Severe WX Severe Weather Threat 3/14-3/16

[US_Highway15]

It's silly. If a tornado is on the ground doing damage, it's an emergency for people in the path. Some things don't require overthinking.

I believe it depends from office to office. We had a tornado come through a small town here in IWX (population 6500) that was a high end EF3 back in 2007, and it had a Tornado Emergency linked to it.

 

[eosaurora13]

69/58 in Harvest, AL currently, right on the edge of a significant amount of rain. *fingers crossed*

 

[hurricaneguy]

At least these storms are messy and less organized as they enter Alabama. Hopefully will limit the higher end tornado potential for the next couple of hours

 

[TornadoFan]

There is a debris signature south of Newton

 

[Clancy]

There is a debris signature south of Newton

Yep, compact but pretty gnarly looking tornado OTG.

 

[TheSuckZone]

There is a debris signature south of Newton

They need to get a warning out ahead of that immediately

 

[Muwx]

It's silly. If a tornado is on the ground doing damage, it's an emergency for people in the path. Some things don't require overthinking.

Not really. What you’re describing is basically what a PDS warning is for. Tornado emergency’s are typically reserved for when strong go violent tornadoes are going through heavily populated areas. If you issue them for every tornado you might as well just get rid of the tornado warning itself. Tornado emergencies get people’s attention because they aren’t used often. Wouldn’t be the case if we used them constantly.

 

[ColdFront]

At least these storms are messy and less organized as they enter Alabama. Hopefully will limit the higher end tornado potential for the next couple of hours

I may eat my words but the high end level of violence we saw in Mississippi today may not occur as readily in Alabama due to Alabama’s current thermodynamic situation.

I’m also not sold on any OWS initiation in AL.

 

[MikeP]

That Sumter storm is about to be a Greene Co. issue. Looks like it's trying to get it's act together again....

 

[Thanksgivingbrown]

Street flooding occurring in downtown Florence, Al

 

[TornadoFan]

Big wall cloud on Reed's stream.

 

[Darklordsuperstorm]

The storm moving into Green County AL has all the looks of a potential monster.

 

[UncleJuJu98]

York Alabama tornado warning is dangerous looking

 

[Evan]

Unsure if already mentioned but really bizarre to have a 3.0 magnitude earthquake take place in Mississippi near some of the tornadic supercells.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000pz2i/executive

 

[Kragg]

30 minutes ago I ran a couple of errands on hwy280 near Grandview/Inverness. There were still people out, but traffic was noticeably lighter than on a normal Saturday. It looks like a lot of people are paying attention to the weather and staying home.

 

[Maxis_s]

I don't like that one bit. Much more discrete than the other cells and is looking very powerful.

 

[TornadoFan]

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

I may eat my words but the high end level of violence we saw in Mississippi today may not occur as readily in Alabama due to Alabama’s current thermodynamic situation.

I’m also not sold on any OWS initiation in AL.

Based on the way CAPE has swelled in Mississippi over the last few hours I wouldn't count any chickens just yet. Seems like last night's HRRR runs are verifying better than the current ones. Still a lot of daylight left too. But if Instability holds steady at <1000 for the upper half of Alabama that'd be a huge win

 

[Evan]

For those who mentioned it earlier, no, North Alabama is not in the clear yet. Yes, instability may not be ideal but other parameters are very high and tornadoes are very very possible with storms in Northern Alabama.

 

[Darklordsuperstorm]

Holy smokes