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Great account from someone with experience. Thank you for providing 30 years (That's a lot) of historical perspective. As you noted I hope that at a minimum lessons are learned by those of us who were not there but may someday face a similar weather onslaught. Be safe this week everyone.

That is an outstanding write up. Thank you for taking the time to provide real world assessment filled with facts and local knowledge. Again, condolences to all who knew someone who was adversely affected by the events of Saturday on Mobile Bay.

Third victim identified. Search continues for fourth body. DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) - Authorities on Wednesday identified the third person killed when a powerful storm struck a sailboat race off the Alabama coast and said they will search one more day for three boaters who remained missing...

I don't want to Monday morning armchair quarterback people who go to sea in smaller craft but I sailed a NACRA 5.8 catamaran (19ft) a lot way back in 1984-1992 both single and double handed. I NEVER left the harbor without my VHF on the front left of my PFD and my Mini B Epirb on the back left...

Max- The description matches overhead development of a severe thunderstorm but I submit that is to be expected given the forecast and the cold air mixing with relatively very warm Gulf waters over Mobile Bay. I am not saying novice sailors would have recognized these signs but the NWS watches...

Again I want to issue sincere condolences to all who lost a loved one and to all of those who were put through challenging conditions where their lives were likely in jeopardy. A harrowing experience at best. In an effort to best understand the developing and forecast atmospherics for Mobile...

If you doubt the potency of Gulf Coast thunderstorms...This was earlier this morning. Train blown off elevated tracks: ABC13 New Orleans at 10:30 this morning. Holy $hit http://abc13.com/news/video-storm-blows-train-off-elevated-tracks-in-new-orleans/683899/

Weather is a major piece of getting one's pilot's license here in the states. It should be an important part of any skipper's float plan as well.

Please do not use "acceptable meteorological term" and "Jim Cantore" in the same sentence. Thank you.

I don't think he would take kindly to that in the middle of "Hunkering her down". ;-)

When I am doing micro-climate forecasting for clients and things are going south, I use a myriad of tools on multiple screens to get a sense of what is on the way. Upstream real time Wx Observations, Visible weather satellite loops, IR loops, NEXRAD composite and base reflexivity as well as...

This one is FO* REAL. Video from yesterday on the water. Gets ugly at about 2:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJF7i5z9lQ4

Props to you Puffy and your team yesterday for making a difference when you could have chosen to head to safe harbor. It sucks getting caught out there but it sucks more when fellow sailors go right by someone in the water and either don't hear their calls for help or ignore them. Great job...

First of all condolences to the families and friends of anyone who remains missing and to the those who have lost a loved one. Terrible news indeed from Mobile Bay, AL. It strikes me that the sailors interviewed noted that it "Came out of nowhere" and that "We didn't even have time to put a...