DanLarsen34

In keeping with the “under the radar” theme of today: Just issued watch is 90-70 for MS, AR, and LA.

A little surprised the initial watch across the moderate risk area in MS isn’t PDS. SPC said last year that the significant tornado percentage in the watch has to be 80% or higher to warrant the PDS language.

Won’t derail the thread with the language discussion, but I think it’s worth debating at some point whether that language should be reserved for set-ups where several significant tornadoes are likely, which is what SPC says it’s for, or if we should use for it set-ups where, even if there aren’t “several,” there could still be 1-2 violent long-track tornadoes.

1 hour ago, nwohweather said:

Is this going to be the main thread for today? That warm sector looks absolutely vicious for this afternoon

That’s part of why I’m surprised this thread hasn’t taken off yet. This could be a big event!