Jns2183

Take a look a WV and W. PA on GOES. clearing already in dry slot. Biggest issue maybe eastern component to wind. Warm front seems to be progressing rapidly through Virginia with mid 60 dew points south of DC. Warm front passage along with dry slot should scour out boundary layer and allow for at least some broken sun during prime heating . Pro

Holy crap the meso on that thing had to be huge. Reminds me of some the more famous OKC area storms. What’s amazing is that very well might of been the strongest, largest, most violent one of the day. Out of all the other PA tornadoes, the second widest was the Kane tornado at 1000 yards. It was rated F4, on the ground for 29 miles (40 minutes) from 8:00 - 8:40 PM, injured 40, killed 4. Closely following in 3rd widest was the the Watsontown tornado at 910 yards. It too was rated F4, on the ground for 19 miles from 9:25 - 10:15 PM (50 minutes), injuring 60 and killing 6. Our F4 friend above was 3,330 yards (1.9 miles), at its widest, and spent almost all of ifs 69 mile journey from 7:35 to 9:00 pm (85 mins) at least a mile wide. So it was bar the widest, most long tracked tornado of the day in PA. I counted 23 tornados in CTP chart. And the intensity ratings for the group, especially being PA are about absurd as you expect. F0 - 2 F1 - 2 F2 - 5 F3 - 6 F4 - 7 F5 - 1 It appears from about 5pm through 9 pm there was just about at all times 3-4 tornados on the ground at the same times, 2-3 of which were F3 or above. Looks like 9 tornados tracked between 10-20 miles, 8 tornados had tracks of > 20 miles, 4 > 40 miles. I would love if there was a data warehouse that listed all PA tornados on record. I’m sure a bunch of these would be stacked near the top in track length. I also wonder if towns like Kane and Watsontown had in there history any tornado rated at least f3 occur within a 40 mile radius, that occurred not on that day. . Pro

So exactly what parameters do we even need in place for their to be a legit possibility of a 70 mile long tornado rated at F4 and I believe 1-2 miles wide for the majority of its track to blaze across the mountains west to East laughing at everyone lulled into complacency at seeing countless squall line poop, puke, and decapitate themselves on the same track? Exactly how many times have we seen parameters that at least roughly equal that days ones for our area throughout the entire period where it’s possible to compare? Surely this had to be some PSU MET PhD dissertation or research project in the last 30+ years. Whose got access to PSU library that can check? . Pro

I understand the parameters are pretty out there, but that statement feels more in line with “if you see sun before noon, say hello, you are now in Wheatland, Pennsylvania; it’s may 31st, 1985, enjoy the unique clouds on offer today”. . Pro

Is there a table or spreadsheet that has new cases, total cases, deaths, recovery for each day the last 2-3 weeks for PA? . Pro