The Wednesday morning map discussion video is on the server:
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
Wow.... check out Bill Murray's post below this one. Some amazing historical text from the Superoutbreak of April 3-4, 1974. I was a senior in high school that night and was sent north (from my home in Tuscaloosa) to work emergency communications. My first assignment was at the old People's Hospital in downtown Jasper. It was a night I will never forget. The WeatherBrains podcast is all about that this week; you can listen via iTunes, or here: http://www.weatherbrains.com/
NICE DAY: Another beautiful day for Alabama today with ample sunshine and highs in the low to mid 70s. Tomorrow will be dry and mild, but we will be watching developments to the west...
ANOTHER RED LETTER DAY? SPC has defined a moderate risk of severe storms tomorrow from roughly Paris, Texas to Little Rock, AR to Kansas City, MO to Omaha, NE. In fact, SPC mentions they might upgrade part of this region to a high risk in later outlooks. This was the same area hit hard this past weekend. Conditions seem to be coming together for another major severe weather outbreak.
PROBLEMS HERE FRIDAY NIGHT? Most of Alabama is under a slight risk of severe weather in the Day 3 outlook, and conditions do now seem to favor strong to severe storms here Friday night. The latest model data suggests much of the day Friday will be dry, with the greatest chance of storms between 6:00 p.m. Friday through 6:00 a.m. Saturday. Here are some severe weather parameters for the 6:00 to midnight time frame:
Surface based CAPE: 1555
Lifted index: -4.6
0 to 3 km helicity: 257
SWEAT index: 455
Total totals: 53
850 mb wind speed: 50 knots
Model output suggests the greatest risk here could be from damaging winds and large hail, but a few tornadoes cannot be ruled out. After all, this is April in Alabama, you know.
Looks like we will be burning the midnight oil in the weather office Friday night.
THE WEEKEND: Showers and storms should end early in the day Saturday, with clearing Saturday afternoon. The weather will be cooler; after reaching 80 on Friday, temperatures will probably hold in the 60s all day Saturday. Sunday should be mostly sunny with a cool morning.
NEXT WEEK: The GFS shows yet another negative tilt through over the plains on Tuesday, but this time it moves it more northward, missing us completely. In fact, most of next week here looks dry at this point.
I will be doing a weather program today at Avondale Elementary School here in Birmingham; I will have the next map discussion video posted by 3:30 this afternoon!
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
Wow.... check out Bill Murray's post below this one. Some amazing historical text from the Superoutbreak of April 3-4, 1974. I was a senior in high school that night and was sent north (from my home in Tuscaloosa) to work emergency communications. My first assignment was at the old People's Hospital in downtown Jasper. It was a night I will never forget. The WeatherBrains podcast is all about that this week; you can listen via iTunes, or here: http://www.weatherbrains.com/
NICE DAY: Another beautiful day for Alabama today with ample sunshine and highs in the low to mid 70s. Tomorrow will be dry and mild, but we will be watching developments to the west...
ANOTHER RED LETTER DAY? SPC has defined a moderate risk of severe storms tomorrow from roughly Paris, Texas to Little Rock, AR to Kansas City, MO to Omaha, NE. In fact, SPC mentions they might upgrade part of this region to a high risk in later outlooks. This was the same area hit hard this past weekend. Conditions seem to be coming together for another major severe weather outbreak.
PROBLEMS HERE FRIDAY NIGHT? Most of Alabama is under a slight risk of severe weather in the Day 3 outlook, and conditions do now seem to favor strong to severe storms here Friday night. The latest model data suggests much of the day Friday will be dry, with the greatest chance of storms between 6:00 p.m. Friday through 6:00 a.m. Saturday. Here are some severe weather parameters for the 6:00 to midnight time frame:
Surface based CAPE: 1555
Lifted index: -4.6
0 to 3 km helicity: 257
SWEAT index: 455
Total totals: 53
850 mb wind speed: 50 knots
Model output suggests the greatest risk here could be from damaging winds and large hail, but a few tornadoes cannot be ruled out. After all, this is April in Alabama, you know.
Looks like we will be burning the midnight oil in the weather office Friday night.
THE WEEKEND: Showers and storms should end early in the day Saturday, with clearing Saturday afternoon. The weather will be cooler; after reaching 80 on Friday, temperatures will probably hold in the 60s all day Saturday. Sunday should be mostly sunny with a cool morning.
NEXT WEEK: The GFS shows yet another negative tilt through over the plains on Tuesday, but this time it moves it more northward, missing us completely. In fact, most of next week here looks dry at this point.
I will be doing a weather program today at Avondale Elementary School here in Birmingham; I will have the next map discussion video posted by 3:30 this afternoon!
on April 5, 2006, 6:08 am
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on April 5, 2006, 6:40 am
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