Approaching the 8 O’Clock Hour

Things are calming a bit overall this evening over Central Alabama. As we lose the heating of the day, instabilities are dropping. To the south, a strong capping inversion remains in place and the storms are continuing to weaken as they push southeast.

For the most part.

The strongest storm is passing into Georgia from southern Cherokee and northern Cleburne Counties.

There is a decent storm passing north of Pell City in St. Clair County. It has shown broad rotation. When it passed east of us here in Trussville, it strengthened a good bit and had tremendous lightning and you could hear a loud roaring aloft from strong winds above the surface.

Strong but not severe storms have popped up across southern Cullman, extreme northern Jefferson into Blount Counties.

Back to the west, we continue to monitor eastern Mississippi where strong storms continue from Kosciusko to Macon. These will impact Pickens, Greene and Tuscaloosa counties over the next hour or so. They will probably weaken with time.

All this is ahead of a cold front that is slowing back to our west. The most impressve thing about the front is the moisture discontinuity. The dewpoint is 25F at Hot Springs Arkansas, 37F at Memphis and 63F at Tupelo. The front will slow and stall overnight before retreating tomorrow to the north as a warm front. We will be in the warm sector Thursday and Friday with more storms in store. Some of them will be severe Friday afternoon late and Friday night.

A tornado watch continues til 9 p.m. for Fayette, Walker, Jefferson, St. Clair, Etowah and Cherokee Counties.

Category: Alabama's Weather, Severe Weather