kayman

It's likely to be wrong as FFC is always. I don't trust their forecasts.

This is what I was warning people about last night. This storm is not going to jettison east a quickly as they originally forecasted. It's starting to carve a track of its own regardless of the incoming trough to the west northwest of the storm. It's what I call doing a "frontal/jetstream buckle". Michael might wind up making landfall closer to Destin than it will be to Panama City.

Exactly, I have a hard time believing that areas of east Alabama like Auburn/Opelika and parts of west central Georgia like Metro Atlanta are going avoid unscathed by this system. It's westward bend is indicative of a likely shift further west than being forecasted by the models. I'm here in Atlanta and feel like we are going to experience 39+ mph winds gusts for an extended period in the next 36 hours and we are not prepared again for this. I feel like this is the surprise nobody is expecting from this system is a shift to the west when it makes landfall. This thing reminds me too much of Opal, all the way down to its track.

I have the feeling that this storm is not going to shift east as quickly as forecasted...

Here's footage of the tornado in Lee County Alabama

Reports are there was a tornado touchdown in the Opelika, Beauregard, and Smiths Station area of Lee County, Alabama with this tornado warned storm. The cuplet has redevloped near Crawford and west of Phenix City near Ladonia in Russell County, Alabama

PDS Tornado Watch issued until 11:00PM Central

The storm over Madison County is rotating with large hail...