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slickdawg
5/10/2006, 12:14 PM
yet we can't get a freakin drop of rain down here


SEL2
SPC WW 101705

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 332
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1200 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM NOON UNTIL 900 PM CDT.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 50 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 110 MILES WEST OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI TO 20 MILES EAST OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 328...WW 329...WW 330...WW 331...

DISCUSSION...THE LOW-LEVELS CONTINUE TO DESTABILIZE ALONG AND S OF A COMPOSITE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS CENTRAL MS...NEAR AND JUST N OF I-20. MLCAPE VALUES IN EXCESS OF 3000 J/KG ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON IN THE WARM SECTOR...WHILE THE CAP GRADUALLY WEAKENS.
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT APPEARS LIKELY BY EARLY AFTERNOON ALONG THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY...AND POTENTIALLY BY MID AFTERNOON IN THE WARM SECTOR IMMEDIATELY S OF THE BOUNDARY. DEEP LAYER VERTICAL SHEAR WILL BE SUFFICIENT FOR SUPERCELLS AND BOW ECHOES CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE MOST INTENSE STORMS.

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 3 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 550. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 27030.

..THOMPSON

Pricetag
5/10/2006, 12:15 PM
Where do you live? I'm afraid to walk in my yard out of fear of sinking right now.

slickdawg
5/10/2006, 12:17 PM
Coastal Mississippi.

VeeJay
5/10/2006, 01:02 PM
Everything's so dry here there are fires everywhere.

Yesterday was one of those brilliant sunsets with the smoke coming from the Everglades.

This morning, when I walked outside the smell was all in the air.

People with respiratory or lung problems can't even be outside when it gets like this now.

OUinFLA
5/10/2006, 02:03 PM
VeeJay, we actually got an inch of rain yesterday morning.
By 9 am it had all dissappeared. The ground is like a giant sponge.
Three fires this week south of Tampa.
The one down by you seems to be constant.

slickdawg
5/10/2006, 02:24 PM
All of this means another active hurricane season. ****!

Osce0la
5/10/2006, 02:31 PM
We just got some pretty nice storms here...I think we're supposed to get more in a little while as well...
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5938/dfbg5km.png (http://imageshack.us)