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OK, stop spamming the thread with this. All that said, I'm team mountains can make a difference since Red Mountain in Bham always seems to push stuff off to the North or South of town, or so history would seem for the past 40-50 years. We are overdue, though.
Nope. These are just gonna be super cells until band moves through later. For Bham that's 5-9pm window probably around 7
I said "push stuff". Didn't say "builds an impenetrable wall so that we can ignore legitimate weather threats"...
There is ongoing research to decipher if, and to what extent, terrain influences tornadoes. The thought that they prevent or move them is not supported in the research. We get tornadoes in the black hills here. There is some evidence that hills/mountains can actually enhance surface drag and actually engagee the storm-scale environment, making it more conducive to tornadoes
Same. The amount of information available is definitely a good thing. It’s great that we continue to get better at forecasting severe weather. They have been talking this storm up since late last week. That’s good. The flip side, if you can call it that, is that too much conversation makes people go crazy. People lose sight of the fact that severe weather in the spring in Alabama is normal. This happens from time to time. It sucks, but it’s part of living here.
Made it back from the hospital. Hadn't rained all day then the fucking bottom fell out right when I got on the hwy
Here's the 18Z sounding (1pm CDT). Exceptional amount of surface-based instability compared to 6 hours prior. It's probably slightly overdone cause there is a very small layer at the surface that has an unrealistic moisture profile. Still, large instability and big-time shear. Not anything outlandish like there was on 4/27/11, but it's more than adequate.
Inlaws are there. Looked for a while like that thing around 1:45 was going to kill you all with hail or tstorms, but it broke up.