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Wednesday Night March 19, 2025
Forecaster: James Spann

MILD, WINDY DAY: The sky is sunny over a lot of Alabama this afternoon with a gusty south wind, however clouds are growing over the northwest counties forward of a chilly entrance. A wind advisory is in impact for the northern half of the state via tonight.

The entrance will push a fast-paced band of showers and storms via the state tonight; SPC maintains a low finish “marginal danger” (stage 1/5) of extreme thunderstorms for areas north and west of Birmingham.

With very restricted instability and weak dynamic assist, the general menace is low. However a couple of storms may produce small hail and gusty winds. No danger of a twister.

MUCH COLDER: Following the entrance tomorrow might be a breezy, chilly day with temperatures holding within the 40s over the northern third of the state the place a couple of spotty showers might be attainable because the higher trough passes overhead. The sky will clear throughout the southern counties with a excessive within the 50s.

Frost is probably going throughout a lot of Alabama early Friday morning with a transparent sky and diminishing wind; many spots will see a freeze. A freeze watch has been issued for the northern half of the state. Then, temperatures rise into the 60s Friday afternoon with a sunny sky.

THE ALABAMA WEEKEND: Many of the weekend might be dry. With a partly to largely sunny sky Saturday we count on a excessive within the 70s. Temperatures rise into the 77-82 diploma vary Sunday with a mixture of solar and clouds. Then, a batch of showers and storms will arrive late Sunday evening into Monday morning. SPC has outlined a danger of extreme thunderstorms west of Alabama Sunday, however with little or no instability obtainable the general extreme climate menace right here appears to be like low at this level.

By Monday afternoon showers might be confined to the far southern a part of the state, and the remainder of subsequent week appears to be like largely dry with seasonal temperatures.

STORM SURVEYS: NWS Birmingham has now confirmed 14 tornadoes from the weekend occasion. The newest to be recognized is an EF-2 over northern Sumter County.

SPRING ARRIVES: The spring equinox is early tomorrow morning at 4:01a CT. That is when the solar is instantly over the earth’s equator, that means we now have roughly 12 hours of daylight and 12 dead nights as we speak and tomorrow.

ON THIS DATE IN 2018: An EF-3 twister tore via the city of Jacksonville, in Calhoun County. The twister first touched down west of US Freeway 431 north of Wellington, the place it quickly intensified and widened. The twister entered the Metropolis of Jacksonville the place it gained energy into the EF3 class, with winds round 140 mph. It eliminated many of the roof and the highest ground of two buildings in an house complicated.

The twister affected many of the campus of Jacksonville State College. A number of buildings sustained important injury. Probably the most intense winds remained north of the campus nevertheless, mowing down timber and inflicting direct injury to houses.

Because the twister crossed Freeway 21, it brought about main injury to the Merrill Constructing. It then moved right into a extremely populated zone, the place scores of houses suffered main injury and rendered many uninhabitable. The twister maintained its energy because it crossed Choccolocco Mountain, with winds funneled up the valleys mowing down timber. Regardless of the injury, there have been no fatalities and just one critical damage.

Additionally on March 19, 2018, very massive and damaging hail in Cullman was accountable for main injury to automobiles, houses, and companies. An Alabama document 5.38″ diameter hailstone confirmed by the NWS.