JB’s Journal 4/25/11

| April 25, 2011 @ 11:55 am | 4 Replies

As most of you know, I am a huge fan about numbers, that is why I sometimes post a Weather by the Numbers. I have been looking at a 50-state warning map last night and today and I am amazed. These notes:

* Very large percentage of the counties in the USA with some type of weather problem. Impossible to count them all but I would estimate 40% and that is a lot!

* Red Flag Warning or Fire Weather Watch for numerous counties in Texas. About 2/3rds of the counties in Texas have some type of watch, advisory, or warning.

* Tornado Watch until 6 pm for NE Texas, West Arkansas and SE Oklahoma.

* Lake Wind Advisory for much of Louisiana and Extreme East Texas

* 1/2 of Nevada under a Wind Advisory

* Flash Flood Watch for much of Tennessee and Extreme North Alabama.

* Every single county in New Mexico (I mean 100%) has a High Wind Watch or Wind Advisory. That also is the story in about the west half of Texas

* River Flood Warnings in parts of North Dakota and Eastern South Dakota

* Wintry weather in these areas: Number of counties in Western Colorado and also the Wasatch and West Uinta Mountains in Utah. 12 to 18 inches if snow forecast for the Wasatch.. The north part of the Cascades through Western Oregon and Washington will get 4 to 8 inches of snow.

* Computer forecasts suggests 8.20 inches of rain in parts of East Arkansas in the next five days! 3.25 inches in part of West Kentucky for the 24 hours ending Thursday morning. Estimate of 2.36 for the same period at Decatur in Extreme North Alabama.

A CONCERN: In times like these all kinds of rumors can get rolling. I received an email this morning from a person saying they had seen a report that the SPC was going to place all of Alabama and Tennessee under a High Risk of severe weather Wednesday. I did not see the report but that is not true. We don’t know that. The SPC also does not know that. Too far down the road. Of course it could happen but highly unlikely. But reports like that really scares people.

GOOD REPORT: Number of counties in Alaska at this time with advisories or warnings…an even zero!

One of these days, I still want to tell the story of how the weather term, “severe clear” was born but not today.

Out of here…

Category: Hodgepodge, Severe Weather

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