NWS Birmingham Introduces A Marginal Risk For Southwest Parts Of The Area

Scott Martin | October 25, 2019 @ 10:29 am

NWS Birmingham has introduced a Marginal Risk of severe storms today with the main window occurring from 1:00 pm this afternoon through 10:00 pm tonight. Main threat will be from damaging winds up to 60 MPH, but a brief tornado or two cannot be ruled out.

The Marginal Risk includes locations along and south of a line from Geiger to Marion to Fort Deposit.

*** This does not include Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Anniston, Cullman, and Gadsden.***

Here is the text from NWS Birmingham:

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the counties served by the National Weather Service office in Birmingham.

DAY ONE…Outlook through Tonight.

There is a Marginal Risk of severe storms from 1 PM to 10 PM near and south of a line from Panola in Pickens County to Letohatchee in Lowndes County. The primary threats include a brief tornado and damaging straight line winds.

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

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