Severe storms are happening near the Alabama/Tennessee border near Huntsville. Much of the state is now included in the SPC "slight" (Level 2 out of 5) risk zone to potentially see a few strong/severe storms today. Damaging wind gusts remain the concern. Not a tornado day. pic.twitter.com/mY1ojWbjiL
— Spinks Megginson (@rzweather) June 28, 2018
LOCAL FORECAST UPDATE… A field of cumulus clouds has developed over south Alabama and northwest Florida. I expect a few strong thunderstorms to develop over the next hour as clouds continue to billow up and ultimately become showers/storms. We note that the Storm Prediction Center has upped the eastern part of our area into their Level 2 (out of 5) risk for today, meaning a few storms capable of producing damaging straight line winds will be possible. Today won’t be a tornado day, but there could be a few “loud and proud” thunderstorms this afternoon/this evening capable of producing damaging wind gusts.
SEVERE STORMS TO OUR NORTH… A strong/severe line of thunderstorms is entering northeast Alabama. We note portions of Jackson/DeKalb counties in the far northern part of Alabama are now under a severe thunderstorm warning ahead of the line of storms moving in from the north, currently affecting areas near Chattanooga. This band of storms will continue moving south. I wouldn’t be shocked to see severe thunderstorm warnings needed for Huntsville, Decatur, and other locales in north/northeast Alabama over the next few hours.
I’ll have radar updates posted as needed here in the RZWeather app and on rzweather.com. Don’t forget about our High-Level Alert test in the RZWeather app this evening at 8PM.
ANDROID UPDATE JUST RELEASED… If you utilize the RedZone Weather app on an Android device, please visit the Google Play store to UPDATE your app to version 2.12. We just released this important update to all Android users. The release fixes a critical notification bug that caused some Android users to not receive push notifications. The bug affected newer Android devices that are running version 8.0.0 (codenamed “Oreo”) of Android. Please update ASAP to continue receiving weather alerts!
iOS users are not and were never affected by this bug. The latest version of the app for iOS is version 2.11, released several weeks ago.
Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued for much of north & northeast Alabama valid until 7PM CDT. Damaging wind gusts will be the main concern in the stronger storms. Cullman, Anniston, Gadsden, Huntsville, Muscle Shoals, Decatur, Talladega, Sylacauga, Oneonta included. pic.twitter.com/JBfL4LnIda
— Spinks Megginson (@rzweather) June 28, 2018
Hot, humid, and P.M. storms ahead for the Alabama and NW Florida weekend… pic.twitter.com/m8okMETzgI
— Spinks Megginson (@rzweather) June 28, 2018
