Just 8 days after a damaging tornado outbreak in the Deep South, another deadly outbreak occurred on Thursday (and is ongoing as of the writing of this blog).
Below is the severe weather outlook issued by the NWS Storm Prediction Center on Thursday morning.
Notice the high risk and moderate risk areas encompassing parts of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. Those areas had many severe thunderstorms and some damaging tornadoes. Sadly, as of Thursday night, 5 fatalities have occurred, all due to very strong tornadoes in Alabama.
The very damaging nature of this outbreak was shown when over 3 tornado emergencies were issued in parts of the Deep South. The definition of a tornado emergency is below:
Tornado Emergency: An exceedingly rare tornado warning issued when there is a severe threat to human life and catastrophic damage from an imminent or ongoing tornado. This tornado warning is reserved for situations when a reliable source confirms a tornado, or there is clear radar evidence of the existence of a damaging tornado, such as the observation of debris.
A tornado emergency is very rare, and to have multiple tornado emergencies in one day shows the severity of this outbreak. This tornado outbreak will continue through late Thursday night (Pacific time). Below is a link to an article about the outbreak and its damage.
https://weather.com/news/news/2021-03-25-tornadoes-georgia-alabama-mississippi-tennessee-south
As this blog was written, a Tornado Emergency was issued for the area of Newnan, Georgia (about 35 mi SW of Atlanta).
You are able to see the damaging tornado on radar (outlined). The image on the right indicated a mile-wide area of debris lofted into the air by the tornado. Damage is likely, and sadly, nighttime tornadoes are the deadliest kind due to limited warning.
The City of Newnan confirmed "heavy damage" to their historic downtown area due to the tornado on their Twitter page.
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Some of you might have heard about the SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink rocket that burned up on re-entry into the atmosphere over Seattle and Portland around 9 PM PDT on Thursday. Some information is below:
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/what-was-that-lights-streak-across-night-sky-in-washington/281-7470aba0-5de8-45a8-8bbb-4e1a806147d8
What an interesting and rare event!
Expect dry days with highs in the 50s on Friday and Saturday! A potent frontal system will move into Western Washington on Sunday, bringing a return of rain & wind.
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