03/09/06 NOW: Ok, Ark, Tx, and Mississippi / Tenn Valley

[Edward Ballou]

Originally posted by Brandon Clement
I dont see anything more than a squall line buzzing through in the next hour or two. Unless a cell fires out in front I will just be viewing this one from my house.

Seem to be some pops ahead of the squall. A mesoscale discussion I read not too long ago predicted this would happen.

I'm watching my chase target (in the Forecast Game) pretty closely. North of the LA, MS corner of a border.

We'll see if those blips on the radar can actually grow into something more mature.

 

[Brandon Clement]

There is some rotation in the line just to the north I20. I'm also seeing a little cell trying to get going about 30 miles SW of Jackson but nothing even close to impressive. I doubt anything fires between the line and Jackson. I actually think that there is a chance that a few storms MAY fire in SW Mississippi where the instability is a bit higher. If the sun would have come out this morning I think this would be a different game.

 

[HAltschule]

While I highly doubt the 95 mph storm motion is accurate, I do believe a 50-70mph speed is more likely. One heck of a bow just went through Columbus, MS with 73mph winds. Also, town in MS is reported an unkown number of injuries at an elementray school whose roof was ripped off.

 

[Dan Robinson]

I'm impressed by the sharp dropoff of dewpoints that this squall line is moving toward. Apparent downsloping off of the mountains. 71/27 in Jackson, Kentucky for example. Almost like a reverse dryline. 66/-2 in Lonesome Pine (LNP), although that looks suspect.

Everything should be gone in a couple of hours when it hits that, at least north of the TN/GA line.