Summary
- A major late winter squall line brought severe weather and flash flooding to portions northeast Pennsylvania on February 25, 2017.
- The event was a classic high shear, low CAPE event with strong large-scale forcing.
- Analogs indicated a squall line with some tornado potential.
- High resolution models gave strong signals in reflectivity and updraft helicity for the event.
- An EF2 tornado occurred from northeast of Wilkes-Barre to southeast of Scranton with a discrete supercell and strong mid-level rotation.
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