User blog comment:Hurricane Layten/And the first High Risk since September 2014 has been issued/@comment-26014793-20170122162744

Holy crap. Well, the SPC did see this coming but it's still both impressive and really worrying to see the first ever High Risk under the 6-level system. The fact that the SPC's mentioning long-track tornadoes also worries me...I agree with Layten that we'll probably see tornado emergencies and probably at least a few fatalities, unfortunately. I'd say this event will probably serve up several EF3+ tornadoes and one or two violent tornadoes seem very possible.

Also, a bit of an interesting story. Like I said yesterday, my grandmother lives in Atlanta from November to March then moves back to Toronto in April...since she only started doing this in 2015 she doesn't have a lot of experience with severe weather. I actually called her this morning and told her to read the SPC PWO and listen to the news. At first she was saying "you're crazy Scott, there are no tornadoes in January", then when I finally got her to turn on the Weather Channel and sent her the link to the PWO on Facebook she started paying really close attention.

Anyway, to anyone here in Dixie Alley or the Atlantic Coast, stay safe and good luck!