Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread

[Yardstickgozinya]

Everybody in this forum's compassionate person. Nobody wants to see anybody get hurt and not one single gripe. Orbit of excitement is going to change any of it g********

I came back and edited this because not everybody in this forum is compassionate towards life and property but I do believe  or sub is. 

[WmsptWx]

What is going on?

[Yardstickgozinya]

Hopefully nothing now. 

 

[Yardstickgozinya]

Just observing where things we're heading.

[Yardstickgozinya]

Starting to come together, Pepper, starting to come together. The frontogenesis  starting at  6:41pm up until the last frame of the gif at 8:51 pm  was pretty fricking, incredible. I wanted to include the sandwich RGB loop, but the files are too large.  

 

[Yardstickgozinya]

Sandwich RGB . Sorry, I had  to cut off the timestamp, keys and a lot of the edges to get the file small enough. I've also included a lightning map with the last hour of detected strikes. 

 

[MAG5035]

7 hours ago, canderson said:

Thanks for this. Remarkable this occurred up here back then. Today? Much more likely with climate changes. 

The May 31st, 1985 tornado outbreak was more severe and remarkable than 1998 or any other more recent PA involved outbreak by a pretty sizeable margin. That outbreak spun up 43 tornadoes and killed 89 people (1000 injured) in PA, NY, OH and Ontario (65 alone in PA), produced PA’s only ever EF5 tornado (Wheatland), and also produced what I’m pretty sure was one of the widest tornadoes ever recorded in the US at the time (Moshannon State Forest). 

Couple screen grabs below but there’s some really informative links about this outbreak 

CTP’s 35th anniversary link- https://www.weather.gov/ctp/TornadoOutbreak_may311985

New interactive link they made for the 40th anniversary last year collaborated with NWS Pittsburgh, State College, Buffalo, and Cleveland  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e8c12f670d5648a9b64877f42660eeeb

 

 

[Yardstickgozinya]

12:30pm SPC update. Not a whole lot of change.  

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk.html

[Yardstickgozinya]

Starting to see initiation of a fleet of cells out ahead of the front in Alabama at 2:00AM probably not good situation. 

[Jns2183]

The May 31st, 1985 tornado outbreak was more severe and remarkable than 1998 or any other more recent PA involved outbreak by a pretty sizeable margin. That outbreak spun up 43 tornadoes and killed 89 people (1000 injured) in PA, NY, OH and Ontario (65 alone in PA), produced PA’s only ever EF5 tornado (Wheatland), and also produced what I’m pretty sure was one of the widest tornadoes ever recorded in the US at the time (Moshannon State Forest). 
Couple screen grabs below but there’s some really informative links about this outbreak 
CTP’s 35th anniversary link- https://www.weather.gov/ctp/TornadoOutbreak_may311985
New interactive link they made for the 40th anniversary last year collaborated with NWS Pittsburgh, State College, Buffalo, and Cleveland  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e8c12f670d5648a9b64877f42660eeeb
 


 

The old two mile wide long track ef4 going over the absolute most mountainous terrain in Pennsylvania like it was Alabama. If you ever get a chance to go look at some of the re-analysis anamoly for that day in a zoomed in fashion. The amount of absolute bonger values you get actually would almost make that tornado feel inevitable. It's that storm and the ef3 plus damage they found on mountains out west above 10000 feet that makes me laugh when people say they're safe because of the terrain they're in.

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