These report numbers will go up: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/180319_rpts.html Huntsville will have 3 survey teams out tomorrow: Spoiler 000 NOUS44 KHUN 200244 PNSHUN ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-201200- Public Information Statement National Weather Service Huntsville AL 944 PM CDT Mon Mar 19 2018 ...Storm Surveys Planned Tomorrow... The National Weather Service in Huntsville will dispatch 3 teams to survey damage that occurred with the storms that moved through northern Alabama today. Team 1: Tennessee-Alabama state line, from near Lexington to Hazel Green Team 2: Cullman, Marshall and DeKalb Counties, from near Arab to Aroney Team 3: Franklin, Lawrence, Morgan, and Cullman Counties, from Russellville to Vinemont Due to the widespread nature of the damage across northern Alabama and portions of southern Tenessee, surveying will take more than one day. Additional information will be sent as surveys are conducted. A major contribution to the success of our severe weather warning program is the receipt of storm reports from all our customers and partners across northern Alabama and southern middle Tennessee. If you witnessed or are aware of any storm damage, please contact the National Weather Service in Huntsville or your local emergency management agency. Additional public information statements will be released later as details are received from the field. These will also be made available on our home page at weather.gov/huntsville. NWS Birmingham will have 2 teams out surveying tomorrow
Haven’t seen any photos or videos of homes collapsed or swept off their foundations. Guessing high end EF-3
It's funny. Just yesterday people were telling me mountains couldn't stop a tornado. They got mountain cucked. Hard.
Pretty incredible that a violent tornado could hit at night and have no reported fatalities the next day.
Yesterday has to be very satisfying yet also infuriating for mets. They did their job to perfection, getting notice out early and nailed the risk area, yet people still piss and moan about coverage and missing shows, etc. The no fatalities aspect has to bring it back to the satisfying side
It really shows just how humbling and difficult it can be to nail these events. BIg severe weather events have a lot of failure modes, and just one can wreck the entire forecast. It'll be interesting to go back and look into why the storms became messy HP (high precipitation) garbage rather than the expected discrete. Could just be as simple as they all formed right on top of each other..
It hit some mobile homes so i'm guessing those people wisely were in a storm cellar or basement elsewhere
In addition to this watch, there's another tornado watch along the SE Atlantic coast. More to watch today unless you're all weathered out. Quiet night at work today, so I'll likely be watching for as long as this event goes on
Tornado sirens went off next to the office I work at (just outside downtown Orlando). Had pea-sized hail, apparently a suburb to the west had quarter-sized. Waiting on the 4:30 wave
Neighbors just texted and said we got coin size hail in our subdivision but no damage. School held all kids inside an extra hour to dismiss after the wave passed. let's see if anything else happens...
My buddy from work, who lives near Cullman, suffered massive damage last night. Both he and his wife's car were severely damaged by the hail and their roof was destroyed. He and his daughter were watching disney on the bed when a hail stone busted through the window. They were terrified. Since the house was given to him, he didn't have homeowners insurance. The inside of the house got really wet because of the holes in the roof, so they have to rewire the house. Poor guy already had shit luck with his cars.
March 25 is a day to watch across southern plains. GFS has a pretty classic looking supercell dryline setup whereas the Euro isn't quite as bullish on it yet
Well, looking at it some more, it looks like the lead upper-level wave may arrive earlier in the day. That would help force storms early, outside of peak heating and would likely kill the potential
The legendary Chuck Doswell was on WeatherBrains the other day. Good stuff from a prominent severe storms researcher http://weatherbrains.com/weatherbrains/?p=6851