All of Alabama has been placed in a slight risk area for severe weather today and tonight. In fact the risk area has been expanded and now looks like this:
New Orleans, Biloxi, Gulfport, Mobile-Gulf Shores, Pensacola, Fort Walton northward all the way to Upper Michigan. This takes in:
SE Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
NW Florida
NW Georgia
East Arkansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ohio
SE Missouri
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Michigan
Within that big area is an enhanced moderate risk for:
West Tennessee from about Nashville westward
NE tip of Arkansas
Missouri Bootheel
West half of Kentucky
Indiana
SE half of Illinois
The moderate risk was extended more to the SW to include West Tennessee on the updated outlook.
ALABAMA AT 8:45 AM
Most numerous showers were over the east and south. Showers widespread from about Tallapoosa County southward. Heavy rain over South Montgomery County. Numerous showers, moderate to heavy across the Florida Panhandle westward to near Mobile. Very little lightning except near Mobile.
Only widely scattered showers over West and NW Alabama.
Everything moving NE.
A few rain amounts so far:
0.60 Muscle Shoals
0.63 Mobile
0.22 Haleyville
0.23 Bald Rock (Cook Springs area)
STILL TO COME
We still have a cold front that will come through later. At mid-morning it was over East Oklahoma and North Texas. It should be near Memphis by early evening and NW corner of Alabama by midnight. So we will probably get strong thunderstorms along and ahead of the front. Some could be severe.
