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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Saturday April 14, 2007
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LEBANESE FOOD AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Saint Elias Maronite Catholic Church
April 13-14, 2007 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
836 8th Street South--Near University Boulevard & 8th Street South

Get Homemade Lebanese Food Lunch and Dinner April 13 - 14
Easy Friday Lunch -- Fast Service in/out in minutes -- Take out or dine in.
For really fast service come early or late. We serve food the whole day.
You can also have food delivered to your place of business for Friday
lunch.Click on our website below for details.

Baked Kibbee, spinach pies, rolled grape leaves, fresh grilled lemon
chicken, loobia (spiced green beans), and sweets galore.
Have you ever tried Lebanese ice cream or the traditional baklawa?
Visit the a-la-carte station - inside only - Meat Pies, Spinach Pies,
Grape Leaves, Tabouleh, and Homus. Stock up.

Take a tour of the church, visit our heritage room and learn more
about the language of Aramaic spoken at our liturgy. See scenes of
Lebanon in our main hall. Silent Auction and Live Band from New York,
back by popular demand, each evening. Shuttle service Friday and
Saturday night from 5-9 from Epic School parking lot. Follow the signs.

All this and there is No Admission Charge. 25% of all proceeds go to
charities other than St. Elias Church. For more info and a complete menu,
visit our website at http://www.stelias.org/festival_2007.html
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...Severe Weather Possible Today...

Alabama will be under the gun from a strong Spring storm system today.
A warm front will be setting up across North Central Alabama this
morning. Low pressure will begin developing along the front and
intensifying as it moves eastward. Instability and wind shear values
will be sufficient for supercell storms to form this morning across
the areas near and south of the front. Then a cold front will enter
western sections of the state early this afternoon. A line of severe
thunderstorms will push eastward ahead of the front. These storms
will be severe also, with the threat of damaging winds and isolated
tornadoes. Rain will end from west to east tonight.

SUNDAY: Tomorrow will be a blustery day with a strong northerly wind.
Afternoon highs will struggle to reach to 60 degree mark. Skies
should clear late in the day, and the mercury will drop like a rock
Sunday night, reaching the middle 30s on average. A few normally
colder locations may approach freezing by Monday morning.

WEEK AHEAD: Temperatures rebound a bit on Monday, with highs back
into the upper 60s. Tuesday looks like a pleasant day, with readings
starting off near 40 and rising into the lower 70s. The storm track
takes on a southern bent in the week ahead, with low pressure
developing to the west of us and then diving toward the Gulf Coast.
We may see some showers late on Tuesday into Wednesday, but the best
rain chances may be over South Alabama.

DALLAS WAKE UP CALL: The City of Dallas may have dodged a bullet last
evening as a severe thunderstorm moved across the Metroplex. The
storm was extremely intense in Tarrant County, where Fort Worth is
located. It became very intense just north of downtown Fort Worth,
producing lots of large hail, including baseball sized hail at the NWS
Fort Worth. It produced a tornado in the Haltom City community. The
main part of the storm headed directly for downtown Dallas. The large
supercell storm cycled down in intensity as it passed over the city,
but began to ramp up again after it passed through Highland Park. No
significant damage was report in the Metroplex. Other reports of
funnel clouds and tornadoes were received from areas east of the
Metroplex.

ON THIS DATE IN 1927: Issac Cline of Galveston 1900 fame was the
chief weatherman at New Orleans as the Great Mississippi River Flood
of 1927 was raging across the Midwest and South. He was issuing
forecasts of river crests on the Big Muddy that were being ignored by
New Orleans newspapers, who didn't want to publicize the potential
economic calamity that their port city was facing. On this date,
Cline called the newspapermen into his office and charged them with
jeopardizing the city's safety.

ON THIS DATE IN 1927: Hailstones weighing up to 2.2 pounds killed 92
people in the Gopalganj area of Bangladesh. The hail was reportedly
the size of pumpkins. This is the world's worst modern hailstorm.
Thousands of livestock were killed.

Bill Murray

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TODAY
Breezy with showers and thunderstorms. Some may be strong to severe.
Afternoon High 73
WIND: SW 12-22

SUNDAY
Blustery. Mostly cloudy, windy and colder. Some lingering light rain
ending early.
Morning Low 44 Afternoon High 52
WIND: NW 12-25

MONDAY
Sunny. A cold morning with scattered light frost possible.
Morning Low 34 Afternoon High 68
WIND: N 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 40 Afternoon High 71
WIND: NE 4-8

WEDNESDAY
Increasing clouds. A few scattered showers.
Morning Low 47 Afternoon High 66
WIND: E 6-12

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