Potential Severe Weather tomorrow, 3-22-22 (Update: Tornadoes on ground in metro area)

efil4stnias said

and last week, that Arabi tornado was at the TAIL end of the front line. Like had to be one of the last, if not the LAST cell passing thru that area.

I sat outside in Covington at 730pm enjoying the breeze and light rain thinking " boy they screwed the pooch on this one ( cancelled schools, many offices closed early etc )" and had it not been for that one cell, it would have been a non-event.

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Even with that tornado it still didn't verify in La. Should have been a level 3, this one too. The difference between level 3 and level 4 may not sound like much but it's really huge in what gets activated at the state/local government levels. With dual pol radar a lot of weak QLCS tornadoes are identified that used to be considered wind damage.

Up until about 5 years ago they had these squall line events as a level 2 with a 5% tornado risk like clockwork and nobody though much of it other than it's going to be thunderstorms and windy.