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Severe Weather Threat May 20-21, 2025

I for one am glad Smithville and Monroe County avoided getting under a tornado warning. I was worried about that storm in Pontotoc County earlier prompting a tornado warning.
 

Honestly, I think this intercept scared him quite a bit. Later in the stream, he said he thought they were going to get lofted when they got hit and the vehicle started moving. He was more scared than some of the others in the vehicle. They didn’t really have time to deploy because they were still positioning for probe launch, which it sounds like was successful.

It was an incredibly intense vortex that hit them that blew up within a matter of seconds, like violent tornado intensity. That thing stayed violent for a minute or two.
 
Looks like the storms in North-Central AL are starting to congeal into a QLCS as expected. Keeping an eye on the lone storm about to enter North Jefferson County. Its trajectory takes it through some family and friends for me in that area, so hopefully it grows more upstream to the line and lower a threat of a tornado. We don’t need any more tonight.

Damaging winds can be an issue to, so alert is still warranted for the areas heading east and in the watch areas.

South of I-20, I’m bearish on anything developing at this point, but still monitoring. Some areas likely will receive no rain at all from this, and I can probably speak for some folks that they’re totally fine with no rain given how much many areas have received this month so far.
 
Starting to turn into a proper QLCS, but at the same time, lots and lots of circulations. Might see a bout of QLCS tornadoes across eastern AL.
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Persistent rotation continues in storms north of I-20 in Alabama. Tornadic storms are also ongoing in NW GA. Storms may weaken with time, but I reckon there's likely still a few more hours of this left.
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Despite waning upper-level support, sufficient SRH persists in the low levels, and is in fact expanding eastward. Instability also continues to stick around. Likely will fuel these storms for some time.
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