ISOLATED STRONG STORMS POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY… RZW Exec partners, good Tuesday morning! The Storm Prediction Center has opted to include parts of our northwest Florida counties in their Level 1 (out of 5) marginal severe weather risk zone valid for Wednesday due to a low-end risk of damaging wind gusts in any of the stronger storms that happen. The risk of a brief, isolated tornado is VERY low across northwest Florida and is closer to zero across south Alabama. SPC has included the southern parts of Escambia (FL), Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Walton counties in their low-end risk zone.
WHAT TO EXPECT WEDNESDAY… In short, RAIN. We will have a good, soaking, cool rain in place across our region for much of the day on Wednesday. Rain amounts will be between 1-2″ in total before rain moves out early Thursday morning. There could be some embedded thunderstorms, especially closer to the coast. Instability is expected to be quite limited throughout this event, thus I am not nearly as concerned about the potential for severe weather as there is a very high chance we won’t have any major issues.
NEXT UPDATES… Unless we have major changes (which I’m not expecting), this will be the one and only RZW Exec alert for this particular weather system. We will begin our public messaging about the very low-end severe weather risk for Wednesday shortly. As always, please let me know if you have any questions!