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Thanks to everyone for their comments on the morning post about our severe weather coverage policy. Your input is crucial in making our decisions on how we handle weather weather. Again, I want to clarify that the sports radio guys have nothing to do with this; they have been on us for a long time (no hard feelings)… the issue involves marginal tornado warnings, basically when we disagree with the NWS that a tornado warning is warranted. I have been in communication with my friends at the NWS and other TV stations around the state, and we will work through this together.
HERE WE GO AGAIN: Pretty quiet around here this afternoon thankfully; the stronger storms are way down south near the Gulf Coast. But tomorrow, a number of ingredients will come together for the potential for more strong to severe thunderstorms across the northern half of Alabama. SPC has about the northern 3/4 of the state in the standard “slight” risk of severe weather tomorrow; we will have to be concerned about a possible MCS or derecho type mass moving in our direction from the west. Watch the Weather Xtreme video and you can see the best low level helicity values will be over Northeast Alabama, and a few isolated tornadoes are not out of the question. Otherwise, there will also be a risk of damaging winds and large hail from the stronger storms. Seems like the best chance of severe storms will be in the 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m. time frame, but we can’t rule out a few storms tomorrow morning as well.
THURSDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND: We will remain in a very moist airmass on these days, and near the southern edge of the westerlies (the primary storm track) across North America. Highs will be in the 80s, and dewpoints in the 60s. No doubt we will have to mention some risk of scattered showers and storms on a daily basis, and I would not be shocked if we had a few severe storms on one or two of these days. Otherwise, the days will feature a mix of sun and clouds with very humid conditions; much like June.
LONG RANGE: Nothing to really hang your hat on in the 7 to 15 day period, looks warm and muggy with some risk of scattered showers and storms along the way. The westerlies are lifting slowly northward, so hopefully we won’t have too many severe weather days. But, this is May, and unstable air is a given just about every afternoon and all storms have to be watched.
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