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Severe Weather 3/15 - 3/16

Very blustery here in Dallas, lots and lots of wind. Tomorrow is looking like a weird late-season cold snap with lows in the 30s and a high of 50. :oops: Obviously not the highlight given the situation unfolding to the east, but I'll have to give my family and friends on the east coast a call about the forecast tomorrow.
 
I would be expanding that 10% TOR risk and add a Level 4 risk from West TN/North MS. RRFS and HRRR are both in agreement with increased tornado/supercell threat out ahead of main squall line (if there's even a solid storm line that is)
 
I live in a mobile home...so I am making plans to stay somewhere else. When we were at a level 2, I was considering staying. But now since the whole state is a level 3, I think that it will be in my best interest to stay somewhere else.
Should've posted this earlier for folks, but you can use this site below to find your nearest tornado shelter. Curated by the lovely Dr. Craig Ceecee.
 
Should've posted this earlier for folks, but you can use this site below to find your nearest tornado shelter. Curated by the lovely Dr. Craig Ceecee.
We really need to give you the talkweather parent award. Always taking care of us. :)
 
I’m very bullish on tomorrow and tonight, but I still don’t think the HRRR is handling and depicting tomorrow correctly. CAMs can go both ways, see 3/15 last year with that insane presentation. That warm sector is very crowded and you’re actually seeing more rotation tracks being depicted for tonight than tomorrow. It is depicting the warm sector convecting though, but they’re staying spotty showers.
 
Any chance there's enough wildfire smoke being sucked in on the back side of the system from OK to add just a tiny bit of a cap in the AR/TN vicinity?
No way. I’ve really stopped buying into the whole “wildfire smoke” snuffing out events via cap reinforcement. 5/20/2019 was a mistimed trough and messy storm mode. Some posited wildfire smoke played a role, but then you had a study saying the Mexican wildfires of 2011 actually made the super outbreak worse. Way too many dynamic variables at play in both situations.
 
No way. I’ve really stopped buying into the whole “wildfire smoke” snuffing out events via cap reinforcement. 5/20/2019 was a mistimed trough and messy storm mode. Some posited wildfire smoke played a role, but then you had a study saying the Mexican wildfires of 2011 actually made the super outbreak worse.
I suspect that whatever effects (if any) that wildfire smoke may have on a given convective event may depend on a HUGE number of extenuating factors (e.g. a certain weather pattern could cause the smoke to act as an accelerant, while a certain other pattern could cause the smoke to act as an inhibitor). We’ll definitely need a lot of careful study to determine the effects of smoke on atmospheric behavior, that’s for sure.
 
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