Severe WX March 29-30, 2022 Severe Event

[Weatherphreak]

Starting to wonder if heavy rain starts to fill in ahead of the line in Tennessee and North Alabama and diminishes the threat some for those areas.

 

[Mr. Clark]

Starting to wonder if heavy rain starts to fill in ahead of the line in Tennessee and North Alabama and diminishes the threat some for those areas.

Yeah, I was surprised to see some rain on the radar in the Shoals a few minutes ago.

 

[bwalk]

There seems to be some disparity in the location of the more intense wind gusts. Some people are obviously getting winds strong enough to cause power outages.

 

[Tennie]

Media reported a tornado near Jackson, MS.

 

[OHWX97]

Media reported a tornado near Jackson, MS.

It’s taking a track through the heart of the city. This could be very bad.

 

[AL_ham_op]

Starting to wonder if heavy rain starts to fill in ahead of the line in Tennessee and North Alabama and diminishes the threat some for those areas.

That's what I'm thinking. This may wind up being a heavy rain event rather than a wind/tornado event.

 

[Tennie]

It looks like there's a CC drop associated with the Jackson storm. Pray that everyone is in shelter!

 

[Equus]

Confirmed tornado went right through Jackson, CC drop may be there but it's very noisy being so close to radar

 

[OHWX97]

There’s likely another damaging tornado that developed over northern Jackson.

 

[Kragg]

We've got discrete cells starting to form ahead of the line in MS.

And of course they’re in a radar hole right now

 

[TileDude]

There seems to be some disparity in the location of the more intense wind gusts. Some people are obviously getting winds strong enough to cause power outages.

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Birmingham airport has already reported a gust to 53

 

[Mr. Clark]

Jackson TV Station...

Channel 3

 

[TileDude]

Alabama Power already reports over 12k outages

 

[Fred Gossage]

Starting to wonder if heavy rain starts to fill in ahead of the line in Tennessee and North Alabama and diminishes the threat some for those areas.

The line isn't instability-driven today to begin with. If anything, the rain might have the effect you don't want and allow the dewpoints to climb a little, lower the temperatures closer to them, and lower the LCL heights a little. With the line not really being modulated much at all by instability today, but rather by the wind mechanics, you're not going to kill the line off with low instability until it completely runs into full-on stable air with no instability. Now, that won't mean that the line will be as strong in east Alabama as it is now or as it will be west of I-65, but it's not going to be easy to kill by changing the thermodynamics because that's not what's driving it.

 

[Justin Hindman]

Birmingham airport has already reported a gust to 53

I’m three miles from them, the anemometer has to be 500 feet in the air, 24 where I’m at. They are always super high

 

[AL_ham_op]

I'm always amazed at how crappy the radar coverage is in such a populated area.

 

[RainyMorning]

I used to live in the area the rotation just east of Jackson is. Weird. It's going to pass close to my brother and his family, but it should miss them. They are sheltered right now.

 

[OHWX97]

A possible tornado just moved through or just south of Southaven, MS.

 

[Tennie]

There's a couple tornado warnings in and near Memphis, TN.

 

[bwalk]

I’m three miles from them, the anemometer has to be 500 feet in the air, 24 where I’m at. They are always super high

That's a good point re anemometer placement.