Alabama thread!

What else are you getting

 

Morning Bama! Damn all this rain!

 

Mornin fellas

 

Herro

 

Sup Phil, sup Ty!

 

Sup Ty

Sup Jonny

 

Morning yea it’s off and on pretty hard here

 

Sup Caleb

 

What’s up, just thinking about getting the day started... also thinking about burning a day decisions lol

 

Sup Caleb! Yeah, so freakin' tired of the rain. Well, I'll be rebuilding a 30 year old craftsman 3.5T floor jack today with new seals, handle spring and fresh fluid. Weird, but I'm kinda excited to get out in the garage and do this project! lol

 

From AlabamaWX

STORMY START: A tornado watch is in effect until 11a CT for parts of Central Alabama… A cluster of storms with embedded supercells and bowing segments will move eastward across central Alabama through the morning. The threat for damaging gusts and a couple of tornadoes will increase some as it warms and moistens at the surface through the morning. The watch runs in a broad zone from Demopolis to Selma to Montgomery to Opelika… it does not include Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Anniston, or Gadsden…



This is a long a boundary between rain cooled air to the north, and warm, unstable air to the south. Otherwise, rain is likely this morning over much of the state as a surface front approaches. A slot of drier air in the mid levels will work in here by midday, and most of the afternoon will be dry and mild with only isolated showers. Temperatures will reach the low 70s this afternoon.

TOMORROW: The surface front will move down to near the Gulf Coast tonight, and a wave of low pressure forms on the front west of Alabama. This will spread widespread rain into the state, and the rain could be heavy at times. The air will be cool and stable over North/Central Alabama, and the severe weather threat will be limited to the southern quarter of the state, where SPC maintains a “slight risk” (level 2/5) of severe thunderstorms.



A few storms over South Alabama could produce hail, strong winds, and a tornado or two. For the northern half of the state, flooding is the threat tomorrow with periods of heavy rain.

THURSDAY: Rain continues during the morning, but will end from west to east during the day as drier air works into the state. The high Thursday will be in the upper 50s. We should mention additional rain amounts of 1-3″ are likely between now and Thursday morning, with isolated heavier amounts.

FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: The weather will be dry on these three days. Sunny days, clear nights. The high Friday and Saturday will be near 60, and then we rise into the mid to upper 60s Sunday. A very nice weekend.

NEXT WEEK: Rain returns early in the week… most likely Monday night into Tuesday. The latter half of the week for now is looking dry and mild with highs mostly in the 60s.

ON THIS DATE ONE YEAR AGO: A strong late-winter/early-spring storm system moved through the southeastern United States. As the conditions deteriorated, dozens of tornadoes touched down across East Alabama, the panhandle of Florida, and western Georgia causing widespread damage. The deadliest was an EF-4 in Lee County between the towns of Beauregard and Smiths Station, south of Auburn and Opelika. The twister touched down around 2 p.m., and stayed on the ground for 26 miles. It leveled homes and buildings in its path, killing 23 people in the town of Beauregard. It was the deadliest tornado since 2013, and the first EF-4 tornado in the United States in almost two years. Most of those that died were in mobile homes.

At 2:03 pm Central Time there will be a moment of silence to remember

 

Nashville unfortunately got hit hard last night. Seeing reports of 9 deaths so far from a large tornado overnight.

 

getting the main beam level was a process for sure, especially since my truck has to be half in my garage sitting at a steeper angle than normal.

I was dealing with flex issues in the bumper and added bracing to it 3 different times trying to strengthen it. The design of the standard bumper I have is just not strong (braced) enough to make me happy with a swingout. I ended up bracing it internally a good bit and now the bumper / swingout have zero flex.

that being said, the frame flexes when a good deal of force is applied to the swingout when it’s open so boxing the frame is next on the list. There is no real reason that I will ever have that much weight on the Swingout when it’s open, but I like to overbuild everything. Once the frame is boxed, you will be able to sit on the swingout table and it won’t move.

 

He made it up the hill though! Coming down was just a little sketchy with a wider truck. Thus the giant dent in his door...

 

The severe weather threat for Tornado Watch 38 continues.

SUMMARY…A cluster of storms may continue to pose a tornado or damaging wind threat over the next several hours from central Alabama into west-central Georgia.

DISCUSSION…A slow-developing, but long-lived cluster of storms continues to sporadically pose a tornado risk over central Alabama this morning. These storms formed in association with warm/moist advection, and persist with the aid of substantial deep-layer wind shear and sufficient instability. 12Z soundings from the region suggest MLCAPE on the order of 500 J/kg. Objective analysis further indicates that instability decreases south of the area as temperatures aloft are warmer. However, pockets of heating may eventually develop later this morning and aid destabilization. Effective SRH over 200 m2/s2 is also forecast to remain for much of the day. As such, a brief tornado or damaging wind gusts remain possible within this east-west corridor

 

Where is Chris? Did he just lose interest in his truck?

 

This has EXPIRED but definitely a tornado between Maplesville and Brent earlier. Note the amount of rain. You'd never see it with that much rain falling at the time. Can really see it in the velocity scan though, lower left, the red and green close together shows the rotation. Red indicates rapid movement away from radar location, green indicated rapid movement towards radar location.
Upper Right, Correlation Coefficient indicated likely debris being thrown up and the radar is picking it up. (Debris Ball)

 

Seems like it! He hasn’t wheeled it since he got his front bumper and HC rear on.

he is just Chris-ing around.

 

Yes, I was worried that I was not going to be able to get through the big boulders without damage too. That night it didn't look too bad but in the day you can see everything and it worried me a lot more. I was for sure glad I had a narrower truck.

 

I know its a lot of work, looks like you did a really good job.