Published on: July 15, 2009 at 9:50 PM

We are watching the storms moving into Northwest Alabama… a SKYCAM site up in Lauderdale County owned by WAFF just measured a wind gust of 41 mph, and a few trees have been blown down. The NWS in Huntsville is in the process of issuing a severe thunderstorm warning for the northwest corner of the state.

Very high dewpoints continue over North Alabama, and surface based CAPE values are still at 3,500 j/kg at this late hour in a few spots:

sbcp

These storms could easily drop southward into this part of Alabama late tonight, after midnight. We will be watching…