At 1147 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located 10 miles northwest of Underwood-Petersville, or 15 miles northwest of Florence, moving east at 75 mph. HAZARD…Tornado. SOURCE…Radar indicated rotation. IMPACT…Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows, […]
At 1149 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located 8 miles northeast of Cherokee, or 13 miles northwest of Sheffield, moving east at 50 mph. HAZARD…Tornado. SOURCE…Radar indicated rotation. IMPACT…Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows, […]
Counties included in this wind advisory include: Marion, Lamar, Fayette, Winston, Walker, Blount, Etowah, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair, Talladega, Clay, Randolph, Sumter, Greene, Hale, Perry, Bibb, Chilton, Coosa, Tallapoosa, Chambers, Marengo. A strong cold front will move through Central Alabama late tonight and into Sunday morning. Southerly winds ahead of […]
A pair of tornado warnings have been issued up in the northwest corner of the state. The first for northwestern Lauderdale County for a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado over J.P. Coleman State Park. This storm is moving to the east at 60 MPH. The second tornado warning is for northwestern Colbert and […]
The cold front is getting closer to the area, and it appears that the line of storms have pushed back ahead of the front. A tornado watch continues in effect for the northwest corner of Alabama, portions of south and central Kentucky, west and central Tennessee, extreme northwestern Mississippi, and eastern Arkansas until 3:00 AM […]
Trained spotters reported a tornado on the ground at 930 p.m. east of Barr in Tate County MS. That tornado is now just east of the city of Holly Springs. It is crossing into Benton County. It will pass near or just south of Ashland. If you remember, an EF4 tornado was on the ground […]
Comedian Flip Wilson famously said, “Here comes da Judge!” I am reminded of that saying as I watch the cold front charging across the landscape tonight. The cold front reached Memphis tonight between 7 and 8 p.m. The temperature dropped 18F in just a few minutes and winds gusted to 46 mph. The temperature fell […]
The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Tornado Watch until XXX AM CST for these counties in North Alabama: Lauderdale, Limestone, Colbert, Franklin, and Lawrence The watch also includes portions of southeastern Arkansas, northeastern Louisiana, west-central and northern Mississippi, and southwestern and middle Tennessee. A band of strong to locally severe storms near an intense […]
Almost everyone in Central Alabama at this time is up in the 70s, with dewpoints in the mid to upper 60s. The exception is in the northeastern corner of the area (east of I-65 and north of I-20) where temperatures are still in the mid to upper 60s. Shower activity is pretty much nonexistent in […]
Currently across Central Alabama, only a few light showers are even showing up on radar. There are a few showers just south of Haleyville up in western Winston County, and a few more in southern Dallas County. Temperatures are mostly in the 70s with dewpoints in the mid 60s across the area at this point, […]
Moisture continues to flow in from the south into the area at this time well ahead of the approaching cold front, which has now progressed into central Arkansas through the southeastern tip of Oklahoma, and back into north Texas. Showers and thunderstorms have developed in front of the cold front and the low moving into […]
Effective from 145 PM until 900 PM CST and includes portions of eastern Arkansas, northern Mississippi, West and Central Tennessee and Kentucky, and extreme SE Missouri. Primary threats include…A few tornadoes likely with a couple intense tornadoes possible, scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely, isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter […]
Our temperatures are warming today as southerly winds are increasing and our flow off the Gulf of Mexico is allowing our moisture levels to increase. That will play into the forecast later tonight. For now and into the evening hours, our weather remains rather quiet and we are not expecting much action during the daylight […]
Moisture levels are really starting to increase from the southeast to the northwest at this time. We will soon see temperatures start to warm up across Central Alabama. A few showers are falling at this time over in the eastern part of Central Alabama at this time, mainly in Coosa, Tallapoosa, Clay, Randolph, and Cleburne […]
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