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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Sunday June 14, 2009
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...Rough Sunday...

It has been a fun weekend in Memphis. We punched through the huge bow
echo on Friday along US-78 in northern Mississippi, just ten minutes
after an EF-2 tornado touched down in Olive Branch. As we drove the
Olive Branch, all of the power was out and there was considerable
debris on the highway. One substantial sign was bent completely over
the ground, the large steel supports bent over. Several of the
breakaway highway signs were knocked over. As we arrived in Memphis,
the power was out to over 175,000 people. When I awakened to intense
thunder in Memphis this morning, I knew Alabama was going to get it
later. The thunderstorm complex descended southeastward, running into
moderate to strongly unstable air as it moved into Alabama. CAPEs
were running 2500-3000 j/kg through the middle of the state. The
result was an intensifying bow echo that raced through the state at
over 50 mph.

RAINFALL WATCH: A total of 1.68 inches of rain fell today at the
Skycam site on top of the Daniel Building in downtown Birmingham.
Some street flooding was reported along 3rd Avenue West in
Birmingham. Nearly an inch of rain (0.91) fell at the Birmingham
International Airport during today's severe storms. This will push
our annual rainfall total to 29.12 inches, which is nearly two inches
above normal. When we started Friday, we actually had a rainfall
deficit for the year.

THROUGH TONIGHT: This morning's storm complex laid down a mini-
frontal system across the northern half of the state today. A few
light showers were over eastern Mississippi at mid-afternoon. It
remains to be seen if those showers will hold together long enough to
move into Central Alabama. We will keep a chance of showers in the
forecast through the evening and overnigh, mainly south and west of
Birmingham.

MORE STORMS AHEAD? If you look at the weather pattern across the
southern states, right now, it doesn't look a lot different from
yesterday or today. This leads one to believe that we will see
another complex of thunderstorms form later to the northwest of
Alabama. Any complex that does so will move southeastward toward
Alabama. Now, if there is any difference, it is t hat the storm
track may be edging just a hair to the north. This could push the
storm complex more to the northeast, perhaps affecting Northeast
Alabama. We will just have to wait and see. Whoever does get one
will get some active weather for sure. .

TUESDAY AND BEYOND: High pressure should begin to build over Alabama
and the Deep South, ending the thunderstorm conveyor belt.
Temperatures should trend to hotter and storm chances should go down.

ON THIS DATE IN 1972: Hurricane Agnes began life as a tropical
disturbance off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on this date.
As the disturbance moved northward across the Gulf of Mexico the
following two days, she strengthened to a tropical storm. Agnes
would make landfall on the Northwest Florida coast as a minimal
hurricane on the 19th, but the real damage would come a few days later
as the remnants of the storm stalled over the Northeast, producing
tremendous flooding in Pennsylvania.

Bill Murray
bill.murray@theweathercompany.com

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TONIGHT
Partly cloudy with a chance of a few showers.
Morning Low 70
WIND: NW 5-10

MONDAY
Partly cloudy and hot. Another round of thunderstorms possible.
Morning Low 70 Afternoon High 92
WIND: NW 6-12

TUESDAY
Partly cloudy, hot and humid. Slight chance of an afternoon
thunderstorm.
Morning Low 71 Afternoon High 92
WIND: SW 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Partly cloudy. A slight chance of an afternoon storm.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 93
WIND: W/SW 6-12

THURSDAY
Partly cloudy and hot. A small chance of an afternoon storm.
Morning Low 72 Afternoon High 93
WIND: SW 6-12

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