New Tornado Watch

So far, so good, with still no warnings across Mississippi. But we’re not out of the woods yet.

Our lines of storms is about 40 miles southwest of Marion County now.

The strongest storm is approaching Tupelo. There appears to be some curvature in the echoes on the radar with that storm, indicating some type of upper level disturbance. Another decent storm was just behind near Grenada. This activity will reach Northwest Alabama’s Franklin and Marion Counties around 5 p.m. It could become severe.

There has been slight intensification overall in the past hour in Mississippi and the line is moving into moderately unstable air in eastern Mississippi and eventually western Alabama. But the good mews is that the best upper dynamics are moving northward into western Tennessee.

The bad news is that the airmass becomes much more unstable the further southwest you go into southwestern Alabama and southern Mississippi. Storms are expected to intensify to our southwest and move into Central Alabama later this evening.

There has not been a single severe weather report in Mississippi today, except a report of a tree that fell on some cars at Oxford. It could very well have been with gradient winds outside the storms that have been averaging 12-25 mph and gusting higher at times. We recently saw a 33 mph gust at Haleyville and a 31 mph gust at Birmingham.

The storms will reach Marion and Franklin Counties around 5 p.m., Jasper/Tuscaloosa between 6 and 6:30; and Birmingham around 7 p.m.

It still could get rough across West Central and Central Alabama this evening with the threat of damaging winds and even an isolated tornado threat.

Here is the initial notification of the new watch:

WWUS30 KWNS 112103
SAW0
SPC AWW 112103
WW 130 TORNADO AL MS 112105Z – 120400Z
AXIS..70 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF LINE..
30SSW PIB/PINE BELT MS/ – 50NNW BHM/BIRMINGHAM AL/
..AVIATION COORDS.. 60NM E/W /40ESE MCB – 34SE MSL/
HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT..2 INCHES. WIND GUSTS..60 KNOTS.
MAX TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24035.

LAT…LON 31059070 34228830 34228586 31058833

THIS IS AN APPROXIMATION TO THE WATCH AREA. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE WOUS64 KWNS
FOR WOU0.

Category: Alabama's Weather, Severe Weather