Thunder and stuff...

We are on the southern edge of a slight risk today. Long west to east orientation going on here which I figure will result in training of the storms and good rainfall coverage. We need the rain very badly. Areas of my yard outside or dead or dying due to the dry weather. This also means T-boomers and lightning. But due to the heavy rain it will be near impossible to shoot any lighting. I just come off a 24 hour EMS shift and while the call volume wasn't high I didn't sleep but about 3 hours and well, its caught up with me now...Here is what the SPC is saying so far today concerning the weather threat..

 ...GULF STATES...
  A VERY MOIST AIR MASS STRADDLES THE E/W SURFACE BOUNDARIES NRN GULF
  STATES WITH PW/S TO NEAR 2 INCHES.  WHILE MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES ARE
  UNIMPRESSIVE...STRONG HEATING OF WARM SECTOR GIVEN THE HIGH MOISTURE
  WILL GENERATE A VERY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT WITH MLCAPES AOA 2500
  J/KG. BY EARLY AFTERNOON SURFACE BASED THUNDERSTORMS WILL RAPIDLY
  DEVELOP ALONG AND S OF NEARLY STALLED BOUNDARIES FROM NRN GA WWD TO
  SRN AR.  DAMAGING WET DOWNBURSTS ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE
  PRIMARY THREAT AS STORMS INCREASE IN NUMBER AND INTENSITY THRU THE
  AFTERNOON.  ALTHOUGH SHEAR IS ONLY MINIMALLY SUPPORTIVE OF ORGANIZED
  STORMS...THERE APPEARS TO BE ENOUGH MID LEVEL FLOW OF 30KT OR SO
  COUPLED WITH COLD POOL DEVELOPMENT FOR A LITTLE HIGHER POTENTIAL OF
  LINE SEGMENTS DEVELOPING FROM ERN MS INTO WRN GA AND ACCORDINGLY
  GREATER WIND DAMAGE CONCERN.

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Friend sent me this video today. Its a video from the dash camera of a locomotive that encounters a tornado! Not sure how recent it is or how much its been seen on the web, but its new to me and I thought I would share..