Heat Advisories Through Tomorrow Evening for Central Alabama
The Weather Service in Birmingham has extended the heat advisory in time and area, making it effective through Monday evening for their counties in Central Alabama.
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The Weather Service in Birmingham has extended the heat advisory in time and area, making it effective through Monday evening for their counties in Central Alabama.
Beryl is still at 65 mph but is expected to become a hurricane by this evening as it moves toward a landfall on the Middle Texas Coast early Monday.
Alabama will only realize a few paltry showers and storms from the indirect effects of Beryl to our west. In fact, Beryl will eliminate rain chances for us Wednesday through Friday.
Hurricane Hunters will be in Tropical Storm Beryl shortly investigating whether the storm is becoming better organized as satellite data seems to indicate. It is forecast to become a hurricane tomorrow night before making landfall Monday on the Middle Texas Coast.
Tropical Storm Beryl is getting better organized in the Gulf and will impact the Texas Gulf Coast with tropical storm force winds starting Sunday evening, with hurricane force winds moving onshore near the center on Monday morning, likely in the Middle Texas Coast area between Rockport and Port Lavaca and Palacios. Surge of 3-5′ will affect a large area. Tornadoes and heavy rain will be a threat as welll.
The models have come into pretty good agreement on a landfall on the Texas Coast between Corpus Christi and Freeport Monday.
At 1224 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Panola, or 18 miles southwest of Aliceville, moving east at 20 mph.
Hurricane Beryl will directly impact Jamaica starting early tomorrow morning.
Beryl appears to have peaked in intensity this morning. It remains a dangerous category five hurricane with top winds of 160 mph, down from its peak of 165. It will deal glancing blow to Hispaniola and then may directly hit Jamaica.
Beryl continues to strengthen tonight. Top winds are 160, making it a dangerous category 5 hurricane.
At 7 p.m., the Hurricane Center raised the max winds to 155 mph and the pressure down to 938 mb, just 2 mph from category five status.
On the forecast track, the center of Beryl will move across the southeastern and central Caribbean Sea tonight through Wednesday.
Their sustained winds are 92 mph gusting to 121 mph.
The island of Carriacou was in the 18 mile wide eye for several minutes. It just went through the brunt of the eastern eyewall where winds were probably sustained at 130-135 mph with gusts to 160 mph.