Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

Jackson covers them. It's about 50 miles away. All of their TV weather people do a good job, too. They were right on top of this thing.

 

The local United Way chapter is organizing some aid efforts, if anyone cares to donate. Here is the link for it.

 

Thanks, my friend.

I started a thread as well.

 

One of the things I've noticed about local TV coverage is as long as it's west of market, they stay on top of things. Once everything blows east, the bullet gets dodged so meteorologists tend to stand down.

 

I think it depends on the market. Growing up the Nashville stations never bothered with much more than a warning crawl, and didn’t even leave it up throughout the warning time. Moved to the Birmingham market for college and wall-to-wall coverage was the standard. Was in the Atlanta market a generation ago and they’d go to live coverage if it was Fulton County or any of the bordering counties, but those of us out in the hinterlands (i.e. Rome) were on our own.

 

I was in St. Louis once when a low-level tornado path was moving eastward from Kansas.
When the tornado got to Kansas City, they started blowing tornado sirens all the way over in St. Louis.

 

NWS calling it an F4 in Rolling Fork.

 

Danger zone shifts a little south today. Level 4 threat out of five from roughly Alexandria, La., east to Montgomery.

 

We’re about 50 miles west of Alexandria, but it looks like it’s going north of us.

 

Looks like it will run right over Tuscaloosa and then hit Birmingham around 9 or 10 tonight.

Lovely.

 

A storm producing 2-inch hail is passing over the Jackson area right now.

 

We saw the pictures from Friday in Mississippi. This was Sunday evening: