Severe Weather Risk for Today Increased

May 6, 2022

I was not expecting a round of storms along the coast this morning! A line moving east from Louisiana was expected to fall apart overnight but that didn't happen. The storm prediction center has added an enhanced risk area (orange) for more or less the southeastern half of Alabama (if you fold the state from NW to SE) and eastern TN. The tornado risk has also been increased in the slight risk area. In eastern/southeastern AL there is a 10% chance of a tornado, 30% chance of damaging winds, and 15% chance of hail. The 30% wind risk also extends a bit into eastern TN. The slight risk area (yellow), which includes a 5% tornado chance, and 15% chance of damaging wind and hail covers most of the rest of the state of AL, the FL coast through the Big Bend, and the eastern half of TN.

Timing is mostly the same as yesterday (and when I say timing I mean timing of the worst weather) with severe weather possible from morning through the afternoon or evening for most areas, see graphics for your area.

Day 1 Outlook

Huntsville Area (what, no nice map?)

Birmingham Area

Mobile-Pensacola

Destin-Panama City and Parts East

Except for maybe eastern TN it looks like the weather will clear out by Saturday morning so the weekend should be pretty nice with cool evenings all the way to the coast for a few days.

Stay safe today and have a great weekend.

Chris