The manager of this Subway in Chattanooga sent everyone home Friday after seeing a few trees tumble down the hill behind the place. Yesterday, the building was flattened. https://www.timesfreepress.com/news...-restaurant-destroyed-mudslide-photos/489327/ (And really, what an odd looking Subway it was in the first place.)
We’ve got a Subway in Rogers that looks like that, and it’s a drive thru subway too. Only one I’ve ever seen like that
Seen some high end EF-3 possible low end EF-4 damage with the Columbus, MS tornado. The violent tornado streak is in jeopardy.
A tree fell on the building the day before while a health inspector was in the building. They lost power and the health inspector stuck around to make sure they would be closing due to lack of electricity. A bbq joint nwxt door was shut down for precaution as well.
Never seen one, but can only imagine how long the line is. People can't decide as it is on the inside whether they want peppers or onions, much less doing it blindly in front of a menu board.
Another messy convective mode day tomorrow. If some discrete storms get going, the tornado threat would be enhanced. Likely MCS/squall line a bit later in the day
If you want to read an actual outlook, compared to AccuWeather's blurb with a very specific number, read this: https://www.ustornadoes.com/2019/03/01/spring-2019-seasonal-tornado-outlook/ Lot of teleconnection stuff and El nino impacts, that are a little out of my league
Weird day on tap. We shall see. I do feel, as of right now, that some of the low-level winds, especially storm-relative, are more favorable today than last event. Ternader:
Rotation aloft...circulation/mesocyclone center denoted by little red square. Velocity on the right panel: reds away from radar, green towards --> implies rotation.
Here's a good example from a few minutes ago about not getting too carried away when you see a velocity couplet (red/green area circled on right panel). Notice it is not correlated with a corresponding area of reflectivity...meaning it's likely an artifact. Called sidelobe contamination
Also to be mindful of timestamps. In this instance, rounding within radarscope puts the velocity display a "minute" ahead of the reflectivity on the left. When in actuality, the difference is less than 30 seconds. If the images are within a minute of one another or show same time along with the above error, it's not a valid couplet. If your times are off by more than that, it could be valid, just that the other image hasn't updated yet. At that point you'd clarify if the reflectivity signature and the velocity overlap/are well correlated.
Low level rotation isn't all that impressive. Certainly rotating aloft, so could definitely see something. Hail core looks to stay north and west of the airport there.
Even with that likely not being a huge threat to you. There are more downstream (west and south) of you that warrant watching. Not out of the woods yet.
Yeah, I expect this to be just the beginning. I'm excited to sit in the garage and watch for a few hours.
Sounds like all these storms are rotating but not dropping funnel clouds. Tornado warnings all over south AL but no reported funnels.
That storm in Macon County, AL has a very impressive mesocyclone aloft. If it can get it's act together in the low-levels, look out. It's in a rather favorable environment. When looking at straight velocity (below right is storm-relative, which subtracts the motion of the storm), it has over 100 knot winds at ~6000 feet. Very impressive.
And a textbook example of a bounded weak echo region (BWER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_weak_echo_region) and the meso aloft. Basically the little hole in the left panel is where the updraft has suspended rain/hail from failing as it rockets vertically. This is about ~7100 feet