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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 92
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
845 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

MUCH OF ALABAMA
THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE
SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI
COASTAL WATERS

EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING FROM 845 PM UNTIL
400 AM CST.

...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...

DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...
THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE
POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 95 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GADSDEN ALABAMA
TO 35 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF MOBILE ALABAMA. FOR A COMPLETE
DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
WATCH NUMBER 87...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 90. WATCH
NUMBER 87 90 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 845 PM CST. CONTINUE...WW
89...WW 91...

DISCUSSION...SUPERCELLS...INCLUDING A FEW WITH POSSIBLE STRONG
TORNADOES...EXPECTED TO FOCUS INVOF WSW/ENE WARM FRONT LIFTING N
THROUGH SRN/CNTRL AL. OTHER CELLS MAY PERSIST WITHIN WARM
SECTOR...AND N OF FRONT...WHERE AMPLE SHEAR/INSTABILITY WILL EXIST
FOR HAIL/HIGH WIND AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

Brent, you can forget about sleeping tonight! Good luck staying awake if you're going to church tomorrow!

PurdueWx80 wrote:Brent, you can forget about sleeping tonight! Good luck staying awake if you're going to church tomorrow!

Or, hate to say it, possibly another round of action tomorrow afternoon! Hopefully, not as potent as it could be tonight.

Good luck Brent. Stay safe!!!

Hunker down in your bunker Brent looks like a long night for you. Rare to see almost an entire state the size of Alabama under a tornado watch. Most of Mississippi is under a watch too. Spring time in the south.....MGC

That was pretty much a bust. There were a few warnings south of here, but otherwise it was rainy all night with embedded storms. Today looks scary. I'm in the hatched area for hail, damaging winds, and violent tornadoes.

Last night, things got started a little later (yeah, as mentioned several times before on this board, night time tornadoes are natorious in this area), things were not perfect for a nighttime tornado outbreak...thank God!

Today, though, I think things will be different with the dynamics (more stronger) and severe weather will develop earlier, having an Easter Feast on moisture and instability.

I haver only had the hatched are aver my area only a handful of times. I tell yeah, I go from "watch out, severe weather is possible" to "cancel your plans and glue your ear on the radio".

WOW... 3.56" of rain in the guage just now. It poured most of the night obviously.

Sun is trying to come out too.

Brent wrote:WOW... 3.56" of rain in the guage just now. It poured most of the night obviously.

Sun is trying to come out too.

Wow, that's amazing. Refresh my memory as to where you are again...is it Southeastern AL?

I'm really concerned about eastern AL and western GA, specifically the Atlanta metro area. If a nasty tornado outbreak were to occur today, it would be in this region as the rapidly strengthening surface low moves up just to the west of the area. Surface winds will respond to the pressure falls and could be almost easterly at the surface, with a 40-50 kt low-level just out of the S or SSE and a 60-90 kt midlevel jet out of the SW - this is NOT good for that area. The shear on the 12z RUC is mind-boggling. This area pretty much has everything going for it today, including tremendous upper level support with the 150+ kt jet providing massive divergence and diffluence above the region. Will be at work watching it all day so I'm looking forward to this. The latest mesoscale discussion further south spells things out nicely, specifically with the vertical velocities already causing rapid thunderstorm development from the Gulf up towards the Pensacola area this morning.

PurdueWx80 wrote:

Brent wrote:WOW... 3.56" of rain in the guage just now. It poured most of the night obviously.

Sun is trying to come out too.

Wow, that's amazing. Refresh my memory as to where you are again...is it Southeastern AL?

I'm really concerned about eastern AL and western GA, specifically the Atlanta metro area. If a nasty tornado outbreak were to occur today, it would be in this region as the rapidly strengthening surface low moves up just to the west of the area. Surface winds will respond to the pressure falls and could be almost easterly at the surface, with a 40-50 kt low-level just out of the S or SSE and a 60-90 kt midlevel jet out of the SW - this is NOT good for that area. The shear on the 12z RUC is mind-boggling. This area pretty much has everything going for it today, including tremendous upper level support with the 150+ kt jet providing massive divergence and diffluence above the region. Will be at work watching it all day so I'm looking forward to this. The latest mesoscale discussion further south spells things out nicely, specifically with the vertical velocities already causing rapid thunderstorm development from the Gulf up towards the Pensacola area this morning.

I'm in East Central Alabama just a mile from the Georgia line. I'm just north of Auburn and about 80 miles southwest of Atlanta.

Brent wrote:I'm in East Central Alabama just a mile from the Georgia line. I'm just north of Auburn and about 80 miles southwest of Atlanta.

Take care Brent!

Looks like Raleigh has the potential for some severe thunderstorms tonight!

Will be having my NOAA radio in alert-mode!

Eric

PurdueWx80 wrote:

Brent wrote:I'm in East Central Alabama just a mile from the Georgia line. I'm just north of Auburn and about 80 miles southwest of Atlanta.

I didn't want that response.

Brent wrote:

PurdueWx80 wrote:

Brent wrote:I'm in East Central Alabama just a mile from the Georgia line. I'm just north of Auburn and about 80 miles southwest of Atlanta.

I didn't want that response.

Don't worry Brent, as you know we busted...AGAIN! Upper level support definately wont help you unless you can get it to translate to the SFC. You had a couple of pretty good boomers including a tornado warning just after noon. That storm produced baseball size hail in Tallapoosa Co also.