STATUS: 30 April 2016 Update #1

STATUS: Operations in progress

We are expecting a convective system now in MS to move into AL early this afternoon.  The flow through the lower troposphere is stronger today than yesterday.  The low-level airmass is very inhomogeneous after yesterday’s storms, so it’s hard to anticipate where CAPE will be largest.  The highest dewpoints are to our SW in MS, and with the southwest flow, some of this air should move northward ahead of the incoming convection.

We are setting up one dual-Doppler baseline between ARMOR and Courtland, AL.  Later, we hope to add another mobile Doppler into the mix with a shorter baseline.  Disdrometer and sticknet deployment teams are heading west toward Florence/Muscle Shoals/Tuscumbia.  If interesting storms are targetable west of them, they will deploy.  Otherwise they will wait to deploy their sensors in the Dual-Doppler lobes.

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