Moderate rain and some thunder continue across Central Alabama this morning with severe storms moving through the Tennessee Valley. Additional storms with a potential for producing severe weather are possible later this afternoon and evening across Central Alabama.
NWS Survey Team confirms that the damage in Cullman County near West Point around 6:20 p.m. yesterday was from a tornado.
Strong thunderstorms are moving through the Birmingham Metro area right now and are entering Bibb and Shelby Counties now and will be entering Talladega County shortly.
The severe thunderstorm over northwestern Jefferson County is moving southeastward now into the Birmingham area.
Ongoing storms across Central Alabama are causing very heavy rain and lots of lightning. They could produce damaging winds as well. Additional storms crossing the Mississippi River will be here this afternoon and they will likely produce damaging winds as well.
Another round of stormy weather for Central and North Alabama today with the potential for damaging wind once again. Highs will be in the upper 80s. Rain chances drop for Sunday with only isolated storms forecast, but highs will climb into the lower 90s.
Radar check at 6:57 PM continues to show several severe thunderstorm out there across portions of North and Central Alabama, and as I type, parts of Lee and Russell counties just went under a severe thunderstorm warning.
The storm in northern Tuscaloosa County is showing some decent rotation on radar and may have to watch it to see if NWS Birmingham may issue a warning for it. It is headed towards Bankhead Lock And Dam, Wiley, and Windham Springs… Then it will move into western Jefferson County.
Radar check at 10:45 AM shows that all of Central Alabama is virtually dry at this point, but a batch of showers and thunderstorms will be moving into the western parts of Franklin, Marion, and Lamar counties within the next 30-60 minutes.
Stormy weather is likely today with the potential for damaging wind from some of the thunderstorms. Highs will climb into the upper 80s. Storms diminish somewhat on Saturday and really drop off for Sunday as highs climb back into the lower 90s.
A cluster of strong storms continue to march east-southeastward across North Alabama as we have reached 9:15 PM.
A batch of strong to severe thunderstorms are starting to enter the northwest corner of Lauderdale County in northwest Alabama, with the lead storm having a severe thunderstorm warning issued on it until 7:30 PM for damaging wind gusts up to 70 MPH.
Radar check at 3:50 PM continue to show showers and thunderstorms moving across Central Alabama with the strongest storm located over the eastern parts of Macon County down in the southeastern parts of the area.
This update from the Storm Prediction Center was released right after I completed and posted my midday report on the blog. So here is the latest forecast update for the rest of today and tonight with the new information.
After having a good bit of shower and storm activity move across the northern portions of the state this morning, things have quieted down some. We do have a large batch of showers moving into the western parts of the area from Mississippi, along with several scattered showers over the southern half of Central Alabama.
