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SPC Expands Slight Risk for Sunday

| February 9, 2013 @ 12:41 pm

The latest Day 2 convective outlook issued by the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma now has much of West Alabama in a slight risk for severe weather tomorrow. This does include many areas along and west of Interstate 65 and includes the cities of Birmingham, Cullman, Tuscaloosa, Jasper, Hamilton, Fayette, Vernon, Aliceville, Clanton, Selma, Demopolis, Livingston, Grove Hill and Mobile.

A slight risk means there is an elevated chance of some organized severe weather in the risk area. However, remember that you do not have to be in a risk to experience severe weather.

For Alabama, it looks as though the worst of the weather will hold off until Sunday afternoon. A warm front will be lifting across Alabama on Sunday, bringing in more moist and unstable air from the Gulf of Mexico. Low pressure in the Plains will track northeast into the Midwest and will be swinging a cold front through the region. The uplift with the front, increase wind shear from the low, and instability from the moist air, will gives us a threat for severe weather.

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For major severe weather outbreak across Alabama, it is best for the low pressure to be in Arkansas, or Southern Missouri. This low will be further to the north and west, so we are not expecting a major severe weather outbreak, but the ingredients will be in place for a threat of some strong to severe storms across the Southeast. The main threat from this system will be damaging winds, but some isolated tornadoes will be possible, especially in areas of Louisiana and Mississippi. Still plenty of time to watch this and things can change, but just make sure you have effective ways to receive severe weather notifications.

Category: Alabama's Weather, Severe Weather

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