A Brief Update On North/Central Alabama’s Weather

RADAR CHECK AT 8:50 AM
The squall line is pushing off to the east at the moment, with the leading edge stretching from Ranburne to Talladega Springs to Calera and ending just north of Brent. Then another section of the squall line is located from Billingsley to Orrville and continuing down into Southwestern Alabama.

The good news is that there has not been any severe weather in Central Alabama so far this morning, but we are not out of the woods yet. There are several Flash Flood Warnings in effect throughout North/Central Alabama…

• Parts of Lawrence, Madison, Marshall, and Morgan Counties until 10:15 AM

• Parts of Jefferson County until 11:00 AM

• Parts of Etowah County until 11:00 AM

• Parts of Dekalb County until 12:15 PM

A Flash Flood Watch continues in effect for North Alabama until 12:00 PM, but counties should begin being dropped from the watch as the main rain band moves eastward out of parts of the area.

Once the backside of the squall line passes your location, the severe weather threat for you will have ended. At this point, locations north of the I-20 corridor and west of I-65 are out of the severe weather threat.

For those out ahead of the squall line, there is still a very small threat of damaging thunderstorm wind gusts and an even smaller threat of a brief spin-up tornado. That threat will continue from now until about 3:00 PM, but with the speed of the squall line, I wouldn’t be surprised if that threat diminishes well before that (12:00 PM-1:00 PM).

Behind the squall line, a few scattered showers may develop with the heating of the day as the surface low eventually moves through the northern parts of the state. All of the dynamic support will be well ahead of these showers, and there will be no threat of severe storms.

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