A Midday Check On Our Weather Situation

We are continuing to have showers and a few embedded thunderstorms over the northwestern parts of North/Central Alabama as we have reached the midday hour, along with some scattered activity well south of the I-20 corridor. All of the activity is pushing off to the northeast at just under 50 MPH. Temperatures are in the upper 50s to the lower 80s across the area. Troy is at 82 degrees while Haleyville was at 57 degrees. Birmingham was at 70 degrees.

The main action is back to our west over Texas and Louisiana where there are several severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings currently in effect. One particular cell has apparently spawned a tornado that struck the town of Franklin, Texas that has caused some damage and at least one injury. The bad news is that it will only get more active throughout the day across much of eastern Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and into Mississippi.

No change in the thinking for our severe weather threat for late tonight and into the overnight and morning hours on Sunday. We are still expecting a line of supercellular thunderstorms to begin to move into the western parts of Alabama right around the midnight hour and progress eastward throughout the area before moving off completely into Georgia by noon on Sunday.

For today (through 7:00 am Sunday), SPC continues an Enhanced Risk is up for locations west of a line from Sulligent to Gordo to Eutaw. A Slight Risk extends out from that to as far east as Fort Payne to Alexander City to Troy. A Marginal Risk is up as far east as Roanoke to Opelika to Blue Springs.

For Sunday (from Sunday 7:00 am to Monday 7:00 am), SPC has an Enhanced Risk up for locations east of a line from Hytop to Rainbow City to Talladega. A Slight Risk is up for locations east of a line from Florence to West Blocton to Orrville. A Marginal Risk is up for nearly the rest of the area except for locations west of a line from Macedonia to Myrtlewood.

The main threats throughout the entire event will be from tornadoes and damaging winds up to and in excess of 60 MPH. We do have the possibility for stronger long-track tornadoes (EF2 and above) across all of Central Alabama, but at this point, the higher probability of those will be west of the I-65 corridor. There is a smaller threat of large hail up to one-inch in diameter across the area as well.

We’ll continue to have updates throughout the event on the blog. Remember, any warnings that are issued are instantly posted to the blog. Stay weather aware.

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