Stronger Storms Already Firing Up In Northeast Alabama

We are starting to see some stronger storms fire up along the stationary front in the northern parts of the area. NWS Huntsville has just issued a Significant Weather Advisory for southeastern Dekalb County until 9:45 am. The strong storm was located west of Centre and was moving to the northeast at 25 MPH. Winds up to and exceeding 40 MPH and small hail will be possible.

Instability has already increased with CAPE values at 500-1,500 J/kg across much of the area, with a small pocket above 2,000 J/kg over the eastern parts of the area.

Elsewhere, there are other scattered showers and storms out there, but none of those are strong at this point. We have a large mass of rain and embedded thunder over the extreme southern portions of Central Alabama and down into South Alabama, but none of this activity is strong at this point as well.

As instability builds with the heating of the day, expect more convected showers and thunderstorms to form with the potential of a few of them to become strong to marginally severe. There is relatively no shear in place over North/Central Alabama, so we are not looking at a tornado threat at this point. The threat throughout the day is not zero, so we’ll still have to stay weather aware. Main threats will be from damaging wind gusts up to 60 MPH and hail up to quarter-size in diameter.

We’ve got you covered throughout the weekend. We’ll have updates throughout the entire day today and throughout tomorrow until the severe threat has passed.

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