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Severe WX April 11th-13th, 2020 Severe Weather Threat

Kory said:
Not sure if this was posted earlier, but I Atmospheric Anti-Climax out laughing.

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I was watching that live. I couldn’t believe he read that straight faced just kept on going. I think he read it straight off of Facebook or twitter though.,,

Well, I saw it on channel 6 not JP but the other guy...
 
skelly said:
I was watching that live. I couldn’t believe he read that straight faced just kept on going. I think he read it straight off of Facebook or twitter though.,,
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I saw it live as well. I believe he's done it before. It's just that it's literally one of the only truly recognizable landmarks in the area. Have to play the hand you are dealt!

Everyone in/around that area knows that place. It's crazy.
 
Yeah they just mentioned power outages on abc3340 totally neglected to mention Cullman.

Stephen Quinn been hugging people on air, damn the social distancing...
 
buckeye05 said:
That was likely from this tornado that moved through the Trenton area. Separate from the East Brainerd/Collegedale tornado.
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Oh yes, it was from that tornado. I wasn't aware of the Collegedale tornado. I'm busy working the event and only paying attention to Georgia. My apologies for any confusion.
 
Hearing reports of homes and buildings collapsed in the eastern Chattanooga metro, with people trapped. Not a good situation.
 
Damage reports around Eton, GA from the TOR warned cell earlier. The NW corner of GA has taken a beating.
 
So far BMX has elected not to continue the warnings on the hopefully weakening line out of Mississippi, but to be honest I don't think they even qualify for thunderstorm status anymore as weakening showers with a nasty gust front. Will probably get a special weather statement on them

What a colorful palette
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mike36 said:
There was a popular TV meteorologist here in Atlanta that basically said today would be like 4/27. The problem is that sets the bar so high as that is literally the gold standard of all time as far as outbreaks go. He also sets himself up for criticism if the system underperforms. I think the two super outbreaks should stay in a separate category from even "standard" high risk days. Tonight is a reminder to me that everything has to fall into place perfectly for those rare outbreaks, and it was unwise for him to imply this would be as severe as 4/27.
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Actually, you could say that 27 Apr 11 had an "Extreme 45% risk." Then the "standard," but nonetheless rare, high risk at 30% surrounded the 45% contour . I can't say that was #/5 because all we had was slight/moderate/high 9 years ago. But, that would now be a 6/5.

While we all griped, I think that the SPC was right not to pull the High risk lever. We expected a violent tornado, and that unfortunately happened & killed 6 people in MS. The rest of everything was such a mess I don't know what we will finally wind up with when the counting is over. But this wasn't a 27 Apr 11.

This was a severe outbreak to remember, and still hasn't wrapped up S & E of AL. So we can't yet close the book on this one. Hopefully there won't be anymore deaths & not much more damage/destruction.
 
Cell north of Cedartown trying to get something going.

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Kory said:
Dang I was literally at the Jack's just to the left out of the frame. Looks like we have water into those apartments.

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We had a downpour here in NE Bham for over 1 hr after the tornado threat ended. So unfortunately that flooding doesn't surprise me.
 
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