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Instance of SCP-1746

Item #: SCP-1746

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation’s astronomical/meteorological forecasting office is to predict the formation of instances of SCP-1746 by gathering and processing weather and climate data from national and international weather forecasting institutions, ground-based and space-based auroral electromagnetic monitors and the Foundation’s own sources, in order that Protocol 1746-Aleph (see Document HG-1746-Aleph) can be performed within the projected path of SCP-1746 during the applicable window of time.

Instances of SCP-1746 tend to form within fewer than 26 minutes of the earliest time that their formation can be predicted from available data under the current forecasting model, and the path projection of a given instance of SCP-1746 can only be forecasted with greater than 55% accuracy after the instance has formed. This presents a very brief window of time for the necessary resources to be deployed to perform the protocol in order to reduce or eliminate the damage that would otherwise result from an instance of SCP-1746.

For this reason, in order to permit Protocol 1746-Aleph to be performed within the target area during the applicable window of time, the Foundation has established and maintains thirty-six (36) mobile task forces (designated MTF-1746-Aleph/A through MTF-1746-Aleph/AJ) which specialize in the application of Protocol 1746-Aleph. Each MTF-1746-Aleph task force is stationed in an area within 12 minutes flight time of a geographic area known to be susceptible to SCP-1746. Each such task force is equipped with two (2) modified Boeing CH-46 (or equivalent) heavy-lift helicopters, four (4) reinforced steel 12-meter cargo containers (in which the protocol equipment is to be stored), and the equipment listed on the manifest appended to DOCUMENT HG-1746-Aleph.

Each such task force is to be staffed with an appropriate number of the following staff members, together with alternates:

  • Two (2) qualified helicopter pilots
  • Four (4) construction engineers and two (2) qualified surveyors
  • Eleven (11) trained actors (consisting of six (6) males and five (5) females, each meeting their respective designated specifications as detailed in DOCUMENT HG-1746-Aleph
  • One (1) squirrel wrangler
  • Two live (2) mature female eastern grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)

It is not recommended that any of a task force’s actors or the wrangler perform “double duty” as pilot, engineer or surveyor due to the risk that injuries could be sustained to personnel during the unpacking and deployment of the equipment under stress, which could render an actor or the wrangler unfit or unable to perform their prescribed duties within the applicable specifications.

Care should be taken to properly fuel and maintain the appliances and motor vehicles included among the protocol equipment, as equipment failures may render it impossible to perform the protocol within the applicable specifications. In particular, redundant systems should be employed to prevent the frozen dairy confections from liquefying before the specified time.

Following the forecasting of a path of a given instance of SCP-1746, the relevant task force is to carry out the following steps:

  1. The task force is to deploy via helicopter to an appropriate site within the flight path
  2. The task force’s engineers and surveyors are to precisely install and arrange the equipment, and place the actors and animals, at the site
  3. At the appropriate time (determined at the direction of the Foundation’s 1746-Aleph computation office based on meteorological data), the actors are to perform (and the wrangler is to cause the task force’s animals to perform) their respective actions in accordance with the script provided by the computation office.
  4. Following a successful completion of the foregoing steps, the task force is to break down, load and remove its equipment and personnel in good order. Following a failure to successfully complete the steps, task force personnel are to retreat to the shipping containers as a safety measure.

Description: SCP-1746 is an anomalous and extremely violent storm pattern. Instances of SCP-1746 are also characterized by “pulsations” of dozens or hundreds of simultaneous lightning strikes concurrent with episodes of ball lightning, by extremely violent wind gusts, and by sudden, powerful updrafts capable of causing extensive damage. Non-Foundation climatological organizations have compared instances of SCP-1746 to series of multiple Fujita-scale F5 storms affecting the relevant area in rapid succession. The electromagnetic phenomena associated with an instance of SCP-1746 result in instances being far more powerful and destructive than similarly-sized non-anomalous storms. Instances of SCP-1746 are remarkably regular and consistent from instance to instance in shape, speed, size, patterns of wind speed, gusting and barometric pressure, cloud structure and the timing and frequency of lightning strikes.1.

The remarkable regularity of instances of SCP-1746 has made it possible for a protocol to be formulated to dissipate the instance of SCP-1746 and avoid the catastrophic damage that would otherwise result from it. The basis for the effectiveness of Protocol 1746-Aleph is imperfectly understood.2.

The development of Protocol 1746-Aleph originated after an instance of SCP-1746 formed near [REDACTED], Texas on May ██, 1966 but suddenly dissipated. Foundation climatologists who had been studying SCP-1746 before that time had hypothesized that it may be possible to disrupt an instance of SCP-1746 by generating appropriate atmospheric and electromagnetic stimulus; the dissipation of that instance appeared to confirm the hypothesis and pose the question of how the stimuli had, in this case, been serendipitously produced. Fortunately, a film crew that had been filming a documentary in a small town within the projected path of the SCP-1746 instance had recorded a sequence of events which Foundation climatologists, statisticians and mathematicians were able to verify as producing the required stimulus. The Foundation was subsequently able to develop Protocol 1746-Aleph by studying the film and reproducing the necessary series of events to generate the stimuli. Protocol 1746-Aleph, therefore, represents a deliberate effort to produce the disruptive stimulus by artificially and accurately re-creating the precise sequence of events that generated the stimulus in 1966.

DOCUMENT HG-1746-Aleph (abridged)

==Drewbear's edit==

Procedures: The Foundation's Meteorological Department is to maintain a dedicated team to utilize all available civilian, military, and Foundation resources to review live meteorological data in order to predict nascent formations likely to develop into instances of SCP-1746. Current methodologies are able to predict these formations no earlier than 26 minutes prior to a manifestation. Path prediction is only accurate for greater than 55% once an instance has formed.

An unknown combination of exterior factors has created 36 known locations that are particularly susceptible to formations of SCP-1746, and response teams (designated MTF-1746-Aleph/A through MTF-1746-Aleph/AJ) are stationed so as to be able to deploy to a manifestation site within an average of 12 minutes of the Meteorology Department predicting a manifestation and install and arrange all equipment, facilities, and props within the projected path of SCP-1746. The personnel manifest for all deployed teams is to include the following roster, none of which are to provide overlapping services for any given response:

Two (2) qualified helicopter pilots
Four (4) construction engineers and two (2) qualified surveyors
Eleven (11) trained actors (consisting of six (6) males and five (5) females, each meeting their respective designated specifications as detailed in DOCUMENT HG-1746-Aleph
One (1) squirrel wrangler
Two live (2) mature female eastern grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)

==subsequent rewrite==

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Instance of SCP-1746

Item #: SCP-1746

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation’s astronomical/meteorological forecasting office is to predict the formation of instances of SCP-1746 by gathering and processing weather and climate data from national and international weather forecasting institutions, ground-based and space-based auroral electromagnetic monitors and the Foundation’s own sources. Instances of SCP-1746 tend to form within fewer than 26 minutes of the earliest time that their formation can be predicted from available data under the current forecasting model, and the path projection of a given instance of SCP-1746 can only be forecasted with greater than 55% accuracy after the instance has formed. This presents a very brief window of time for the necessary resources to be deployed to perform Protocol 1746-Aleph (see Document HG-1746-Aleph).

Thirty-six (36) mobile task forces (designated MTF-1746-Aleph/A through MTF-1746-Aleph/AJ) which specialize in the application of Protocol 1746-Aleph are each to be stationed in an area within 12 minutes flight time of a geographic area known to be susceptible to SCP-1746. Each such task force is equipped with two (2) modified Boeing CH-46 (or equivalent) heavy-lift helicopters, four (4) reinforced steel 12-meter cargo containers (in which the protocol equipment is to be stored), and the equipment listed on the manifest appended to DOCUMENT HG-1746-Aleph.

Each of these task forces is to be staffed with an appropriate number of the following staff members, together with alternates:

  • Two (2) qualified helicopter pilots
  • Four (4) construction engineers and two (2) qualified surveyors
  • Eleven (11) trained actors (consisting of six (6) males and five (5) females, each meeting their respective designated specifications as detailed in DOCUMENT HG-1746-Aleph
  • One (1) squirrel wrangler
  • Two live (2) mature female eastern grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)

It is not recommended that any of a task force’s actors or the wrangler perform “double duty” as pilot, engineer or surveyor due to the risk that injuries could be sustained to personnel during the unpacking and deployment of the equipment under stress, which could render an actor or the wrangler unfit or unable to perform their prescribed duties within the applicable specifications.

Care should be taken to properly fuel and maintain the appliances and motor vehicles included among the protocol equipment, as equipment failures may render it impossible to perform the protocol within the applicable specifications. In particular, redundant systems should be employed to prevent the frozen dairy confections from liquefying before the specified time.

Following the forecasting of a path of a given instance of SCP-1746, the relevant task force is deploy to an appropriate site within the flight path, precisely install and arrange the equipment and props, and carry out the protocol precisely in accordance with the script.

Description: SCP-1746 is an anomalous and extremely violent storm pattern. Instances of SCP-1746 are also characterized by “pulsations” of dozens or hundreds of simultaneous lightning strikes concurrent with episodes of ball lightning, intermittent hurricane-force updrafts and wind gusts, and electromagnetic phenomena which result in the instances being far more powerful and destructive than similarly-sized non-anomalous storms. Non-Foundation climatological organizations have compared instances of SCP-1746 to multiple concurrent F5-class storms.

Instances of SCP-1746 are remarkably regular and consistent from instance to instance in shape, speed, size, patterns of wind speed, gusting and barometric pressure, cloud structure and the timing and frequency of lightning strikes. The uniformity of instances of SCP-1746 has made it possible for a protocol to be formulated to dissipate the instance of SCP-1746 and avoid the catastrophic damage that would otherwise result from it. The basis for the effectiveness of Protocol 1746-Aleph is imperfectly understood.6

The development of Protocol 1746-Aleph originated after an instance of SCP-1746 formed near [REDACTED], Texas on May ██, 1966 but suddenly dissipated. Foundation climatologists who had been studying SCP-1746 before that time had hypothesized that it may be possible to disrupt an instance of SCP-1746 by generating appropriate atmospheric and electromagnetic stimulus; the dissipation of that instance appeared to confirm the hypothesis and pose the question of how the stimuli had, in this case, been serendipitously produced. Fortunately, a film crew that had been filming a documentary in a small town within the projected path of the SCP-1746 instance had recorded a sequence of events which Foundation climatologists, statisticians and mathematicians were able to verify as producing the required stimulus. The Foundation was subsequently able to develop Protocol 1746-Aleph by studying the film and reproducing the necessary series of events to generate the stimuli. Protocol 1746-Aleph, therefore, represents a deliberate effort to produce the disruptive stimulus by artificially and accurately re-creating the precise sequence of events that generated the stimulus in 1966.

DOCUMENT HG-1746-Aleph (abridged)

==subsequent rewrite==

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Instance of SCP-1746

Item #: SCP-1746

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation’s astronomical/meteorological forecasting office is to predict the formation of instances of SCP-1746 by gathering and processing weather and climate data from national and international weather forecasting institutions, ground-based and space-based auroral electromagnetic monitors and the Foundation’s own sources. Instances of SCP-1746 tend to form within fewer than 33 minutes of the earliest time that their formation can be predicted from available data under the current forecasting model, and the path projection of a given instance of SCP-1746 can only be forecasted with greater than 55% accuracy after the instance has formed. This presents a very brief window of time for the necessary resources to be deployed to perform Protocol 1746-Aleph (see Document HG-1746-Aleph).

Thirty-six (36) mobile task forces (designated MTF-1746-Aleph/A through MTF-1746-Aleph/AJ) which specialize in the application of Protocol 1746-Aleph are each to be stationed in an area within 12 minutes flight time of a geographic area known to be susceptible to SCP-1746. Each such task force is equipped with two (2) modified Boeing CH-46 (or equivalent) heavy-lift helicopters, four (4) reinforced steel 12-meter cargo containers (in which the protocol equipment is to be stored), and the equipment listed on the manifest appended to DOCUMENT HG-1746-Aleph.

Each of these task forces is to be staffed with an appropriate number of the following staff members, together with alternates:

  • Two (2) qualified helicopter pilots
  • Four (4) construction engineers and two (2) qualified surveyors
  • Seven (7) trained actors (consisting of four (4) males and three (3) females), meeting the following specifications:
    • Actor M1: Male, at least 66kg in mass.
    • Actor M2: Mae, at least 50 kg in mass, belonging to Y-chromosome haplogroup O3
    • Actor M3: Male, at least 75kg in mass, left leg amputated above the knee, who has consumed at least 0.7 liters of ethyl alcohol (solutions exceeding 40% ABV preferred) within 1 hour preceding the application of Protocol 1746-Aleph.
    • Actor M4: Male, at least 56kg in mass, maximum age 34 years, belonging to Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a
    • Actor F1: Female, at least 53 kg in mass.
    • Actor F2: Female, mass between 58 and 62 kg, wearing cosmetics meeting the specifications described in DOCUMENT HG-1746-Aleph, Appendix M4-A.
    • Actor F3: Female, maximum mass 24.5kg, who is a lineal descendant of the Actor M4 engaged in the protocol application.
  • One (1) squirrel wrangler
  • Two live (2) mature female eastern grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)

It is not recommended that any of a task force’s actors or the wrangler perform “double duty” as pilot, engineer or surveyor due to the risk that injuries could be sustained to personnel during the unpacking and deployment of the equipment under stress, which could render an actor or the wrangler unfit or unable to perform their prescribed duties within the applicable specifications.

Following the forecasting of a path of a given instance of SCP-1746, the relevant task force is deploy to an appropriate site within the flight path, the engineers and surveyors are to precisely install and arrange the equipment, and the actors are to carry out the protocol in accordance with the specifications. DOCUMENT HG-1746-Aleph, together with its exhibits and schedules, comprehensively describes the steps that are to be taken to perform the protocol. All actions described in that document must be precisely timed, placed and vectorized consistent with the tolerances set forth in the document. The following protocol performance issues merit special attention:

  • Care should be taken to properly fuel and maintain the appliances and motor vehicles included among the protocol equipment, as equipment failures may render it impossible to perform the protocol within the applicable specifications. The fuel used in the Buick Wildcat must be leaded gasoline and must be free of additives except as specified in the protocol.
  • Redundant cooling systems should be employed to prevent the frozen dairy confection from liquefying before the specified time.
  • The positioning and height of the traffic light are to be adjusted depending upon the timing of the protocol's performance in relation to the lunar tidal cycle.
  • Actor M1 is to be dressed as an Episcopalian priest (regardless of Actor M1's actual religious affiliation, which has not been shown to be relevant).
  • The Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), must be cut to a mean height of 7 to 9 cm. The willow tree (Salix alba) must be female.
  • The change cup carried by Actor M3 (the hobo) must contain only coins satisfying pre-Coinage Act of 1965 metallurgical standards.
  • Vehicle 2 (the Dodge Dart) must be driven at a constant velocity of 10.72 m/s ±0.04 m/s in accordance with the specified vector, with the song "Till There Was You" (original cast recording), commencing at 36 seconds into the track concurrently with the vehicle's entry into the protocol zone.
  • Immediately after dropping the frozen dairy confection, Actor F3 is to adopt body language consistent with distress over loss of the dessert.
  • The head of lettuce in the grocery bag must be Lactuca sativa L. var. longifolia. The use of any other variety of lettuce is prohibited.

Description: SCP-1746 is an anomalous and extremely violent storm pattern. Instances of SCP-1746 are also characterized by “pulsations” of dozens or hundreds of simultaneous lightning strikes concurrent with episodes of ball lightning, intermittent hurricane-force updrafts and wind gusts, and electromagnetic phenomena which result in the instances being far more powerful and destructive than similarly-sized non-anomalous storms. Non-Foundation climatological organizations have compared instances of SCP-1746 to multiple concurrent F5-class storms.

Instances of SCP-1746 are remarkably regular and consistent from instance to instance in shape, speed, size, patterns of wind speed, gusting and barometric pressure, cloud structure and the timing and frequency of lightning strikes. The uniformity of instances of SCP-1746 has made it possible for a protocol to be formulated to dissipate the instance of SCP-1746 and avoid the catastrophic damage that would otherwise result from it. Although the basis for the effectiveness of Protocol 1746-Aleph is imperfectly understood, it has been theorized that Protocol 1746-Aleph, when precisely timed and performed, creates microclimatological and electromagnetic conditions, which result in a positive feedback loop that dissipates the storm.

The development of Protocol 1746-Aleph originated after an instance of SCP-1746 formed near [REDACTED], Texas on May ██, 1966 but suddenly dissipated. Foundation climatologists who had been studying SCP-1746 before that time had hypothesized that it may be possible to disrupt an instance of SCP-1746 by generating appropriate atmospheric and electromagnetic stimulus; the dissipation of that instance appeared to confirm the hypothesis and pose the question of how the stimuli had, in this case, been serendipitously produced. Fortunately, a television news crew that had been filming for stock footage purposes in the town of ████ (within the projected path of the SCP-1746 instance) had recorded a sequence of events which Foundation climatologists, statisticians and mathematicians were able to verify as producing the required stimulus. The Foundation was subsequently able to develop Protocol 1746-Aleph by studying the film and reproducing the necessary series of events to generate the stimuli. Protocol 1746-Aleph, therefore, represents a deliberate effort to produce the disruptive stimulus by artificially and accurately re-creating the precise sequence of events that generated the stimulus in 1966.

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