and AL is a secondary Tornado alley. 'DIxie Alley'. people don't get too worried about it even though the area is regularly hit with EF 3, 4 and sometime 5's

Many people think that nothing is going to happen to them, that it happens to other people but not them so no matter what’s happening around them they just continue with their life. All my years working at a golf course when we would have a thunderstorm roll right overhead us workers would head for shelter…But the golfers would just keep golfing like nothing is happening.

Sounds about right for Alabama. Can't let a tornado come between you and those waffles.

12z Euro is south. Almost to far south

Inside 200 hrs now even for us on the east end. See my post in the Jan thread for my best 3 analog storms of memory. Iirc, 2 out of 3 treated Macomb favorably. I'm going to check on that to be certain. From this range, and watching models progress other larger southern stream storms from this range out, this seems to have cross-hairs on a classic Chicago and across the heart of SMI snowstorm swath.