MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0401
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   0437 PM CDT FRI MAR 14 2008
   
   AREAS AFFECTED...PARTS OF ERN AL/ERN TN INTO WRN/CENTRAL GA
   
   CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH POSSIBLE 
   
   VALID 142137Z - 142200Z
   
   WW MAY BECOME NECESSARY FOR PARTS OF ERN TN/ERN AL INTO WRN/CENTRAL
   GA.
   
   ASCENT ATTENDANT TO UPPER TN VALLEY SHORT WAVE TROUGH AND VORTICITY
   LOBE EXTENDING SWD THROUGH ERN AL/WRN GA WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT
   TSTM DEVELOPMENT FROM ERN TN/ERN AL INTO GA DURING THE LATE
   AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.  SWLY LOW LEVEL FLOW FROM SRN AL INTO
   CENTRAL GA HAS AIDED IN MOISTURE INFLUX INTO THIS REGION...WHILE
   PLUME OF STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES SPREADS EWD WITHIN STRONG
   /50-60 KT/ WLY FLOW ALOFT...AND ATOP MOISTURE RETURN.  THESE WIND
   FIELDS ARE SUPPORTING DEEP LAYER SHEAR AROUND 50 KT.  THIS COMBINED
   WITH MARGINAL INSTABILITY SUGGESTS A FEW STRONGER CORES WILL POSE A
   POTENTIAL FOR ORGANIZATION AND A THREAT FOR HAIL AND STRONG WIND
   GUSTS.  ALTHOUGH TSTM COVERAGE IS SOMEWHAT LOW AT THIS POINT...
   FURTHER DESTABILIZATION INTO THE EVENING MAY SUPPORT GREATER TSTM
   DEVELOPMENT.
   
   ..PETERS.. 03/14/2008
   
   
   ATTN...WFO...MRX...FFC...TAE...OHX...BMX...HUN...
   
   36028493 34898481 34158503 33318481 32818368 31868322
   31268374 31198510 31578588 32848627 33568667 34568644
   35718563