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re: SEVERE WEATHER: Moderate Risk for parts of LA & MS; Enhanced/Slight risk for most of AL
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:35 pm to 4LSU2
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:35 pm to 4LSU2
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TAKE COVER! Likely #TORNADO near Monticello, MS as of 430 pm is heading straight for Silver Creek and Prentiss areas any minute! This is an incredibly dangerous supercell. #mswx
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Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:35 pm to dukke v
On the contrary, it was a very windy day today in BR, but now it’s dead and eerie, no wind. That’s when you know it’s coming...
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:35 pm to Thracken13
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the saving grace is the Oak/Red Mountain ridges - storms tend to track north or south of them - i'm right at Brook Highland on 280 - and most stay north of us on the Downtown side or south in the columbianna/Chelsea area.
we had one touch down this past spring on the Double Oak MT ridge - could see it from my apartment....was not a cool feeling.
Yes while they *can* happen anywhere, I feel there is some sort of topographical connection for sure that steers them from certain areas like yours. That is a scary feeling when you come close to one though. I was hunkered down at UAB Med West for one event and the darn tornado was on the sky cam going right over us at the hospital. Yucked up the apartments next door to where we were riding it out. Not a good feeling knowing you're right in the path like that.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:40 pm to SidewalkTiger
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Seems like everyone around Tupelo has a tornado shelter including this gem I spotted near New Albany
Seems the tornado touched down and took down a church in Guntown.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:42 pm to Crimson1st
yeah - I have had one hopscotch over my apartment before - jumped me, touched down int he neighborhood between me and my office, then jumped our office and touched down in greystone - this was years ago.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:47 pm to Crimson1st
I don't think topography has too much to do with it. Maybe some localized ( talking an acre here or there) may lessen the impact, but if you look at historical tracks of tornadoes,they pretty much have covered the entire state
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:49 pm to East Coast Band
he isn't disputing that - what we are saying is that the majority of tornado warned storms int he Birmingham Metro area tend to track north of red mountain, or south of oak Mountain - it takes a pretty determined storm to com up the 459 corridor - which they can do, it is just not nearly as often - that has to be controlled to a large extent by Topography - but i have no real evidence to back it up.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:50 pm to Thracken13
When is the worst supposed to come through BR?
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:52 pm to Paul Allen
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Interesting how Baton Rouge is notably absent from the boundary. Any idea why it doesn’t include BR?
We don't ever seem to get many large tornadoes in South Louisiana. Not sure what the reason for this is.
We'll get smaller ones that may tear up a few houses but we never seem to get large ones that leave a huge path of destruction.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:53 pm to Thracken13
It just so happens that the "normal" track of tornadoes, from SW to NE, is in line with the Birmingham area mountain ranges. So, it's still more a function of the the atmosphere,etc , rather than the mountains steering them.
Perhaps,if you are on the North side downslope, for example in Greystone off 280, maybe that mountain will mitigate the effects on the ground level.
Perhaps,if you are on the North side downslope, for example in Greystone off 280, maybe that mountain will mitigate the effects on the ground level.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:55 pm to East Coast Band
it is possible - i mean what your saying makes sense - as I said - no expert here, I just know the storm has to be lucky or really badass to sneak up the 459 corridor
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:55 pm to fallguy_1978
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We don't ever seem to get many large tornadoes in South Louisiana. Not sure what the reason for this is.
I'd imagine it's the marine effect that tempers such extreme atmosphere conditions.
It's God's way of sparing the coast during the hurricane off-season
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:56 pm to East Coast Band
Yeah we have enough natural disasters as it is 
Posted on 12/16/19 at 4:59 pm to fallguy_1978
Posted on 12/16/19 at 5:13 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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Silver Creek
That's where my ancestors hail from.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 5:17 pm to Jim Rockford
Getting hairy in north AL. Radar is showing some big winds aloft and we have 2 warnings.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 5:24 pm to LegendInMyMind
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There is the tornado debris signature right over Courtland. Significant tornado west of Courtland. #ALwx
Posted on 12/16/19 at 5:26 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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NWS Huntsville
@NWSHuntsville
[5:19 PM]: Confirmed TORNADO entering North Courtland RIGHT NOW! SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!!! #HUNwx
Posted on 12/16/19 at 5:26 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Yep. It is on a "classic" track.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 5:28 pm to LegendInMyMind
Debris signature at 12000 ft
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