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Midnight Look at the Alabama Weather Situation

| April 4, 2014 @ 12:03 am

Everything is quiet across Central and North Alabama this evening. Skies are partly to mostly cloudy with temperatures still in the lower 70s with a few upper 60s over eastern Alabama. Dewpoints are mostly in the 50s still, with some lower 60s over southwestern sections. Tuscaloosa’s dewopint was up to 60F in Tuscaloosa. A steady southerly wind is blowing at about 10 mph.

The surface low tonight is passing northeast of Kansas City. It is not impressively strong (about 1002 mb) and is pretty far away. That’s good for us.

Everything is still well west of the Mississippi River. The closest storm to western Alabama right now is 220 miles west northwest of Pickens County, over southeastern Arkansas. That storm is not severe at this time.

The main line is still back over eastern Texas into southwestern Araknsas. The NWS Shreveport has just issued a severe thunderstorm warning for several counties in southwestern Arkansas and northern Louisiana north of Shreveport. Here is the radar with warnings displayed.

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A new tornado watch is coming shortly for southern Arkansas, northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee. It will include Memphis, Greenville and Oxford.

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No tornado warnings are in effect nationally now.

There could be strong to severe storms overnight as the storms get into western and northwestern Alabama. The line should be weakening as it pushes into the I-59 corridor, but we will monitor them all through the night.

Here is a loop of the 4 km NAM showing the storms getting into northwestern Alabama between 4:30-5:30 a.m. with the main activity reaching western Alabama around 6:30 a.m. and then the I-59 corridor around 10 a.m.

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The model shows additional development ahead of the slow moving cold front during the afternoon. The airmass will still be relatively unstable during the afternoon and some of the storms could be strong to severe. Hail and damaging winds will be possible.

The new SPC Day One Severe Weather Outlook will be out within the hour and we will post it here as soon as it is received.

Category: Alabama's Weather, Headlines, Severe Weather

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