Severe Weather Possible Near the Coast Tonight, Tomorrow, and Friday; Maybe Some Winter WX to the North Friday

March 8, 2022

I figured we'd see a chance of severe weather again this week but I thought it'd be a bit later. I missed it when it first popped up this morning but the SPC is indicating a slight to marginal risk of severe weather for the western FL and AL panhandles from the AL/MS line east to about the Walton/Bay county line including adjacent areas away from the coast a bit. Conditions have changed such that there is an isolated tornado and damaging wind risk with storms that develop after midnight tonight. The Day 1 Outlook below runs through 6 a.m. CST tomorrow.

The threat will continue tomorrow through the central FL panhandle, adjacent areas, and an extensive part of the southeast and for our area will last from morning through about mid afternoon when it exits the Panama City area to the east. Again, an isolated tornado and damaging wind threat is expected.

After the severe weather expect rain to continue on and off Wednesday afternoon through Friday with the potential for severe weather to return near the coast late Friday in the area shown below, more details to come.

The precip should let off sometime Saturday morning, I think fairly early. Folks in northern AL and TN may see some slight winter precip later Friday into early Saturday morning but accumulation doesn't look significant at this time. Total precip and snow probabilities (subject to error) are below.

That's it for today. If the risk for tomorrow changes I'll let you know otherwise I'll send another update Friday morning about the risk later that day.

Chris