A cold front is approaching Alabama on this Christmas Eve.
Ahead of it, a line of storms is pushing east and southeast across Northwest Alabama. It has almost no surface based instability to work with, but it being caused by the strong forcing associated with the front feeding on some elevated instability. So not classic storms, but ones capable of strong gusty winds.
The strongest segment of the line extends across Fayette, Northwest Walker and Winston Counties. Fayette is getting hit hard right now, and Carbon Hill is about to be. Double Springs is getting heavy rain right now also. Winds will gust to 40 mph.
The line is moving east at about 25 mph. It is also developing southward and will affect Pickens and Tuscaloosa Counties. It is a little over 2 hours away from northwestern parts of the Birmingham metro.
Watching storms over South Central Alabama have better instability available to them. There is still more spin in the atmosphere over South Central Alabama, but conditions are not really favorbale for significant severe weather.
No warnings right now…only a significant weather alert in the Tennessee Valley.
