3/22/2012 — Severe system stalls — South / Midwest tornadoes, hail, flooding continues

watch the video update here:

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This system is now hanging out over the area of North Texas to Central Oklahoma (center of the low pressure system)… it is STILL producing tornado watches / warnings in the south USA — damaging winds in the midwest , and possible tornadoes near the center of the storm in Texas.

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Overall, we need to watch for the next few days still.. Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri Arkansas, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, W. Virginia, Ohio… all these states are either effected now, or will receive portions of this storm in the coming 2 days.

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The NEXT system will have to push this system along.. right now its moving VERY slowly north east.. the temperature differential between in front of the storm, and behind it is about 30-40 degrees.. add in a little gulf moisture and thats the recipe for severe weather and flooding rains.

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This screenshot below shows the humidity and moisture out ahead of the storm (being illuminated by the nexrad stations at each location) producing “background clutter” on the RADAR.

Behind the storm.. cooler dry air prevents “background clutter” from forming as abundantly. The areas with the highest humidity — which lie in between the highest temperature differentials — are the areas to watch along the storms front edge(s) inner eye wall and outer edge of the storm (usually on south , southeast, east, northeast side).

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Now look at this screenshot below from intellicast.. look at the temps in front of the storm, and behind it.. compare to the above pic of the “background clutter humidity”…. also pay attention to which way the “tornado” is pointed.. that is the direction the whole storm is slowly moving.

Put it all together, and this will show you the areas which will get severe weather tomorrow.

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