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Significant severe weather threat Thursday. Damaging winds, hail and tornadoes will all be possible from midday through the evening hours.

…THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY FROM THE TENNESSEE VALLEY NORTHWARD TO SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN…

Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible from portions of
Mississippi and Alabama northward through central Tennessee and
Kentucky into Indiana, western Ohio and southern Michigan. Damaging
winds, hail and tornadoes will all be possible from midday through
the evening hours.

While ingredients are there for strong tornadoes, there are also some limiting factors in play. Now is the time to prepare. The potential exists for a significant severe weather threat.

 

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On This Day: The 1993 Storm of the Century

Courtesy of NOAA, NWS, Tim Armstrong

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On March 12–14, 1993, a massive storm system bore down on nearly half of the U.S. population. Causing approximately $5.5 billion in damages ($9.8 billion in 2019 dollars), America’s “Storm of the Century,” as it would become known, swept from the Deep South all the way up the East Coast.

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Four Forecast And Messaging Takeaways From The Southern Tornado Outbreak

Marshall Shepherd , Contributor

Damage from tornadoes in Alabama on March 3rd, 2019.NWS Birmingham
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(On March 3) a series of devastating tornadoes ripped through parts of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. According to Accuweather.com, “This was the deadliest tornado outbreak in the U.S. since May 2013, when a massive and devastating tornado killed 24 people in Moore, Oklahoma.” In one case, the National Weather Service even issued a rare tornado emergency because of expected damage from a “confirmed large and destructive tornado.” At least 23 fatalities have been confirmed, and I fear this number may increase as recovery efforts continue. As a meteorologist and a scientist who pays close attention to weather and the risk messaging, there are four things about this outbreak that I noticed.

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