re: Tornado! Louisiana and Mississippi Edition

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From earlier in Durant, MS

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Dorthy heading in..

I don't like the what ifs.

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1849 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0947 PM CST TUE NOV 29 2016 AREAS AFFECTED...PORTIONS OF CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST MS INTO EASTERN LA CONCERNING...TORNADO WATCH 508... VALID 300347Z - 300445Z THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR TORNADO WATCH 508 CONTINUES. SUMMARY...THE RISK FOR TORNADOES -- POSSIBLY SIGNIFICANT -- IS INCREASING ACROSS THE AREA. DISCUSSION...DISCRETE/SEMI-DISCRETE SUPERCELL STRUCTURES ARE ONGOING FROM NORTHEAST OF VICKSBURG MS SOUTHWESTWARD INTO EAST-CENTRAL LA... AND ADDITIONAL CONVECTION IS DEVELOPING EASTWARD TOWARD INTERSTATE 55. ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TRACKING EAST-NORTHEASTWARD. THE JACKSON MS VAD WIND PROFILE IS INDICATING AROUND 300 M2/S2 OF 0-1-KM SRH WITH AROUND 60 KT OF DEEP SHEAR. WITH AMPLE LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUING TO EXIST ACROSS THE AREA AIDING IN THE MAINTENANCE OF AROUND 1000 J/KG OF MLCAPE...SUPERCELLS WITH A TORNADO RISK WILL EXIST...AND SIGNIFICANT TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE CORRIDOR AROUND THE NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY...AND EASTWARD TOWARD THE INTERSTATE 55 CORRIDOR NEAR/SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20...COULD BE A FAVORED ZONE FOR MATURING SUPERCELL STRUCTURES CAPABLE OF TORNADOES IN THE SHORT-TERM. ..COHEN.. 11/30/2016

Man, what a pain.

Yeah, that would not be good.

Directly in the path of tornado just south of Athens, AL

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Too soon to tell how bad it's going to get for south LA?

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Yea, the New Orleans weather balloon launch from earlier this evening still showed some things that would keep storms from really getting going until much later. If that holds, then it will most likely be a nasty squall line with straight line winds but pretty low tornado threat. Radar still seems to support that. Keep an eye out for any storms the try to fire off to the SW of BR down towards the coast.

Alabama, north Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia have a 2nd tornado season in November-December. And they usually occur at night. Sucks . And bama is bone dry. Pray for my friends tonight up there and Tennessee.

I'd say north Mississippi and north Alabama, you don't see many tornadoes on the coast.