Severe WX Severe Threat 17-18 March 2021

[Argus]

We made it rthrough the line. Passed two wrecks on 316 in the Winder area.

 

[andyhb]

That Chilton County tornado is probably EF3+ from what I've seen. Not sure what else is out there, but there were definitely a number of sig tors in AL yesterday. I think people would be viewing this event a lot differently had they hit less rural areas (the stuff in Tuscaloosa and Jefferson Counties in particular).

 

[Tennie]

Hopefully some studies are done on yesterday's event in order to see what the forecasts got right and wrong and why things (likely) ended up the way they did. Dixie Alley has shown itself to be rather tricky to forecast severe weather for, and hopefully the data gathered from VORTEX-SE and similar projects (both previous and future) would go at least some way towards improving our understanding and forecasting of severe weather in this region. I know that already there have been some studies published using VORTEX-SE data already, and am looking forward to seeing how the results from those and future studies will be implemented in future forecasts.

 

[Bama Ravens]

The high was perhaps misplaced in retrospect but at least the east side performed quite well

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Where on SPC’s site does one find this product?

 

[Equus]

Where on SPC’s site does one find this product?

It's part of the archives, put the requested date in the search for past outlooks and it's one of the products available for a given date

 

[Bama Ravens]

It's part of the archives, put the requested date in the search for past outlooks and it's one of the products available for a given date

Thanks!

 

[Bama Ravens]

Moderate risk has been removed:

 

[TH2002]

First completed storm survey confirms an EF0 tornado near Doloroso, MS

 

[Tyler Penland]

Rotation near Hartwell, GA tightening up.

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[TH2002]

Tornado Warning in Florida

 

[Gail]

Jackson NWS: “Our storm survey team's preliminary reports show that an EF-1 Tornado occurred yesterday in Lincoln County, east of Brookhaven, with estimated winds of 95 mph.”

 

[TH2002]

Possible small TDS with the warned cell in Florida

 

[Equus]

Moundville early prelim high end EF1, Chilton prelim high end EF2. Must have been a manufactured home or mobile home that was obliterated.

 

[warneagle]

One of the Chilton Co. tornadoes is preliminary high-end EF2, first confirmed sigtor.

 

[Equus]

Alright so clearly they're still on that damage path, still every early on. It's probably a bit premature to announce preliminary ratings as with Fultondale since the media's going to run with that but hey, nice to have an update regardless

 

[Gail]

That's true to an extent, but zero tornado reports in the Mississippi portion of the high risk is a forecast bust by any standards. Not saying the event as a whole was a bust since we'll likely have 30+ tornadoes and several significant ones, but that specific part of the forecast area objectively didn't verify.

As someone in the high risk portion of MS, I’m grateful for it! It rained here most of the day, it was cool but humid, we were in the upper 60s at the warmest part of the day when they had projected us to be in the low 80s. My science mind is curious why, but my mama heart is thankful I didn’t have to take cover with my babies last night! We had a line of strong winds comes through, but otherwise, it was just normal thunderstorms.

 

[TH2002]

Tornado Warning in Georgia

 

[Equus]

Yesterday here was an absolute washout, 4"+ storm total with several hours straight of torrential rain that flooded the basement and made several local roads impassible via flash flooding. Never got above 66° and saw the sun for about ten minutes. If the warm sector had been a little more capped and the heavy sloppy rain not happened, it'd have been historic. No complaints here

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Yesterday here was an absolute washout, 4"+ storm total with several hours straight of torrential rain that flooded the basement and made several local roads impassible via flash flooding. Never got above 66° and saw the sun for about ten minutes. If the warm sector had been a little more capped and the heavy sloppy rain not happened, it'd have been historic. No complaints here

What happened to that EML that was supposed to be advected in?

 

[Kory]

What happened to that EML that was supposed to be advected in?

We had a ton of ascent over the warm sector with a very deep trough practically moving due east instead of the usual glancing by as it’s lifting NE.