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Tornado Warnings To Our West, Storms Developing In Central Alabama

| April 13, 2019 @ 6:06 pm

Storms continue to develop over the west and southern parts of Central Alabama as the instability continues to climb on this early Saturday evening. Some of these cells have shown broad rotation, but not enough to cause a tornado warning. Here are some pics of lowering in thunderstorms from the Spann Twitter Army…

Nearly all of Central Alabama now has instability values ranging from over 1,000 J/kg in the north to around 3,000 J/kg in the southwestern parts. There is plenty of bulk shear in place along with decent helicity. The ingredients are there for rotating updrafts and the ability for long-lasting supercells.

We could see some stronger to severe cells move into the western parts of the area somewhere between 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, with the main action moving in not that long after, around 11:00 pm to 12:00 am.

Risk levels continue to be the same across North/Central Alabama and so do the threats expected for tonight and through the early morning hours on Sunday. Threats continue to be tornadoes and damaging winds up to and exceeding 60 MPH. We do have the possibility for stronger long-track tornadoes (EF2 and above) across all of Central Alabama, but at this point, the higher probability of those will be west of the I-65 corridor. There is a smaller threat of large hail up to one-inch in diameter across the area as well.

Strong to severe thunderstorms continue across Mississippi as there are a couple of tornado warnings in effect for Yazoo, Madison, Warren, and Hinds counties. We’ve already had multiple reports of damage from Vicksburg, but fortunately, no reports of injuries at this point.

We’ll continue to keep you posted throughout the event. Stay weather aware.

Category: Alabama's Weather, ALL POSTS, Severe Weather

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Scott Martin is an operational meteorologist, professional graphic artist, musician, husband, and father. Not only is Scott a member of the National Weather Association, but he is also the Central Alabama Chapter of the NWA president. Scott is also the co-founder of Racecast Weather, which provides forecasts for many racing series across the USA. He also supplies forecasts for the BassMaster Elite Series events including the BassMaster Classic.

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