Severe Weather Threat Fading
There is very little surface based instability across Alabama because of low clouds and rain… see the radar and surface based CAPE below….
SPC has trimmed the day one convective outlook…
REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT: With little surface instability, the risk of severe weather has diminished for Alabama. There is still some risk of a few strong to severe storms later this afternoon and tonight, but it sure looks now like most of the storms will remain below severe limits. All along, we had stated that the primary risk was with damaging straight line winds tonight along the squall line, with some risk of isolated tornadoes during the afternoon over North and West Alabama. But now, the risk is even smaller.
SCHOOLS: I am very surprised at so many schools closing. This is not anything like April 27, and we have to remember that in many rural areas away from municipalities a large percentage of the population lives in mobile homes, and sending kids to these structures isn’t the best thing to do; where schools close we encourage the systems to at least give an option for the kids to remain in a school building, as opposed to going home alone to a mobile home. This was never a major severe weather threat, and now the threat is even smaller.
Still, when it comes to thunderstorms, expect the unexpected, so we will keep a close eye on the radar throughout the afternoon…
Category: Alabama's Weather
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