A Few Showers For Central AL; New Tornado Watch Issued For TN & MS

Much of North and Central Alabama is free from any rainfall as we make the approach to the 7:00 pm hour. We do have some shower activity in the south-central and the southeastern parts of the area, but none of these contain any lightning. No severe weather is expected across the area until after 10:00 pm tonight.

A new Tornado Watch was just issued for the extreme eastern Arkansas, extreme northern Mississippi, and much of the western half of Tennessee until 3:00 AM Tuesday morning.

The line of storms is still well off to our west over the extreme northwestern parts of Mississippi and the north-central parts of Louisiana. At this point, no severe warnings are in effect, but a Tornado Watch continues for extreme southeastern Arkansas, northern Louisiana, west-central Mississippi, and extreme east-central Texas until 11:00 pm CST.

Timing for the strong to severe storms will be from 11:00 pm to 9:00 am. The main threats continue to be damaging winds up to 70 MPH, a few tornadoes, some of which could be strong, long-track in nature, and a much lesser threat of hail. The higher risk for tornadoes will be over the northwestern parts of the state, but a tornado or two can’t be ruled out as far south as I-20.

We’ll keep you updated through the remainder of the night and through the pre-dawn hours on the blog.

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