RitualOfTheTrout

Pretty detailed write-up here: 40 Years Later: The May 31 1985 Tornado Outbreak I was living in Sarver, PA where the one F3 lifted at the time, pretty young but have some vague memories of that event. Probably a contributing factor to why Im on a weatherboard today. Also probably why this was my favorite book as a kid.

Looking at the radar, feels like a winter storm, watching the heavy returns creep NE. Your not wrong. Sunday looks nice, then we should get a taste of summer.

Wild ride in this morning through Allegheny County, roads closed, miles and miles of neighborhoods without power, no traffic lights / street lights. Debris everywhere. Some places looked like war torn hell-scapes.

Yeah, maybe plateaued right around Allegheny line, still 72mph gust nothing to sneeze at. Tree down in the little wood strip in my backyard too.

Hey appreciate the Met post. I see you are in OK, did you used to live around here or just following the severe outbreak?

Power was out about 5 minutes here, back on for now. It was pretty erie for about 5 minutes before it hit, power was flickering while it was still sunny.

Looks like it, barring some last minute weakening its right in the bullseye. Hope I can get dinner off the grill in time!

Just making my way through the comments now, lots of reports / pictures of some pretty crazy stuff out of New Kensington. At least I know I wasn't seeing things lol.

Not going to complain about missing a tornado. Lol Still not sure what we saw. The clouds were moving so fast on approach so maybe it was an illusion of perspective or something, but it sure looked like a very broad area of rotation high up in the approaching cloud deck. Won't forget this one for awhile!

That cell that just went through here just got warned for tornado... Not suprised. My son and I were watching the cloud deck approach and I swear it looked like we could see the clouds rotating, or almost moving perpendicular to the storm morion, then all hell broke lose. May have just dodged a bullet.

Thats a negative.. about 60 seconds of insane wind and hail, complete white out. That was intense. I thought the windows were going to get blown out. We don't typically get hit straight on like that.

Odd cloud movement with these storms. In-between two bands, getting some light rain now. May be enough to take some of the bite out of the main line, but time will tell.

Most of sliding just to south of me, still had a enough to get a coating. Looks like some pretty good returns in western Allegheny.

Coating on the grass here with light to moderate wind driven snow.

Yeah, it seems like lately our region is divided on bigger storms. That Jan 94 storm track was perfect. Really an unusual distribution of snow.