April 07, 2006

Welcome to My World

Special Weather Statement from www.weather.com

COLBERT-CULLMAN-DE KALB-FRANKLIN AL- FRANKLIN TN-JACKSON (work)-LAUDERDALE- LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-LINCOLN-MADISON (home)- MARSHALL-MOORE-MORGAN- 345 AM CDT FRI APR 7 2006

...SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT...
A POTENT STORM SYSTEM MOVING OUT OF THE GREAT PLAINS...COMBINED WITH WARM UNSTABLE AIR AND VERY STRONG WINDS AND WIND SHEAR ALOFT...WILL SET THE STAGE FOR A POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER EVENT STARTING THIS AFTERNOON...AND CONTINUING THROUGH TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS...WITH EXPLOSIVE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED TO CONTINUE WELL INTO THE EVENING. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 3 AND 10 PM...AS SOME OF THESE STORMS BECOME SUPERCELLS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE STRONG TORNADOES.

THESE SUPERCELL STORMS WILL EVENTUALLY CONSOLIDATE INTO A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BY LATE TONIGHT. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL MAINTAIN THE THREAT OF DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. IN ADDITION...CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SAME AREAS WILL BRING A THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING FROM LATE THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.

Yee haw.

5 comments:

Shannon Skafte said...

Did you bring you're camera to work???

richmanwisco said...

welcome to tornado alley :)

live through a few of them, and you'll be thinking nothing of them in no time.

Anonymous said...

Glad it's you and not me. I freak out enough when it is just a thunderstorm, not even a hit of a mention of a tornado. Hope you made it through ok! :)

Ruth said...

Don't die!

Anonymous said...

Charlotte thinks God is judging the US through all this weird weather and stuff... What do you think?

And I'm with Ruth... Dont' die!