/11/65, 4/3/74, 3/21/32, 2/19-20/1884, etc. Grazulis placed the odds at about 1 in 75,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Greatest tornado event that far northeast by a pretty wide margin, IMO. Nothing really comes close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 That would be an all-timer even in the Plains, that many violent tornadoes usually doesn't happen in a single event in the Plains. Even in the Southeast, it would be an all-timer. I forgot about the violent tornadoes in Ontario that day as well. 43 tornadoes total -28 sig tors - 9 violent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavy_wx Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Here's the WSR-77 from PSU showing that monster tornado just north of I-80 tearing through the middle of nowhere (thankfully) Cool! Probably would have had a nice debris signature going through the Moshannon Forest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 The Moshannon tornado would've been a complete disaster had it struck any town of significance, the thing was gigantic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I've seen some videos from that day. Pretty crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Cool! Probably would have had a nice debris signature going through the Moshannon Forest. Oh yeah, no doubt. That buzz saw was a mile wide and basically OTG for 70+ miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I've seen some videos from that day. Pretty crazy. The video of the F5 in Mercer PA is wild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 The video of the F5 in Mercer PA is wild. Yeah that's the one I saw I believe. What an outbreak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Yeah that's the one I saw I believe. What an outbreak. I would chase that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I would chase that one Though... come to think of it... that drive to State College on I-80 is god awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 May 30-June-2 is epic for the northeast. Lots of good events between those dates. This was pretty spectacular also. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/casepages/may30-311998page.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Ryan I'm mobile, you have the link for that outbreak? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 This was pretty spectacular also. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/casepages/may30-311998page.htm There was the tornado outbreak a few days later. Actually went though the town my friend lives in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 It's one thing to get that kind of thermodynamic profile... it happens every once in a while as we know. But to get that kind of profile with 50 knot winds at 850 and some strong veering in the 0-1/0-3km layer is pretty wild for this area. To have that anywhere can be a bit impressive...sometimes when you start exceeding 40-45 knots at 850mb you can start running into issues with updrafts really being able to build but you have a very potent thermodynamic environment coupled with enhanced lift from jet quadrant it will work. You can also run into the issue of having such strong WAA and theta-e advection you pop crap but not when you have an EML in place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Ryan I'm mobile, you have the link for that outbreak? The wikipedia article is good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_United_States%E2%80%93Canada_tornado_outbreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 This was pretty spectacular also. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/casepages/may30-311998page.htm The span of May 29th to June 2nd, 1998 was epic for this region...June 2nd was much more for PA, portions of NY down into MD and WV but one of the most underrated parts of that timeframe was what occurred on Friday, May 29th and how that day helped set the stage ofr all that to occur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 There was the tornado outbreak a few days later. Actually went though the town my friend lives in. Yeah there was another outbreak on June 2nd in PA and upstate NY again too I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 This was pretty spectacular also. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/casepages/may30-311998page.htm Yeah '98 and '89 are no doubt impressive... but none is even close to the same league as 1985. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 Yeah there was another outbreak on June 2nd in PA and upstate NY again too I think. I don't think upstate NY got into it...i think it was more PA on south...into MD/WV and perhaps into DE/NJ too but think it was mainly PAMD/WV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.