Lots of Sun Ahead… Wednesday Afternoon Forecast Discussion – 4:45pm Update

Good Wednesday evening! After severe weather issues earlier this morning, conditions are becoming pretty quiet this afternoon and evening. As of 4:30 pm, a batch of showers were moving across parts of west and central Alabama, but most of us are starting to dry out. Conditions will continue to dry out later this evening and tonight. Skies are expected to become clear later tonight.

As cool air replaces the warm air, look for temperatures to fall into the upper 40s after 7 pm and upper 30s after 10 pm. It’s going to be a pretty chilly night across west and central Alabama. Temperatures will dip below average highs on Thursday and Friday. Highs will reach the lower 50s on Thursday and upper 40s on Friday. A reinforcing shot of cooler air will move in on Friday, which explains the decrease in temperatures for that day.

The upper air trough will retreat east over the weekend. A disturbance will move into Alabama on Saturday, so we’ve included a 20% chance of a passing shower or two. The risk of rain is low due to little moisture in the atmosphere. Highs will top out in the upper 50s on Saturday, so there’s no threat of wintry weather with that system. As the disturbance moves out early Sunday morning, skies will quickly become sunny through the day.

Temperatures will start to reach the lower 60s for highs first thing next week, with skies remaining mostly sunny to partly cloudy. Overnight lows will warm into the lower 40s at night next week. At this point, I don’t expect any additional rain to start off next week, as our pattern dries just a bit.

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Rain Is Ending…Cool Air Is Back… Wednesday Update – 2:45pm

Good Wednesday afternoon! As of 2:45pm, all severe weather issues were in the state of Georgia; in-fact, things have been pretty quiet over the past several hours across all of west and central Alabama. While it has rained a lot this morning, the severe weather issues didn’t last long early this morning. All we’re left with this afternoon is a cool rain across the eastern half of Alabama.

As of 2:45pm, rain has ended for the most part across much of west Alabama. A little drizzle is possible through 4pm in west Alabama, but that won’t amount to much at all. Areas near and east of I-65 will see the steady rain end a little later this afternoon. The back edge of the rain should work into Georgia by 4 or 5pm.

I’ll admit, I didn’t expect this much rain across west and central Alabama. The rain moved through slower than expected, the reason we got a big soaking. While there were a few flash flooding issues, I haven’t heard of anything major in terms of flooding at this time.

As of severe weather issues from this morning, it sure seems like much of west and central Alabama was spared any major issues. That being said, there was significant wind damage reported across parts of Fayette, Walker and Winston County. It was the classic winter time system, where a little more instability would have caused a major problem across all of our area. Fortunately, instability was lacking a bit, which caused issues to be more isolated. We had several tornado warnings, but I have not heard of any confirmed reports of a tornado touchdown in our area at this time.

Check out this video from the Adairsville, Georgia area. Notice how a little more instability can turn into a bad situation…

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Severe Weather Issues Ending Fast… Wednesday Update 8:50 am

Good Wednesday morning! As of 8:50am, severe weather issues have ended for most of west Alabama. While rain is still falling over much of west Alabama at this time, the severe threat is on the leading edge of the rain. As of 8:50am, the damaging wind portion of the storms were located in a line from Birmingham to Brent to Marion to Linden. Areas west of this line will have no issues with severe weather for the rest of the day.

If you live east of the cities listed above, you’ve got a risk of isolated wind damage or a quick spin-up tornado between 9am and 11am. You can see the map above, where I’ve noted the area of possible severe weather issues for the rest of the morning. The line will reach Montgomery by 11am.

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Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Marengo and Hale County Until 845am Wednesday

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…SOUTHERN HALE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA…NORTHERN MARENGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA…

* UNTIL 845 AM CST

* AT 757 AM CST…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MYRTLEWOOD…OR NEAR LINDEN…AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE… LINDEN…PIN HOOK…CHICKASAW STATE PARK…ARCOLA…FAUNSDALE… NEWBERN…PROVIDENCE AND OLD SPRING HILL.

WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH WILL BREAK LARGE TREE LIMBS AND CAUSE SOME DAMAGE…ESPECIALLY TO SMALLER STRUCTURES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY…IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED…ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE…SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

Richard Scott

Radar Update 7:30am Wednesday… Severe Weather Moving East

Good Wednesday morning! As of 7:30am, the line of strong to severe storms has passed east of Fayette, Jasper, Tuscaloosa, Vernon, Reform, Eutaw and Geiger. Areas east of Livingston, Eutaw, Tuscaloosa and Jasper will still deal with a threat of damaging wind and an isolated tornado over the next couple of hours. This mess should be east of I-65 by 9 or 10am and into Georgia by noon…

Temperatures will drop fast once the cold front reaches your area! Look for rain for about an hour or two after the severe weather threat passes east of you.

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Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Sumter Co Until 8:15am Wednesday

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…SOUTHERN SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA…

* UNTIL 815 AM CST

* AT 728 AM CST…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING  DAMAGINGWINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF KINTERBISH…OR 8 MILES SOUTH OF CUBA…AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…CUBA…YORK…LIVINGSTON…KINTERBISH…THE UNIVERSITY OF WEST ALABAMA…COATOPA…BLUFFPORT AND DUG HILL.

THIS INCLUDES…INTERSTATE 20 EXIT NUMBERS 1 THROUGH 17…

WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH WILL BREAK LARGE TREE LIMBS AND CAUSE SOME DAMAGE…ESPECIALLY TO SMALLER STRUCTURES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

FOR YOUR PROTECTION…MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

Richard Scott

Severe TStorm Warning – Tuscaloosa – until 7:45am

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA…

* UNTIL 745 AM CST

* AT 647 AM CST…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A LINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
LAKE TUSCALOOSA BINION CREEK LANDING TO KNOXVILLE…AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
NORTHPORT…TUSCALOOSA…HOLT…BRYANT DENNY STADIUM…UNIVERSITY
MALL…SHELTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE…BANKHEAD LOCK AND DAM AND
MCFARLAND MALL.

THIS INCLUDES…
INTERSTATE 20 EXIT NUMBERS 62 THROUGH 89…

WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH WILL BREAK LARGE TREE LIMBS AND CAUSE SOME
DAMAGE…ESPECIALLY TO SMALLER STRUCTURES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY…IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED…ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE…SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CST WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHWESTERN ALABAMA.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER…
CALL 1-800-856-0758 OR TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG ALWX

Severe Weather Risk is Ending in West Alabama… Wednesday Update 6:30am

Good Wednesday morning! Other than a couple of tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings, we haven’t had that much damage being reported across Alabama so far. The main area of wind damage we picked up was over Fayette and Winston County. Even where we had a couple of tornado warnings, I haven’t heard of any tornado damage.

Good news… The severe weather risk has ended over extreme west Alabama. The leading edge of the storms have passed Tuscaloosa and Jasper as of 6:30am. The storms are weakening at this time. There’s still a chance a storm or two could reach severe limits between now and 9am across west and central Alabama. Strong winds will be the main issue.

As of 6:30am, rain is falling over much of west Alabama, but the severe weather risk has moved east of Jasper, Tuscaloosa and Livingston. The severe risk will end for the Birmingham, Centreville to Linden areas by 8am. All severe weather issues should be in Georgia by 10 or 11am.

Once the leading edge of the storms reaches your house, the severe risk will end within an hour. After that, you’ll be left with some rain for an hour or two.

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Tornado Warning – Tuscaloosa, Walker Counties until 6:30 a.m.

TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
549 AM CST WED JAN 30 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR…
NORTH CENTRAL TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA…
EASTERN WALKER COUNTY IN ALABAMA…

* UNTIL 630 AM CST

* AT 548 AM CST…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM
WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOLEY SPRINGS…OR 19 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CORDOVA…AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
CORDOVA…DORA…SUMITON…GORGAS…GORGAS STEAM PLANT…PARRISH…
BURNWELL…BELOIT…LYNNS PARK AND ROCKY HOLLOW.

THIS INCLUDES…
US 78 EXIT NUMBERS 65 THROUGH 72…

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

TAKE COVER NOW. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING.

&&

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER…
CALL 1-800-856-0758 OR TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG ALWX

Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Lamar, Fayette, Walker, Winston, Marion County Until 6:15am Wed

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA… EAST CENTRAL LAMAR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA… EASTERN MARION COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA… NORTHWESTERN WALKER COUNTY IN ALABAMA… WINSTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA…

* UNTIL 615 AM CST

* AT 519 AM CST…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL…AND  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED  ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LAKE BUTTAHATCHEE TO BELK…AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 75 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE… FAYETTE…LYNN…CARBON HILL…NEEDMORE…GLEN ALLEN…ASHRIDGE…
ELDRIDGE AND WINSTON FREE STATE BARN.

THIS INCLUDES… US 78 EXIT NUMBERS 26 THROUGH 46…

Richard Scott