SEVERE WEATHER
A Tornado Watch until 8 o’clock tonight, CST, for much of South and East Arkansas, part of Southern Illinois and part of SE Missouri. The updated outlook from the SPC late this morning continued a Slight Risk of severe weather this afternoon and tonight from the same general area that was posted early this morning. Repeating that part:
Extreme East Texas
Most of Arkansas except NW
North half of Louisiana including all of Route I-20
North and Central Mississippi from about Jackson northward
West Tennessee from near Nashville westward and including Memphis
Extreme West Kentucky
South tip of Illionois
SE corner of Missouri
Extreme NW Alabama including places like Decatur, Florence and Russellville
This outlook at this time does not include cities like Huntsville, Gadsden, Birmingham and Tuscaloosa southward.
Radar early this afternoon showed some moderate to strong thunderstorms across Central Arkansas and some moderate to heavy rain in Central Tennessee. Earlier this morning, Memphis received 2.59 inches of rain. Showers across NW Alabama have actually decreased a bit in intensity, but have increased in number. Most of those showers extend from North Tuscaloosa and Walker Counties northward into the Tennessee Valley. Everything was moving toward the NE. Kristopher Gardner, 33/40 skywatcher for Fayette, reports 0.45 rain so far from these showers.
WHERE IS THE COLD FRONT?
At 1:00 this afternoon, the cold front was pushing steadily toward the SE. it was getting close to Little Rock and also into NE Texas. Temperatures were in the low 70s in Little Rock, but already down to 43 at Fayetteville, Arkansas in the NW corner of the state and home to the University of Arkansas. It was only 37 degrees over NE Oklahoma and in the mid 20s in Northern Kansas. This is a pronounced change to colder.
