We made it through the entire month of April without a single tornado warning statewide, May was relatively quiet, but it appears that could end in the next 24-48 hours.
Much of East Central Alabama finds itself withing a 10% chance of severe weather within 25 miles of any given point, and NW Alabama is within a 30% chance. NWS has a slight risk for our area, and our Storm Chasing Division director believes that may increase to a moderate risk.
Here's the Rundown:
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
Potential for damaging straight line winds, hail, and a small spinup tornado cannot be ruled out.
Tuscaloosa's main threats will be from damaging winds, hail, and localized flash flooding from heavy rains.
Pickens, Fayette, Walker, Lamar Counties are within the 30% hatched area, so we will have to keep an eye out in these areas.
TIMING
In our area, we believe this could be a later evening Thursday going into Friday event, over by noontime Friday.
There's still a lot of uncertainty as to specifics just yet, but we will be having our Storm Chasing Division briefing tonight to go over models and plan our course. TODAY IS THE DAY TO PLAN AND ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE A PLAN OF ACTION IF SEVERE WEATHER STRIKES! I will bring you an update tonight with more specifics.
Sub Divo!
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