For weather geeks… some notes from the Birmingham NWS this afternoon on the idea of more storms this evening from the media IM session:
Tornado Watch issued up in Huntsville’s area a little while ago
storms are firing up there
and they have issued a couple of TORs associated with that watch
to the south
storms are beginning to fire in LA and southern MS
here….in between that action
dewpoints continue to be in the upper 50s climbing slowly into the lower 60s
the sun has really done a number over MS and western AL this afternoon
low level lapse rates are 8.5 C/KM
the cap over western AL that has inhibited development…is gone…
if you haven’t seen it already
our 18Z sounding that we put up
has the freezing level at 9700ft
this is very low and coupled with a wet bulb zero of only 7000ft
hail is going to be very likely once storm begin to fire up
and probably large hail stones
the actual front is still back over MS
so the expectation is for the isolated stuff ahead of the front to start firing up over the next hour or two
and then we still have the front to deal with later this evening
