4/10/09 NOW: LA, MS, AL, GA, TN, KY

[Elinor McLennon]

http://www.wsmv.com/video/9624406/index.htm

live news link out of tennessee

 

[Dave Gallaher]

Storm moving into Jackson County, AL has a BWER. I just got back in from going through the core of the Madison County Tor-warned storm. Very intense--five minutes of golfballs, occasional larger impacts...

 

[Warren Faidley]

Interesting (TVS) and isolated cell crossing the state line into GA. Could be a serious threat to the Atlanta area in the next hour if it holds together. Although it took a right turn east in the last few scans, cell history today has been to eventually move back NE.

W.

 

[Thomas Dolmer]

Warmsector team are streaming live on TVN...

 

[Peter Wharton]

Dave Marshall is currently streaming on Chaser TV – www.chasertv.com – looks like he is in the middle of the major storms northwest of Atlanta. Have been scenes of him driving down the Interstate weaving around pieces of debris thrown across the Interstate. Recent shot of what looked like wall cloud and power flashes.

 

[cdcollura]

Good day all,

Impressive supercell now 20 or so miles west of Atlanta ... Moving due east.

Storm Attribute Table has TVS on it with hail POSH up to 1.75"

 

[Steve Miller]

Dave Marshall & Cliff Morey are in Cartersville, GA with a healthy stream of the torn warned cell there.

Warren, yeah, that cell you mentioned is moving toward Newnan, GA and becoming quite the beast. Glad it looks now like it will track south of Atlanta. Sure has great air in front of it...

 

[Dick McGowan]

AT 633 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR EPHESUS...MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH. (Georgia)

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES.


Can radar ever prove that there is/are strong to violent tornadoes in real-time? I'm pretty sure this was the same office issuing tornado emergencies (based on radar only, no visual confirmation) for rural areas a month or two back and the storms produced EF-0 and EF-1 tornadoes. Maybe the next TE wording will have to be "Tornado Apocalypse?" (They didn't use it this time however).

Looks like this supercell has weakened slightly the last few scans and it should pass south of Atlanta.

 

[Warren Faidley]

The previously mentioned storm SW of Atlanta appears to really be wrapping up. Lower scans look like feeder bands. Would not be surprised if it dropped a tornado shortly. Hopefully it will keep moving east and avoid Atlanta. Media is now paying attention.

W.

 

[Mark Farnik]

While the vicious looking wrapped up beast southwest of Atlanta looks like it's going to stay south of the city (though it looks like the circulation is going to nail Peachtree City and the NWS office there) Atlanta isn't out of the woods just yet.

There's another cell with a pretty decent couplet currently located about 90 miles west of Atlanta near Piedmont, AL. The storm track for that cell takes it straight into the heart of the Atlanta metro area in about an hour and a half or so, and the storm is deviating slightly to the right, which is somewhat ominous...

EDIT: Tornado reported on the ground in Newnan, heading straight towards Peachtree City. It appears the NWS office may take a direct hit from this tornado
A second tornado is also being reported on the ground near Aragon (NW of Atlanta).

EDIT 2: The cell that was in Cleburne Co. AL has crossed the state line into Harralson Co., GA and now has a TVS with 105 kts of indicated gate to gate shear. The circulation will be passing over the towns of Tallaposa and Buchanan shortly. The storm continues to deviate slightly south of east, and if it continues on it's current track, the couplet will track directly over central Atlanta in less than an hour... this could get very, very ugly.

 

[Warren Faidley]

Fox News in Atlanta reporting a tornado strike in the KOA campground in Commerce (sp?), GA. No other details. Looks like the only thing preventing this from being a **major** outbreak is the lack of substantially backed surface winds, or at least that is what is appears like from a quick glance at the data.

W.

 

[Eric Bucsela]

Looks like the only thing preventing this from being a **major** outbreak is the lack of substantially backed surface winds, or at least that is what is appears like from a quick glance at the data.

But huge helicities with mid-lvl flow from WNW. One of these storms is hitting my old neighborhood. Hope the folks are ok.

 

[Warren Faidley]

Looks like the majority of the cells near Atlanta are seeding each other so Atlanta may miss the bullet, tornado-wise, although anything can happen on a day like this and hail may still be an issue.

Warren

 

[Warren Faidley]

Dual TVS's heading towards Atlanta. I would hate to be working that NWS office! Thank God the TVS's of late seem to be brief with few tornado reports. Regardless, the stadium must be an interesting place right now.

W.

 

[Aaron Gerhardt]

Cell just west of Auburn and going right for it with a pretty noticeable hook, Auburn University just sent out their alert messages on top of the warning box.