1.   High level winds from the south will draw clouds and rain into the central Gulf Coast.

2.   High level winds will direct some of the tallest storms toward the south and into the middle Mississippi Valley.

3.   High level winds will direct these dissipating storms southward into the middle Mississippi Valley.

4.   High level winds from the northwest will rapidly direct the storms into Mississippi and southern Alabama.

5.   High level winds from the Southwest allowed mild, moist air to rise over the chilly air, producing clouds of almost every variety.

6.   However, tropical air mass under light-upper level winds enabled the system to maintain its tropical characteristics.

7.   In other words, the high level winds across Florida were from the north, a direction not normally associated with record heat.

8.   In other cases, the high level winds can be stronger, but their direction changes little over time.

9.   Increasing high level winds from southeast will draw moisture into the Southwestern states resulting in scattered strong thunderstorms from the deserts of southern California into Arizona and Utah.

10.   Low level winds had risen above gale force, but the cloud and precipitation pattern showed a lopsided low pressure system.