It's funny we all called it a NW trend with the last storm, but it was more like a NW pop. It literally unfolded during the storm. I said I'd take my chances any day with a storm that rode from AL to central WV and east....but it got to WV and nudged into eastern OH, bringing the wtod with it. It really sucks when you can't trust models 24 hrs out.
We rarely benefit from NW trends but the most infamous one that we did was PD03. After the first wave came through the second bigger wave was supposed to be a miss south. I checked I remember checking the.18z models that Saturday evening and everything had suddenly shifted central OH into the game and that was less than 24 hours out.