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Alabama Weather Update – 10:00 a.m.

| March 1, 2007 @ 10:03 am | 45 Replies

Here is an update on the Alabama weather situation as of 10:00 a.m.

…Major outbreak of severe weather including strong tornadoes likely today…

Schools are dismissing early all across Alabama. Check abc3340.com or watch our live televisioin broadcast for the latest. Parents need to have a pre-determine plan for their kids for this afternoon.

Make sure you have reviewed and rehearsed your personal tornado safety plan before the storms arrive. Scan down to the next post for more information.

The airmass has a different feel now than it does when I got off a plane last night. Last night, dewpoints were in the 30s. Now they are in the upper 50s, and will be in the 60s soon. They are already in the 60s over South Alabama and in the upper 60s in Mississippi. Dewpoint is 67F at Meridian!

Strong south winds are blowing across the area. A lake wind advisory is in effect. These strong surface winds and winds just off the surface are bringing in copious amounts of moisture.

Radars are generally clear across North and Central Alabama at this hour. A few showers are scattered across the middle of the state from Sumter to Chambers Counties. Strong thunderstorms are over South Alabama and Northwest Florida, where a tornado warning was in effect for Bladwin County. It has now been shifted eastward into northern Escambia County, FL.

Back to the west, showers and storms are in progress over Mississippi. Some of them are entering Northwest Alabama. They are strong, but not severe at this time. They will continue to intensify also, with a new severe thunderstorm warning for Lee and Pontotoc Counties in NE Mississippi, or the area around Tupelo.

Of more concern are the developing storms over Central and Southwest Mississippi. A tornado warning is in effect for the parishes and counties around Natchez, MS.

Thunderstorms will develop over Mississippi as we go through the morning hours. They will intensify under a very strong wnid shear pattern and quickly become severe and produce tornadoes. This activity will shift eastward into Alabama and additional storms will develop over our area also. These discrete individual storms will have the greatest chance of producing tornadoes, but they will also produce damaging winds, large hail, deadly lightning and blinding rains.

Tornado watches cover all 67 counties in Alabama now. The western half of the state until 6 p.m., the eastern half until 8 p.m. Both are PDS watches…meaning they are for a particularly dangerous situation.

Tornado watches exend as far north as Central Illinois and Indiana.

Sadly, 1 person was killed in Caufield MO in a tornado that struck overnight. Our goal is no fatalities in Alabama today. Be ready, not lucky.

This storm system has a wintry side also, with widespead winter weather advisories and warnings, even blizzard warnings across a wide area from the Dakotas and Nebraska over to New England.

We will have continuous updates throughout the day and into tonight right here.

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Bill Murray is the President of The Weather Factory. He is the site's official weather historian and a weekend forecaster. He also anchors the site's severe weather coverage. Bill Murray is the proud holder of National Weather Association Digital Seal #0001 @wxhistorian

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