Severe Threat Has Ended For Tonight

RADAR CHECK AT 7:10 PM
The severe threat has now ended for all of Central Alabama, as the main line of showers and storms has now pushed well off into Georgia. There are a few showers on the tail end of the line that are lingering along and around the I-85 corridor east of I-65. The heaviest activity is located in northern Chambers County approaching Five Points, and in the extreme southern parts of the county, just north of Opelika.

The actual cold front is still located over the extreme western parts of the state and will move through during the late night and into the overnight hours. Skies will be clearing from west to east and lows will drop down into the upper 30s to the upper 40s from northwest to southeast. The good news is that the cold front is bringing with it drier, Pacific air… not the Arctic cold that we have put up with throughout the entire month.

We’ll have to wait for a little while before rainfall totals are released, but we do know that a few locations between Wetumpka and Montgomery received over 3.5 inches due to cells training over the same area. That occurred due to the line going from nearly vertical as it entered the state from the west to leaning well past 45º to the right late in the afternoon. The line of storms pushed off to the east, but the individual cells within the line traveled to the northeast… and that is what caused the training and impressive rainfall amounts.

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