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Heading Through the Night

| April 3, 2014 @ 8:16 pm

The SPC has just issued their latest day one convective outlook for this evening which cover us through the overnight hours.Thankfully the SPC has discontinued the moderate risk they had issued. The slight risk for much of northwestern Alabama has been trimmed back to only include the extreme northwestern corner of the state, affecting portions of Marion, Franklin, Colbert, and Lauderdale Counties. The slight risk for severe weather is valid until 7 AM Friday morning. The overall thinking has not changed much as the worst of the weather arrives in Alabama well after midnight.

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We are seeing quite a few severe storms to our west and they are moving towards the east. There have been several tornado warnings from the St. Louis area to down towards the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Additional showers and storms will continue to develop as we head through the overnight hours. All the individual storms will merge into a a line of storms overnight, and this line is what will impact Alabama.

For Alabama, with the slower movement of the storms, most of tonight will be fine. A line of strong and potentially severe storms will be approaching the western portions of the state around 4 or 5 AM, if not later. That means locations in Central Alabama could see quite a rough commute. Tomorrow it would be wise to wake-up a few minutes early to check the weather and road conditions before heading out the door.

The storms are expected to be weakening as they enter the state, but we will still likely see some severe storms in Alabama, especially towards the Tennessee Valley. The main threat for Alabama has been and continues to be damaging straight-line winds along the line of storms. We will be watching this line carefully as large hail and a few brief spin-up tornadoes could occur.

We will be here all night monitoring the situation and will keep you updated and informed when the storms begin to impact the state.

Category: Alabama's Weather, Severe Weather

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