Some very strong thunderstorms off the Texas Coast. They extend from Galveston southwestward over open water.
Other thunderstorms were over the open waters of the North Gulf of Mexico. A warm front was positioned west to east and moving northward.
North of Galveston, a broad line of showers and storms continued northward into NE Texas. Northward from that, it is wintry precipitation across the NW half of Arkansas into South Missouri,
The nearest precipitation to Alabama at 8 tonight was some scattered, mostly light showers over South Mississippi. A few spot reports:
Galveston…61 with heavy rain
Shreveport…47, light rain, NW wind gusting to 36 mph
Fayetteville, Ark.,…32 cloudy, wind chill 26
Little Rock…39 cloudy, NE gusts to 35 mph
Memphis…39 cloudy, north gusts 23
Shreveport…42 rain, north, gusts 36
Down in extreme South Texas, a hot 93 this afternoon at McAllen
MODEL NEWS
The new NAM model positions the surface low between Anniston and Atlanta at 6 pm Friday with precipitation back into Extreme East Arkansas. This particular model is favorable for precipitation to start changing over to snow over NW Alabama.
Then at midnight tomorrow night, the surface low is in the vicinity of Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., and Asheville, N.C., with the map looking even more like snow over West and NW Alabama: (Click on the map for full-size view)
