Moderate risk for tomorrow. Moderate risk driven by wind probabilities, although tornado threat is there.
mid-January devastating tornadoes in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The hardest hit places, however, were Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, and very hard- and repetitively hit Georgia. I'm calling this 123 in 2023, because, as I write this, the National Weather Service has confirmed 123 tornadoes in the U.S. so far this year. For perspective, only one other January since 2000 had over 100 tornado reports. You can see the unusually high number of twisters in this graphic from our great partners at AccuWeather.
Just came out of our most interior bathroom with wife kids and dog after being woken up by a tornado alert about 115 eastern. A storm with rotation was a mile or less north of us. We live just outside Chattanooga. Appears to be moving northeast-ish and out of our immediate area. That’ll get your blood pumping a bit.
They reduced tornado probs a bit with this outlook. Mainly the concern that best potential will be later with the QLCS/squall line and less so with isolated supercells. Obviously, it just takes one, but it seems that was the reason for the downgrade. They still kept the significant/hatching, though.
Turn that frown upside down! At least you will miss the continued disappointments of being a Razorback fan