01/08/08 NOW: AR / MS / TN / KY

[Billy Griffin]

Murray, KY looks to be in the line of fire unless it's undercut again. Impressive couplet on radar currently, though.

 

[Justin E. Reed]

Murray, KY looks to be in the line of fire unless it's undercut again. Impressive couplet on radar currently, though.

Funnel cloud spotted 2 miles W of Murray, and rapid rotation was accompaning the funnel cloud. Strong rotation on both Fort Campbell and Paducah radars. Also, very heavy rain and hail was in the immediate area of the funnel, so good luck to Calloway County, this will move across Land Between the Lakes, then into Trigg Co., KY, near Cadiz.

 

[Justin E. Reed]

The tornado warned storms near Evansville, IN are very discrete and completely surrounded by moderate to heavy, persistent rain. This area is definetly in a bad situation, considering the environment the rotating storm are in. Relatively little lightning and not very easily identifiable on radar, unless you use velocity mode. Otherwise, in Central Mississippi, the squall line is continuing to kick, especially in the Grenada and Winona areas. Storms continue to slowly develop in areas SW of Jackson, MS , as well as near Marksville, Alexandria, and Opelousas in Louisiana.

 

[Terry Tyler]

its rumbling pretty hard out here...

looks like lee, pontotoc and itawamba counties are going to miss out on the severe part of the line...there were a couple of storms that started forming SW of lee county right at sundown...i was watching them, and it looks like that rain cooled air might be starting to effect that portion of the line, as it is remaining below severe limits...

there is a nice bow down coming into houston, with what looks like a book end vorticy near bruce...looks to be pretty hairy...

oh, and there is an incredible light show going on out here...

 

[Justin E. Reed]

A new tornado warning just SE of Jackson, MS. This is the same storm that prompted warning earlier this evening north of Natchez, so its holding together fairly well, and appears to be tightning back up. Storms continue to further intensify and develop throughout southern Mississippi, with a continuing nasty cluster that produced warning around Grenada is approaching Columbus, MS, with warnings in tow. One storm in Louisiana is showing some signs of rotation in the mid levels and is all alone and free to roam around. Its located just shy of halfway between Lafayette and Baton Rouge, and appears it'll ride parallel, yet just north of I-10 to the capitol city. Baton Rouge/Tiger Town needs to watch this storm closely as its inflow is completely uninhibited. A new watch is going to be issued very shortly for Middle TN, my hometown included, and Ctrl KY, as well as northern and central AL, possibly as far south as Mobile, but unlikley south of a Meridian, Tuscaloosa, to Birmingham line.

 

[Justin E. Reed]

Classic line-echo wave thunderstom line is plowing through TN right now, just pushing into the NWS Nashville area of responsibility. The strongest is a very nasty storm near Decaturville, and is moving at a quick 65mph! It is on a collision course with my hometown of Murfreesboro between 720 and 800pm, at current storm motion. It has shown sign of rotation at mid levels and produced damage back in Memphis earlier. The strongest storm is a toss up between the warned SE of Jackson, and the cluster getting ready to bombard Columbus and Columbus AFB. The Nashville area should be on high alert over the next hour and a half, the storms are showing signs of intensifying right now. Meridian is in the line of fire within the next hour, to hour and a half as a mean supercell, with a history of possible tornadoes, and confirmed damagin winds over 70mph is heading its way. The storm maintains a tornado warning as it moves along and a hook echo.

 

[Chad Cowan]

Tornadic storm about to move into Raleigh, MS:

Look at that inflow!

 

[Justin E. Reed]

OMG, this is one nasty storm, best pronounced hook, IMO, of the past 2 days! If this thing isn't producing a tornado, then something isn't right. More warnings are going up in TN, plus one storm in the line approaching Nashville is starting to rotate, pretty much right over I-40, near the Hickman, Humphreys County border. TOR Watch #11 has been issued. extending from the TN/KY line, all the way south to the LA/MS border, around McComb, Mississippi. This does include the metro areas of Nashville, Huntsville, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Jackson,MS and goes until 0100 tomorrow. Wouldn't count out a tornado warning for the cell currently over McComb, MS right now while I'm thinkin of it.

Watch #11
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0011.html

 

[Justin E. Reed]

Looks like its starting to settle down as the classic squall line is taking shape. Besides isolated spinups, I'm pretty much nixing the tornado threat, and leaning to a damaging wind threat, yet even that appears to be settling, somewhat. What a show these past 2 days have been, what a way to kick off a new year, with one helluva bang. Now, looking forward to this coming weekend, when the Gulf Coast has its time, mainly on Saturday and early Sunday it appears. I'm off, so I'll set up shop in the Dothan area Friday night.