Moderate Risk for SE Radar Hole
It's time to think thunderstorms again this week, folks. An unusually late Moderate Risk of Severe Thunderstorms has been issued by The SPC [JessePedia], and they are "forecasting the development of a few strong tornadoes over parts of the Lower Mississippi Valley tonight through early Wednesday."
Severe Weather Expert Henry Margusity (PREMIUM | PRO)
It's uncanny how close the Moderate Risk area corresponds to what I refer to as the "Radar Hole" in the Southeast (like the one in Missouri).
Doppler radars see out to over 250 miles of course, so no area in this "hole" is without coverage, but the coverage map confirms that there is a large area only covered by one site. The storm-detection algorithms only function out to 150 nautical miles, and at that distance the radar beam is 15,000 feet above the surface of the Earth (WeatherMatrix). What this means, for the weather enthusiast observing these storms today, is that you'll be hard pressed to see some of the activity, so I'll start you out with our State Radars (which take all radar sites into account).
RADARS TO WATCH (Click To Zoom):
Arkansas Radar (PREMIUM & PRO) | Mississippi Radar (PREMIUM | PRO)
StormMatrix Stats Box:
U.S. Advisories (PREMIUM | PRO)
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