Late Afternoon Look at Alabama Weather

Our huge derecho is moving into Georgia at this hour.

The apex is nearing Carrollton GA. Our friends there are getting ready to experience some intense winds.

South of there…the line of storms extends across…
…eastern Randolph County
…Chambers County
…to just east of Opelika in Lee County
…through eastern Macon and into western Russell County
…into eastern Bullock County

Severe thunderstorm warnings are laid out ahead of the line that is moving quickly eastward. Be ready for intense winds as the line arrives.

Probably hundreds of thousands of trees are down over a 750 miles swath from eastern Texas across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama into Georgia.

It was a well forecast event with plenty of advance warning. But unfortunately, one person died near Laurel MS when a tree fell onto a mobile home.

Also, supercell storms developed along a boundary over North Central Alabama and produced reports of tornadoes and funnel clouds from northern Bibb county through Jefferson and Shelby, into St. Clair and Calhoun Counties.

Looking at radar composites, there are showers over Northwest Alabama back into northern Mississippi, but nothing heavy there. A little bit of lightning near Moulton, but that’s about it.

There is a double barreled surface low over southern Arkansas with a trailing cold front back into Texas. A stationary front is draped over Northwest Alabama.

Additional showers and storms could develop later tonight as the lows move northeast and the front moves east, but nothing severe is anticipated.

The front may stall across South Central Alabama and wait on another surface wave on Monday afternoon. If this materializes, we could see rain down to the south on Monday, mainly in the Opelika to Montgomery to Greenville Corridor.

In the I-20/59 corridor, our rain chances should drop by morning. We could see a little clearing late in the afternoon.

Tuesday looks like a nice day, but showers could be in the forecast from Wednesday through Friday as an upper trough sets up across the area. They should clear up by Saturday and Sunday.

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