Sunday Morning Weather Forecast Package

Today is one of those dates that fans of numbers have to like. 05/06/07. I guess you can t ake it out even further and wake up early this morning so that your clock can read 02:03:04 05/06/07. I think I will sleep through it…

ANOTHER BAD NIGHT IN KANSAS: I could hardly tear myself away all day and into the evening from the riveting live coverage on KWCH television out of Wichita. They had been on the air in continuous coverage for over 22 hours by suppertime. Great Bend had another close call. Early reports from Stafford County indicated that a large, half mile wide tornado just missed the town of Macksville just before 8 p.m. Daylight will reveal the true extent of the damage.

WAITING ON ASSESSMENT: National Weather Service meteorologists will be out again today and we will look to hear the final assessment of the tornado at Greensburg from Friday night. It is likely to be the first EF5 and the first F5 since the May 3, 1999 Oklahoma City tornado.

FOR YOUR SUNDAY: A backdoor cold front, or easterly wedge moved well into Alabama overnight. Behind this front, northeasterly winds will average some 6-14 mph today. We should enjoy a good deal of sunshine today with partly cloudy skies. Temperatures will still make it into the middle 80s again. Drier air will start moving into the state tonight and temperatures will have a chance to retreat a bit as we head into the new work week. Look for lows tonight in the middle 50s. Quite nice.

THE WEEK AHEAD: Tomorrow will feel quite different. Look for temperatures in the 70s with a good deal of sunshine. In fact, skies will be mostly sunny. And dew points will be much lower, in the 40s. This may allow overnight lows Monday night to inch back into the upper 40s. Wouldn’t that be great? Dry conditions will prevail for much of the week. Meanwhile, a low pressure system will form off the South Atlantic Coast east of the Carolinas later today. This low will spin up quickly into a powerful little storm system. It will create strong onshore northeasterly winds along the coast of the Carolinas and Florida. It will be hemmed in by high pressure to the north and east and eventually weaken as the week goes on.

ON THIS DATE IN 1975: A very large tornado killed three and caused $250 million in damage in Omaha Nebraska, making it the most costly U.S. tornado to that time. A total of 133 people were injured. The path of the storm was ten miles long and up to 1/4 of a mile wide. The tornado moved through the western section of town before lifting over the northern part of the city, but not before it had destroyed 287 houses and damaged 1,400 others. Excellent warnings kept the death toll amazingly low.

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