Published on: April 25, 2008 at 12:40 PM

Our first showers in Alabama in several days formed at mid-day over the NE Part of the state.

At 12:40 pm, they were grouped mainly over Central and NE Calhoun County north and NE of the Anniston-Oxford area and extended NE into the SW corner of Cherokee County.

They were moderate in intensity and moving NE. They are part of a family of showers that also extends into NW Georgia across the Rome area and NE of Rome.

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
No part of Alabama is included in an SPC outlook today or tomorrow. However a very large area of the country is under a slight risk for this afternoon and tonight.

Fairly rare, but the risk extends from border to border from the Mexican border to just a few miles of the Canadian border. The broad area extends from the Rio Grande River, including Laredo and Del Rio NE across most of these areas:

East and SE Texas
NW 1/4 of Louisiana
NW corner of Mississippi
All of Arkansas
Extreme SE Oklahoma
All of Missouri
West Edge of Tennessee but including Memphis
West edge of Kentucky
All of Illnois
East Half Iowa
South half Wiscondin including Milwaukee and Green Bay
Indiana except Extreme SE
Almost all of Louwer Michigam
Small part of Upper Michigan