We continue to have rain and thunderstorms with heavy downpours across the eastern, southeastern, and southern parts of Central Alabama as we have crossed over into the early afternoon hours on this gray and damp Friday.
At 11:10 am, an outer band from the remnants of Barry is working its way through the extreme western parts of North/Central Alabama, while pretty much the rest of the area is rain free with partly cloudy to mostly clear skies.
Conditions are becoming marginally favorable for a brief spin-up tornado or damaging wind gust over extreme West Alabama this afternoon.
As of 7:55 pm, coverage of the tropical showers and storms continue to diminish as we are losing the heating of the day and the sun has set.
A collection of peak wind gusts from across parts of Louisiana throughout the day from now Tropical Storm Barry.
Another update from the National Hurricane Center will be coming out right around 7:00 pm this evening that will give up a good update on what is going on with Tropical Storm Barry.
Hurricane Barry’s mid-level center of circulation is now onshore over the extreme southern parts of Louisiana south of Lafayette with maximum sustained winds of 75 MPH and gusts up to 90 MPH possible.
Barry continues to be a strong tropical storm on this late Friday night with maximum sustained winds at 65 MPH and moving to the west-northwest at 4 MPH.
For us in Central Alabama, we’ll have periods of showers and thunderstorms throughout Friday and the weekend with rainfall totals reaching 1.00-2.00 inches east of the I-65 corridor and 2.00-4.00 inches west of I-65.
At 640 pm, strong to severe thunderstorms are moving slowly through North Alabama.
At 3:55 pm, we continue to see a complex of storms moving south-southeastward on the western side of Central Alabama with the strongest storms lined up from western Jefferson County down through parts of Tuscaloosa, Bibb, Greene, Hale, Perry, and into the extreme northern parts of Marengo County.
At 1:25 pm, an MCS moving southeastward through Mississippi has crossed over the MS/AL state line and will have the potential of strong gusty winds over 40 MPH and could briefly become severe up to 60 MPH.
For the folks in the northwestern parts of Central Alabama and in the western parts of North Alabama, a strong MCS is making its way through northern parts of Mississippi and will be crossing the AL/MS state line within the next 30 minutes or so.
At 4:50 pm, a cluster of thunderstorms were over Cleburne County and down into the northern parts of Clay and Randolph counties.
The good news at 2:00 pm is that NWS Huntsville talked it over with the Storm Prediction Center and has decided to hold off on issuing a Severe Thunderstorm Watch at the moment.
At 10:50 am, the radar is pretty quiet across Central Alabama, but we do have a few showers moving across the central portions of North Alabama.
