Quick Morning Radar Check

 

Some showers and thunderstorms are moving through North Alabama/Southern Tennessee this morning, but at this point, nothing is severe. You can see the storms stretch back through Northern Mississippi. This is one of those Mesoscale Convective Systems, fancy name for a cluster of strong thunderstorms that tend to move our way from Northwest to Southeast this time of year and through the summer months. 

This one is weakening though. 

You have to go out West to find the severe stuff right now, lots of storms capable of damaging winds moving through Oklahoma, also some pretty strong storms moving through Arkansas. 

Throughout the day,  a few isolated storms could reach severe limits, much like they can on muggy summer days. The probability is about the same for North Alabama. It's not going to rain everywhere all day long, but the chance of rain today is about 40-50% for any one spot. And there is a marginal chance that a couple of those storms could get strong enough to produce damaging wind gusts or severe hail. 

It's not that big a deal overall, but just keeping you posted. That front has started to lift northward again as a warm front. It'll bring us a good bit of rain and some thunder over the next few days. Definitely not expecting the kind of organized severe weather we had on May 20, but some stronger storms are possible here and there, and a few could reach severe limits. Anything like that should be isolated. 

Will post a detailed forecast for the week ahead some time this evening or tonight. 

6:51 AM - There is some small hail falling with some of these storms, including in Cullman County. But it's nothing to be alarmed about, under severe limits. Of course if you have to be driving through any of these areas, it's common sense to pull over if there's enough hail to make things hazardous, wait on it to pass if it's restricting visibility and such. But probably most people reading this . . . well most people probably are not awake to read this yet. Most people are probably either already at work or sleeping in.