AC Milan - Manchester City @ Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, Harrisburg: tornadoes, title)

[gortonator]

Originally Posted by UKyank

For anyone at the game, Man City's 3rd goal was awesome

All Man City goals are awesome Was a fun game, especially the first half. And a lightening storm is very Manchester appropriate. A 5-1 massacre always makes me smile.

EveKendall, I assume it was your associates who ran on in the 89th minute for a selfie with mad Mario? Seems very quiet in your part of the Squirrels tonight - careful with that grappa

[UKyank]

Originally Posted by gortonator

EveKendall, I assume it was your associates who ran on in the 89th minute for a selfie with mad Mario? Seems very quiet in your part of the Squirrels tonight - careful with that grappa

[WhoIsStanwix?]

I wasn't able to make it as a men's league playoff hockey game called, but glad to hear it was fun and the stadium was half filled at least. 35k isn't bad. They play exhibitions at Fenway, only 37k seats there to fill. I will take 35k in a much smaller and more geographically isolated metro on a day where the local news stations were pumping up their ratings with tornado warnings that amounted to nothing. Or at least that's what my mother tells me.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by WhoIsStanwix?

I wasn't able to make it as a men's league playoff hockey game called, but glad to hear it was fun and the stadium was half filled at least. 35k isn't bad. They play exhibitions at Fenway, only 37k seats there to fill. I will take 35k in a much smaller and more geographically isolated metro on a day where the local news stations were pumping up their ratings with tornado warnings that amounted to nothing. Or at least that's what my mother tells me.

Yeah, that's all a tornado warning is: a ratings ploy.

[JimboPGH]

Originally Posted by Gnutella

Yeah, that's all a tornado warning is: a ratings ploy.

Up here, it usually is.

Tornados are pretty damn rare.

[FreightTrainRunning]

The tornado warnings come from the National Weather Service who I assume, doesn't care about TV ratings.

[Evergrey]

Looks like a lot of people came from out of town... such as Columbus, Ohio.

[erieguy]

Is fascinating that people watch, believe, follow, etc..., what the local weather person has to say.

If/when the NWS posts a warning, its certainly a possibility of being correct.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by JimboPGH

Up here, it usually is.

Tornados are pretty damn rare.

They're more common in western Pennsylvania than people realize. There were tornado outbreaks in 1944, 1985 and 1998. There were also violent tornadoes in Allegheny County in 1963 and 1980.

Each outbreak except for the two in 1998 involved at least one tornado of F3+ intensity in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. In 1944, an F4 tornado passed through Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties, hitting Dravosburg, McKeesport and Port Vue the hardest. In 1985, an F3 tornado passed through Beaver and Butler Counties, hitting Beaver Falls and Evans City the hardest. The first 1998 outbreak produced an F3 tornado in Somerset County, hitting the town of Salisbury, and the second produced an F1 tornado in Allegheny County that started in Carnegie and passed directly through the city of Pittsburgh. The 1963 tornado was rated F3 and affected Glassport. The 1980 tornado was rated F4 and affected the "Alle-Kiski" Valley, specifically Natrona Heights and Apollo. All but the F1 tornado in the city and the F3 tornado in Glassport had fatalities associated with them.

[JimboPGH]

Originally Posted by Gnutella

They're more common in western Pennsylvania than people realize. There were tornado outbreaks in 1944, 1985 and 1998. There were also violent tornadoes in Allegheny County in 1963 and 1980.

Like I said, they're pretty rare.

The problem is that anytime there's even a remote threat of a tornado touching down, the local news FREAKS THE **** OUT over it and blows it out of proportion, as local news everywhere is wont to do (it was actually always worse with the local news in Harrisburg).