* 80 degrees at mid-afternoon at Tuscaloosa Airport. It was 81 in Coker and 82 in Livingston. Meridian also has 80.
* That new Tornado Watch (Another PDS one) is unusually large. It covers more than half of Mississippi and touches the Alabama border. It extends north to include parts of West Tennessee, East Arkansas and northward all the way into southern Illinois.
* Radar at 4 pm showed two lines of thunderstorms. The main line extended from East and NE Texas across SE Oklahoma and NW Arkansas across the central parts of Missouri and Illinois. The second line, not as long and not a solid line extended from Central Louisiana NNE along the Arkansas/Mississippi border into the west edge of Tennessee. Little Rock radar indicated the max top in that line at 49K (49,000 feet over SE Arkansas.
* Here in Alabama, only a few small showers or storms at 4 pm, Strongest storms about 17 miles west of Athens. No real strong thunderstorms in Mississippi threatening to enter Alabama at this time.
