Alabama Weather Update at 3 p.m.

UPDATE AT 435PM
The NWS Birmingham is concerned about tonight’s storms producing damaging winds, hail, and even a tornado tonight between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m. There is a conditional chance that any strong updrafts that do form could produce any mode of severe weather including a tornado. But the HRRR model is not depicting strong updraft tracks. Check the weather late this evening. Scott Martin will be monitoring the weather and posting overnight. We will have a post around 10 p.m. before bedtime. Keep your weather alert sources activated and close at hand overnight.

ORIGINAL POST
It’s a warm, mostly sunny to partly cloudy afternoon over Alabama:

Active weather across the Ohio Valley with a severe thunderstorm and a tornado watch.

The SPC is upgrading the Day One in about 15 minutes to include a Moderate Risk. They are concerned about strong tornadoes in southeastern Missouri, possibly transitioning to a big high wind threat into northern Arkansas, northwestern Tennessee, southern Illinois, and western Kentucky.

HRRR predicts that storms will reach Northwest Alabama around 2:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, after midnight tonight.

They reach the I-59 Corridor just before 6 a.m., but don’t look strong.

More storms develop across the southern half of Alabama by mid-afternoon, but the coverage looks low. The SPC does have a slight risk (2/5) for southeastern and southeastern Alabama for tomorrow. I think the I-20 Corridor is dry except for some showers in the morning.

Then, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday look dry and warm.

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