Storms Moving Into The Northwest Corner Of The State; Enhanced Risk Of Severe Storms Today

A line of storms is moving southeastward out of southern Tennessee and into the northern parts of Mississippi and into the northwestern parts of Alabama. At this point, there are no severe weather warnings issued for this line, but there is plenty of lightning occurring along with very heavy rainfall. The western parts of Lauderdale County and the northwestern parts of Colbert County are already getting the leading edge of the line of storms.

A few isolated showers and storms are over the southwestern parts of Dekalb County, along with another group of diminishing showers over the southern parts of Cullman County and the western parts of Blount County.

The Storm Prediction Center had upgraded to an Enhanced Risk (level 3 of 5) of severe storms over the northern half of Central Alabama and into the extreme southern portions of North Alabama. The Slight Risk has been expanded to include a good bit of the remaining parts of Central Alabama and more of the southern parts of North Alabama.

NWS Birmingham will be doing a special sounding at noon today by request from the Storm Prediction Center. There will be plenty of instability available today for storms to develop and strengthen, with the main threat being damaging straight-line thunderstorm wind gusts up to and possibly over 70 MPH, with a smaller threat of hail up to golf ball size.

Timing for strong/severe storm development could start as early as 10:00 AM and persist throughout the day into the early evening hours. Things should start to settle down after we lose the heating of the day. We’ll keep you updated throughout the day on the blog.

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