MILD DAYS, COOL NIGHTS: Alabama’s weather will be rain-free through Friday with partly to mostly sunny mild days and fair cool nights. Highs will be mostly in the mid to upper 70s, but a few spots will reach the low 80s today and then again on Friday.
RADAR CHECK: Rain is confined to the far southern part of Alabama this afternoon; the sky has cleared over the northern counties. Rain over South Alabama ends this evening, and the sky becomes mostly fair statewide late tonight.
Most of the rain has ended across the northern half of Alabama, and through the afternoon hours, the sky will clear from northwest to southeast. Areas of rain continue across South Alabama, but this will come to an through the evening hours.
RADAR CHECK: Rain is widespread across Alabama early this morning along and south of I-59; there are few heavier storms over the southern counties, but they are well below severe limits. We note SPC (NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center) maintains a low end “marginal risk” of severe thunderstorms for far South Alabama and along the Gulf Coast today… a few storms there could produce small hail and gusty winds.
Some thunderstorms with heavy rain continue across parts of Central and North Central Alabama late tonight but the severe weather threat has greatly diminished.
Here’s another look at our current radar along with an outlook for the rest of the night.
Strong to severe storms continue over portions of west central Alabama tonight
Southern Cullman county now included in a severe thunderstorm warning, mainly for large hail.
A severe thunderstorm will move into southern Marion and Northern Fayette counties with large hail and damaging wind gusts
Large hail likely to continue eastward into Walker and Winston Counties
A new severe thunderstorm warning for Lamar county has been issued for large hail and damaging winds.
2 additional severe thunderstorm warnings have been issued until 9:30 and 9:45pm for large and possible damaging hail.
A new severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for portions of Lawrence and Morgan counties.
Another severe storm is moving through portions of NW Alabama through 8:45pm
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