Severe Weather Season 2011/Severe Wx thread

[TWCmatthew]

Wow, a PDS with the tornado watch in the Tulsa, OK area. 

[Lightning]

I am pretty scared about the weather here, today.    While I want storms, there's a fine line between that and there being long-tracked, violent tornadoes spawned by supercell thunderstorms, cells out there all alone, as oppossed to a line. Tornadoes that threaten life and property.

[Lightning]

I am terrified.  A wedge tornado is on the ground moving toward Tuscaloosa and I have friends at the University of Alabama, who I am very worried about.

[Mr. Rainman]

Two large and dangerous tornadoes currently on the ground in Mississippi and Alabama...tornado emergency for Union, Knoxville, Ralph, and Moundville, AL.

[toxictwister00]

This was posted at another forum of the tornado in Jackson, MS earlier today.

Destructive Jackson, MS Tornado!

[WeatherWitness]

We had some severe weather here last night...one line of storms brought heavy rain, strong winds, and some pea-sized hail for about half an hour. Areas north of here supposedly got half-dollar size hail. And when the sirens starting wailing, I was a little concerned. Luckily there were no tornadoes though.

[Pop Light Brown]

The Jackson area took a big hit yesterday. Clinton, western and northern Jackson, parts of Ridgeland and areas around the Ross Barnett Reservoir by the tornado posted on this page.

The same supercell also tracked through Philadelphia, Miss. and through the Tuscaloosa area (the large wedge tornado mentioned earlier).

Southeast Mississippi and SW Alabama were hit hard too.

The link below has good coverage of the Jackson-area tornado and other storms in Mississippi.
www.clarionledger.com

[Pop Light Brown]

BTW, did yall hear about Jim Cantore's home damaged by last night's storms?

[Mr. Rainman]

The first High Risk of the year is going to be in the effect for Eastern North Carolina.

[toxictwister00]

BTW, did yall hear about Jim Cantore's home damaged by last night's storms?

No, it must have been the same storm that had the tornado warning on it last night that went right past TWC studios.

[Donovan]

I am under a PDS Tornado Watch, its really windy and they are shifting around a lot. People around here think tornadoes don't kill, so they are less likely to take cover or pay attention for that matter. I'm concerned there will be injuries and fatalities because of this. Watch thewxnetwork stream on livestream.com I'm streaming live video outside of my house.

[toxictwister00]

I am under a PDS Tornado Watch, its really windy and they are shifting around a lot. People around here think tornadoes don't kill, so they are less likely to take cover or pay attention for that matter. I'm concerned there will be injuries and fatalities because of this. Watch thewxnetwork stream on livestream.com I'm streaming live video outside of my house.

I don't quite understand the SPC's reasoning for a High Risk, if anything they should have issued a PDS Tornado Watch for AL and MS yesterday. There were quite a few long lived large tornadoes. I think they may be doing this as precautionary because of what happened yesterday.

[Donovan]

I am under a PDS Tornado Watch, its really windy and they are shifting around a lot. People around here think tornadoes don't kill, so they are less likely to take cover or pay attention for that matter. I'm concerned there will be injuries and fatalities because of this. Watch thewxnetwork stream on livestream.com I'm streaming live video outside of my house.

I don't quite understand the SPC's reasoning for a High Risk, if anything they should have issued a PDS Tornado Watch for AL and MS yesterday. There were quite a few long lived large tornadoes. I think they may be doing this as precautionary because of what happened yesterday.

It also may be to catch the attention of people. They wouldn't put one out without good reasoning.

[Mr. Rainman]

I believe there was still some uncertainty yesterday as to how severe the tornadoes would be in the areas yesterday, which is why they held the tornado probability at 15%. Today, the atmospheric conditions are prime for dangerous tornades, possibly worse than yesterday, and their certainty is much higher. Hence, the High Risk and the PDS tornado watch.

[Donovan]

I believe there was still some uncertainty yesterday as to how severe the tornadoes would be in the areas yesterday, which is why they held the tornado probability at 15%. Today, the atmospheric conditions are prime for dangerous tornades, possibly worse than yesterday, and their certainty is much higher. Hence, the High Risk and the PDS tornado watch.

High Risk of tornadoes EF2 and greater.