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Severe March 29th-30th Severe Weather Threat

Does anyone know why WSBTV mets have to change the SPC color key for the severe weather? Right now it looks like a for slight risk of storms in Metro Atlanta and then the south western little area is in enhanced because they changed the colors. Are they trying to spook their audiences? I am well aware of the SPC color key and an avid amateur weather watcher but what about the rest of the people in GA that aren't? Is it worth it to try and contact Burns and see if he will respond? o_O This has been bothering me for a while and because we are about to go into severe weather mode I'm hoping ya'll can help figure this out.

Here's to hoping that the areas that were hit hard on March 19 just get gentle rains and some spring thunder and nothing else!
They do it because they want to show the area most likely to get the severe weather. Yeah, they should be consistent with spc, but I don't think one person asking will change their minds. You would need dozens of people to comment about it before they decide to change it.
 
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Latest from SPC:
...Southern LA this morning to AL this afternoon...
Outflow from previous convection has stalled from northwest AL to
central MS, while the primary band of thunderstorms is progressing
eastward across southern LA in advance of an ejecting midlevel
trough over TX. A weak surface wave will move along the outflow
boundary from southern LA/MS to central AL in conjunction with the
ongoing convection, and there will be some northward moisture
advection and surface heating in advance of the convective band into
central/southern AL. Though the larger buoyancy is expected this
morning across LA with the richest low-level moisture, at least weak
surface-based CAPE (roughly 500 J/kg) is expected as far north as
the I-20 corridor in AL by this afternoon. Deep-layer vertical
shear will remain sufficient for embedded organized storms,
including supercells and/or bowing segments capable of producing
damaging winds. Likewise, some enhancement to low-level shear is
expected in response to the approach of the surface wave and
midlevel trough, with sufficient low-level shear for some tornado
threat. The severe-storm threat will begin to wane this evening as
the weak surface wave and midlevel trough move away from the
lingering weakly unstable warm sector across southern AL.
 
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Latest from SPC:
..Discussion...
A midlevel low across the south-central United States will fill and
quickly lift northeast through the day. At the surface, a weak
surface low across northern Arkansas will rapidly move northeast
into southeast Canada by tomorrow morning. A trailing cold front
will slowly push east.

Across the southeast, the low-level jet will maintain low-level
theta-e advection within a narrow corridor ahead of the slowly
eastward moving cold front. This should continue for much of the
day, before weakening this afternoon and evening as the main trough
lifts northeast from the area. The theta-e advection will maintain a
narrow plume of moist and modestly unstable air through at least
this afternoon after which the cold front should overtake most of
the modest warm sector. Before the complete erosion of the warm
sector, both shallow and deep convection will be possible. Despite
modest instability a few damaging wind gusts and a couple of
tornadoes will be possible given the strength of the low-level wind
fields.
 
Latest from SPC:
...20Z Update...
Previous outlook reasoning generally remains on track. Primary
change with this update is to spatially confine the 5 percent
tornado probabilities to southern portions of the risk area where a
slightly more favorable thermodynamic environment exists. Latest
VWP data from KMOB sampled 0-3 KM SRH in excess of 250 M2/S2, and
any stronger cell developing in advance of the outflow
boundary/effective cold front would have some potential to develop
transient low-level rotation.

The 18Z BMX sounding showed a pronounced mid-level subsidence
inversion with a base at 700MB, contributing to only weak
surface-based buoyancy. Despite limited instability, low-level (850
mb) wind fields will strengthen through this evening across the
MRGL/SLGT risk areas, suggesting some continued potential for
isolated/widely scattered damaging gusts with the stronger
storms/short line segments.
 
Does anyone know why WSBTV mets have to change the SPC color key for the severe weather? Right now it looks like a for slight risk of storms in Metro Atlanta and then the south western little area is in enhanced because they changed the colors. Are they trying to spook their audiences? I am well aware of the SPC color key and an avid amateur weather watcher but what about the rest of the people in GA that aren't? Is it worth it to try and contact Burns and see if he will respond? o_O This has been bothering me for a while and because we are about to go into severe weather mode I'm hoping ya'll can help figure this out.

Here's to hoping that the areas that were hit hard on March 19 just get gentle rains and some spring thunder and nothing else!

Glen does not like the SPC outlook. He prefers to use numbers to the slight, moderate, etc. He says that the wording is confusing. As far as the colors I have no idea. They should stick to green and yellow but, oh well.
 
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