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[Delayed Report] On Oct 19, at 12:05 PM EDT, 2 W Nicholasville [Jessamine Co, KY] NWS Storm Survey reports Tornado. NWS storm survey team determined an EF1 tornado with maximum winds of 90mph impacted western Nicholasville, KY on October 19,... #kywx https://t.co/z4YK5zEHBC
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Really shocked how the forecast played out last night. You couldn't get a more pronounced negative tilt and wind shear. One tornado warning down over the DC area but beyond that nothing. I was surprised it wasn't a bit more pronounced in rain/wind.
32 MILLION PEOPLE are under a low-end tornado threat overnight across the Northeast, including New Jersey, New York City, and Philadelphia.
Make sure to have multiple ways to receive warnings, as a couple of brief tornadoes are possible.
I took pressure measurements as a narrow cold frontal rain band passed through State College this evening. A perturbation pressure of 1.75 mb is quite respectable, and it's cool to see the suppression of (presumably mostly mechanical) turbulence after the frontal passage.
Light analysis from PIT-
-Hodograph- arc'd as it should be.
-SbCAPE in the 200's-300's. Just where it was 4 years ago.
-A mild cap sits at 800 mb up.
-Wind direction- again SE'ly at surface and W'ly in the mid-upper levels
-Dew points are only *just* reaching the upper 50's
Caught some very suspicious cloud tags with strong vertical motion off the ground as this small kink in the squall and weak vorticity couplet came toward me in Mercer County PA a few minutes ago, some video screenshots here
Gust to 44 MPH reported at Zanesville at 1232 PM associated with the main line of showers. Similar gusts can be expected as the line moves east over the next few hours.
The NWS/NOAA meteorologists putting out the #tornado warnings and #severe warnings tonight - are doing so WITHOUT PAY. They don't know when their next paycheck will be. But they have to keep working to protect lives and property.