Weekend Severe Weather

Here are the timing and threat levels to the weekend severe weather event.

Remember any of this can change due to the changing of the weather patteren.

Please be weather ready and keep tuned to your local broadcast station and/or

this page for further updates. In any event of severe weather damage,

contact your local police dept and the Barbour County EMA. ~EJ

Between 3 pm and 6 pm a threat of elevated storms will move into the

southern counties of central Alabama. These storms will carry with them

the potential for damaging straight line winds and large hail. Prior to 6 pm,

any tornado threat should remain south of central Alabama, closer to the Gulf Coast.

After 6 pm on Saturday, the severe weather threat will slide northward.

Damaging straight line winds and large hail will be possible as far north

as the I-20 corridor. As the warm front moves towards central Alabama,

a tornado risk will begin for our southern most counties.

After midnight tonight, the severe weather threat is expected to drift northward

as the warm front moves northward. The northward extent of the tornado

threat will greatly depend on the location of the warm front. Tornado chances

will be best along and south of the warm front. The cold front will also begin to

move into our western counties during this time frame. Although there is the

potential for redevelopment along the front, the threat for severe weather will

end once the cold front moves through your area.