An Alabama Weather Update at 5:15 a.m.

The NWS in Birmingham is choosing to go with significant weather alerts to cover the storms moving into Dallas and Perry Counties. They had a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings on the same storms, but there haven’t been any wind reports from them since they were over eastern Mississippi.

The warning for parts of Greene, Hale and Marengo Counties expired at 515 a.m.

Our line of storms continues now from south of Tuscaloosa to near Butler in Choctaw County to near Hattiesburg in southeastern Mississippi to Picayune and on to New Orleans.

Over Alabama, the storms are weaker with the strongest storms to the southwest in Mississippi and Louisiana. These storms will affect mainly South into South Central Alabama.

A severe thunderstorm watch continues for a large part of South Central Alabama until 11 a.m. A tornado watch is in effect until 9 a.m. for Southwest Alabama.

The threat for severe weather today in Alabama is mainly south of a line from Jackson AL to Montgomery to Five Points in Chambers County. There marks the northern extent of the Enhanced Risk area as issued by the SPC. There is Slight Risk area for areas as far north as a line from Butler to Columbiana to Jacksonville. Moderate to occasionally heavy rain with some embedded thunder now covers much of Alabama north of I-59.

Rainfall amounts have been heavy over West Alabama with widespread 2-3 inch amounts from Marion County down into Sumter and Greene Counties. But no reports of flooding yet like in Mississippi and Louisiana.

The severe weather threat for Wednesday is still a little muddled. But all modes of severe weather, including hail, high winds and tornadoes are still on the table. Let’s finish out this event before we focus on that one, but keep it in the back of your mind that we may be dealing with severe weather Wednesday.

Category: Alabama's Weather, ALL POSTS