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Pattern May-hem

Confusion over watch coverage area shown in two images above.

One is for the entire state: https://s16.postimg.org/3p51e27et/Screen_Shot_2017-05-24_at_10.58.18_AM.png

One is for middle to south GA: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAmbpIDXoAAn1Gw.jpg

Which one is accurate? The second one doesn't have a watch # or timestamp, so.. ?
Look at this page: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/ - the upper right; click watches; looks like 2 different watches but between them covering GA.
 
Confusion over watch coverage area shown in two images above.

One is for the entire state: https://s16.postimg.org/3p51e27et/Screen_Shot_2017-05-24_at_10.58.18_AM.png

One is for middle to south GA: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAmbpIDXoAAn1Gw.jpg

Which one is accurate? The second one doesn't have a watch # or timestamp, so.. ?
Both are valid watches, and go to the same time. Here is the matching image for the other watch.
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Enhanced Risk area expanded north and west and now includes much of NC.
Edit: ^ Ninja'd! :)
 
Looks like things should be rocking here starting around 6:00.

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Guarantee that gusts are reaching this alert level:

... Significant weather advisory for Alachua... Bradford... west central
Putnam... southern Baker and Union counties until 100 PM EDT...

At 1217 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Palestine community to 7 miles northeast
of Williston. Movement was northeast at 40 mph.

Wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph can be expected along with possible minor
wind damage.

Locations impacted include...
Gainesville, Starke, Lake Butler, Keystone Heights, Raiford, Melrose,
Worthington Spring, Alachua, Hawthorne and Glen St. Mary.
 
That line is moving very slowly. It is probably going to have time to develop into something worse, or not. Also on another note, our lake here has gone up a foot since the system started, so good news on the drought relief. I expect a downgrade in the drought across the upper Southeast. Too bad the areas that need it aren't getting too much.

The sun is starting to come out now, so here we go with the instability building.
 
At 1217 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Palestine community to 7 miles northeast
of Williston. Movement was northeast at 40 mph.

Wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph can be expected along with possible minor
wind damage.

Locations impacted include...
Gainesville, Starke, Lake Butler, Keystone Heights, Raiford, Melrose,
Worthington Spring, Alachua, Hawthorne and Glen St. Mary.

Hoping you are getting some much needed rainfall with all of the storms passing through.
 
It's downright chilly in Raleigh right now.
Well per the NWS morning update you are south of the wedge front so you shouldn't be chilly ;) Details below give you a sense of just why this is such a complex scenario

Three noteworthy features can be seen on the latest surface
analysis: a roughly west-east wedge/CAD frontal zone across the
northern Piedmont, a warm front lifting into southeastern NC, and a
cold front to our west through the W Ohio Valley and lower Miss
Valley. The latest high-res models take the wedge front northward
gradually this morning, with expectations that the warm/maritime
tropical front will rapidly retreat and potentially merge with the
wedge front across the central/western piedmont this afternoon. And
finally, the west-to-east passage of the cold/occluded front
(featuring a triple point low tracking near or just NW of the Triad)
very late evening through the overnight hours.
 
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