At 7:50 pm, a surface low was located in the vicinity of Memphis, TN, moving northeast and expected to be in southern Indiana by 1 am. A cold front was situated from the surface low southwestward into northern Louisiana between Shreveport and Monroe. The front was fair easy to identify by both dew point drop and the wind shift along the front.
Well ahead of the front was a line of thunderstorms stretching from Nashville, TN, to about Mobile, AL. While some thunderstorms in the line have required warnings with some reports of wind damage, there were no warnings in effect in Alabama at this writing.
Damage reports so far in Alabama have been minimal with reports of several trees down in York (Sumter County) and a wind gust to 58 mph in Montgomery (Montgomery County) according to local storm reports from the Birmingham NWS office. Outside of Alabama, the SPC has reported over 80 wind damage reports, a number of those from Mississippi, and just over a dozen hail reports, most around 1 inch size.
Radar did indicate several pockets of substantial lightning occurrences in northern Tuscaloosa County and in Hale and eastern Marengo counties.
With the loss of daytime heating, the likelihood for additional severe thunderstorms is diminished, but people should still remain alert to rapidly changing weather conditions.
Preliminary rainfall based on radar estimates only show that many places along the Alabama/Mississippi line have received around 1 to 2 inches of rain with isolated spots receiving as much as 3 inches of rain. Looks like most areas will see around a half inch of rain.
-Brian-
