The Monday morning map discussion video is on the server:
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
RED LETTER DAY: What a severe weather outbreak yesterday and last night over Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana. SPC web site has a total of 63 tornadoes, 321 wind reports, 314 hail reports, for a total of 698 severe weather reports. Various news reports suggest the death toll is 18; 16 in Tennessee and two in Missouri. Many injuries in parts of northeast Arkansas. I am afraid those numbers could go higher with the first light of day and additional information.
AROUND HERE: I will be the first to admit I was really surprised to see storms intensify during the pre-dawn hours around here this morning. I expected a few showers early this morning, not these kind of storms (WRONG
. The stronger storms produced some hail in scattered spots.
SPC issued a tornado watch early this morning, but there have been no reports of tornadoes in our state, and I don't expect any this morning in our state. The NWS is in the process of cancelling the tornado watch as I write this. I don't think a tornado watch was needed here, but after the kind of night SPC had last night, I don't blame them for having a quick trigger finger. At my place in northern Shelby County, my rain total from a passing pre-dawn storm was 0.31".
HERE COMES THE SUN: Drier and cooler air rolls into the state today as the morning storms end. All of the rain should be gone by mid-morning, and the afternoon should feature lots of sunshine with highs in the mid 70s, about ten degrees cooler than yesterday. We do note Birmingham set a new record high yesterday with a balmy 85 degrees.
Pleasant weather is our story through mid-week with sunny mild days and clear cool nights.
NEXT STORM: Another major storm will roll out of the Rockies later in the week, setting up a severe weather threat for the nation's mid-section on Wednesday and Thursday. This system, like the one over the weekend, heads to the Great Lakes, and we catch the trailing front. A band of showers and storms will move through here Friday night, and once again a major severe weather problem isn't very likely with weakening wind fields, and the main dynamic support well to the north.
WEEKEND PEEK: Any showers should end early Saturday, and the weekend ahead looks nice with ample sunshine and temperatures near normal for early April.
Will be headed to Bluff Park Elementary this morning... will be back in the office for the afternoon map discussion video, which will be posted by 3:30. Thanks to J.B. Elliott for the pre-dawn blog updates!
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
RED LETTER DAY: What a severe weather outbreak yesterday and last night over Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana. SPC web site has a total of 63 tornadoes, 321 wind reports, 314 hail reports, for a total of 698 severe weather reports. Various news reports suggest the death toll is 18; 16 in Tennessee and two in Missouri. Many injuries in parts of northeast Arkansas. I am afraid those numbers could go higher with the first light of day and additional information.
AROUND HERE: I will be the first to admit I was really surprised to see storms intensify during the pre-dawn hours around here this morning. I expected a few showers early this morning, not these kind of storms (WRONG
. The stronger storms produced some hail in scattered spots. SPC issued a tornado watch early this morning, but there have been no reports of tornadoes in our state, and I don't expect any this morning in our state. The NWS is in the process of cancelling the tornado watch as I write this. I don't think a tornado watch was needed here, but after the kind of night SPC had last night, I don't blame them for having a quick trigger finger. At my place in northern Shelby County, my rain total from a passing pre-dawn storm was 0.31".
HERE COMES THE SUN: Drier and cooler air rolls into the state today as the morning storms end. All of the rain should be gone by mid-morning, and the afternoon should feature lots of sunshine with highs in the mid 70s, about ten degrees cooler than yesterday. We do note Birmingham set a new record high yesterday with a balmy 85 degrees.
Pleasant weather is our story through mid-week with sunny mild days and clear cool nights.
NEXT STORM: Another major storm will roll out of the Rockies later in the week, setting up a severe weather threat for the nation's mid-section on Wednesday and Thursday. This system, like the one over the weekend, heads to the Great Lakes, and we catch the trailing front. A band of showers and storms will move through here Friday night, and once again a major severe weather problem isn't very likely with weakening wind fields, and the main dynamic support well to the north.
WEEKEND PEEK: Any showers should end early Saturday, and the weekend ahead looks nice with ample sunshine and temperatures near normal for early April.
Will be headed to Bluff Park Elementary this morning... will be back in the office for the afternoon map discussion video, which will be posted by 3:30. Thanks to J.B. Elliott for the pre-dawn blog updates!
on April 3, 2006, 5:14 am
Anyway, if you want to watch the severe wx and lightning you can click on just about any traffic cam and see, but the best one is this one around 459 pointing south. Very cool! Not skycam quality, but still worth a look. Take care!
http://www.dot.state.al.us/Bureau/Design/ITS/PublicITS/CameraList
.aspx?Channel_id=61
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