• Severe Threat Continues MS/AL/TN

    From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 15 18:33:44 2025
    ACUS11 KWNS 152318
    SWOMCD
    SPC MCD 152318=20
    ALZ000-FLZ000-MSZ000-LAZ000-160215-

    Mesoscale Discussion 0213
    NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
    0618 PM CDT Sat Mar 15 2025

    Areas affected...southern Mississippi into central and southern Alabama

    Concerning...Tornado Watch 46...

    Valid 152318Z - 160215Z

    The severe weather threat for Tornado Watch 46 continues.

    SUMMARY...The environment remains quite favorable for strong
    tornadoes, but will depend on storm mode going into the evening and
    early morning hours.

    DISCUSSION...Supercells moving out of eastern MS have transitioned
    into more of a small MCS this evening, from west-central AL into
    parts of eastern MS. Farther south, more discrete cell mode was
    noted across far southern MS to the LA border.

    While storm mode is currently a bit disorganized, shear, moisture
    and instability all remain favorable for conditionally strong
    tornadoes at any point this evening and through early morning. In
    addition, dewpoints and thus instability will also increase across
    the remainder of eastern AL and toward GA late tonight as the
    low-level jet persists. It is possible that reorganization may take
    place later this evening as we transition out of the daytime/diurnal
    regime. Any robust, discrete cells will have a high conditional risk
    of being tornadic supercells. Any linear structures may still
    produce tornadoes and swaths of damaging wind as well as effective
    SRH remains at or above 500 m2/s2.

    ..Jewell.. 03/15/2025

    ATTN...WFO...BMX...MOB...JAN...LIX...

    LAT...LON 30318979 30628951 31458910 31998846 32308814 32658781
    32878771 33188745 33408693 33428620 33228596 32858582
    32268597 31668640 31168676 30288732 30068936 30318979

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    ACUS11 KWNS 152321
    SWOMCD
    SPC MCD 152321=20
    TNZ000-GAZ000-ALZ000-MSZ000-160115-

    Mesoscale Discussion 0214
    NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
    0621 PM CDT Sat Mar 15 2025

    Areas affected...Northern Alabama into eastern Tennessee

    Concerning...Tornado Watch 47...48...

    Valid 152321Z - 160115Z

    The severe weather threat for Tornado Watch 47, 48 continues.

    SUMMARY...The threat for tornadoes and severe gusts continues across
    northern Alabama into eastern Tennessee for the next few hours.

    DISCUSSION...Over the past 1-2 hours, convection across
    north-central AL has struggled to maintain intensity as it migrates
    into a deeply saturated, rain cooled environment. Recent surface
    observations depict a rather pronounced surface warm front extending
    across northern AL that delineates the northern extent of
    appreciable surface-based buoyancy. Despite the thermodynamic
    challenges, the low to mid-level theta-e axis remains in place
    across north-central AL. Strong isentropic ascent within this regime
    continues to support very strongly veered hodographs within the
    lowest few kilometers, exemplified by KBMX and KHTX VWP observations
    featuring 0-1 km SRH on the order of 400-500 m2/s2. Additionally,
    GOES IR imagery and lightning data have shown occasional updraft
    pulses within this warm advection regime and embedded supercell
    structures within a broken line of storms across eastern Middle TN
    which hint that buoyancy remains adequate for at least transient
    deep convection. Recent WoFS guidance appears to support this idea
    with some signal for low-level helicity tracks and severe gust
    potential focused across northeast AL into eastern/southeastern TN
    between 23-02 UTC.

    ..Moore.. 03/15/2025

    ATTN...WFO...MRX...FFC...OHX...BMX...HUN...MEG...

    LAT...LON 36448458 36358426 36238405 36008403 35768410 35398424
    34828464 34328519 33988567 33828612 33788666 33788710
    33898744 34098791 34288816 34648816 34758804 34888784
    34908761 34888726 34878657 34928619 35038590 35248565
    35548543 35928525 36378488 36448458

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