It has been a relatively quiet day across Alabama, only a few light showers and no strong thunderstorms. There were some strong storms across Central Georgia where a Tornado Watch was posted. A Tornado Watch is also in effect for West Tennessee and North Mississippi until midnight and parts of Arkansas under a Tornado Watch labeled PDS (Particular Dangerous Situation).
At 6:30 p.m., there were no strong thunderstorms in Alabama, Mississippi or Louisiana. However, they were exploding over Eastern Oklahoma eastward across Central Arkansas.
About one hour ago, we had only seen three tornado warnings so far today. Since that time, 26 tornado warnings have been issued in about one hour after 5:00.
WHAT’S AHEAD FOR ALABAMA?
We are still under that Moderate Risk all night. The timeline for our worst weather will be late tonight into the early morning hours Sunday. At first we thought it would be earlier than that. We could still get some individual warnings at some point this evening.
We are fearful, however, that all of those thunderstorms west of Alabama will evolve into a long line of vicious storms and sweep across Alabama late tonight possibly causing widespread wind damage, large hail and even some tornadoes.
If we had to come up with a timeline now, we would say 10:00 p.m. over in Alabama’s western counties and midnight or later east of I-65. There may be some ongoing strong storms over near the Georgia border even at daybreak tomorrow.
We will most likely get a tornado watch later this evening.
A DIVERSION
We just gotta mention this to get our mind off severe weather for a change. Late this afternoon Alabama time, it was 91 below zero at Vostok, Antarctica with winds sustained at 16 mph. That should mean a wind chill of at 135 below zero. They are expecting the actual temperature to drop to 104 below zero by the middle of next week. Sorry to take up space with non-severe weather.
