The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
-Psalm 19:1

Do you know that God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
-Job 37:15



Thursday, March 11, 2010

Severe potential in south Georgia

SKY WATCH FRIDAY time! Welcome all sky fans!!! I truly appreciate your visit and comments.

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Thanks, also,to Dot and Tom, who were instrumental in the success of this blogging event. You should definitely come fly with us!
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, a Thursday pretty much makes things a shoe-in for severe weather if the parameters are anywhere near present. That area that was merely a "See Text" area on the graphic yesterday, has been given a slight risk for severe weather today, which my neck of the woods is included in... In fact, we fall within an area of a 5% chance of tornadoes spawning. If you start to see anything like to shot above, we could be in for a doozy! We could be in for a doozy even if not though. This same system produced destructive tornadoes yesterday. There were 5 tornado reports, including reports of injuries in Arkansas and Louisiana. Several homes were destroyed. Another big story with this monster storm was the hail. Severe hail fell all over the storm ravaged area with some reports that hail was 2 3/4" in size. Here's what the Storm Prediction Center has to say about today's threat:

DESPITE MODEST CAPE (which is being limited by the overcast skies)...GIVEN INCREASINGLY MOIST LOW-LVL ENVIRONMENT AND DEGREE OF BOTH LOW-LVL AND DEEP SHEAR...SETUP WILL SUPPORT SHORT LINES/CLUSTERS OF STORMS WITH EMBEDDED LEWPS/SUPERCELLS. THESE MAY PRODUCE BOTH TORNADOES AND DMGG WIND GIVEN STRENGTH OF LWR TROPOSPHERIC FLOW AND LARGE LOW-LVL HODOGRAPHS...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTN. WHILE THE SVR THREAT MAY DIMINISH THIS EVE...THE THREAT MAY INCREASE AGAIN LATER TONIGHT/EARLY FRI AS THE LLJ REDEVELOPS AHEAD OF APPROACHING UPR IMPULSE.
Incidentally, a similar area of severity is mapped out for tomorrow.If not for the Dewvoid, I would expect that area of slight risk to expand to my area. We shall see... I could actually chase tomorrow.

Have a safe day!
~Dewdrop

17 comments:

  1. Guess you will be busy sky watching then.

    Have a great weekend.

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  2. We had 2 1/2 inches of rain overnight and this morning in North Florida.

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  3. I'm in Tallahasse and yes we received your rain.....we do not want any twisters around here. Last year my husband watched one rip off the roof at the school he was working at...all he had was his little job trailer to sit in and pray!

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  4. Beautiful photo of clouds!Thank you for sharing and have a nice weekend!

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  5. It came out of know where...well, so they say..

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  6. Looks like bad skies over a fairly large area. I guess this is your busy season!

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  7. I love those huge clouds! We had some of those here in the past few days, too. Terrific shot as always! Hope you have a great weekend!

    Sylvia

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  8. This is Scary, Gorgeous!! Great shot!!

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  9. I like the sepia use in this one, I bet you get a lot of severe weather in Georgia. Thanks for sharing with us Dewdrop:)

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  10. Dewdrop, what a gorgeous photo!

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  11. its raining here now but at 11.00pm I cant see the clouds we have had either blue cloudless sky or wall to wall cloud this week here in Margate in the UK. XXX Don

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  12. Looks like an awesome thunderhead.

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  13. Gorgeous tone of light in those rolling clouds! Great photo!

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  14. Wow wow wow! Amazing and dramatic clouds!

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  15. Awesome looking cloud photo! We are expected to have a couple inches of rain this weekend. Thank God it is not snow.

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  16. Fantastic cumulus! is it cumulus?
    I'm learning now:)

    I went out of town last weekend. It rained there and cloud seeding only:(.
    Still warm around here.

    Wishing you a lovely weekend.

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