From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
TRUSSVILLE –According to the National Weather Service in Birmingham, models are shaping up to show the potential for severe weather across parts of Alabama on Monday night into Tuesday morning. The risks include possible severe long-track tornadoes, large hail, and damaging high winds.
Jefferson County borders on the area of elevated risk and some recent models have shown Jefferson, St. Clair and Blount counties in the elevated risk area.
“Forecast models continue to show a setup for a potentially significant severe weather event late on Monday and into the morning hours on Tuesday,” according to Alabamawx.com. “With a strong jet setting up close by and an open-wave trough that will go negative tilt, we still see conditions coming together for all modes of severe weather… damaging winds in excess of 70 MPH, large hail, and some tornadoes.
“A few of those tornadoes have the potential to be significant, long-track tornadoes. The main window for severe storms in Central Alabama will be from roughly 10:00 pm Monday to 7:00 am Tuesday, with the chance that a few storms may linger around as late as 9:00 am for the extreme eastern locations in the area.”
Forecasters are warning residents to make sure that they have a working weather radio or an app on their phone to alert them to tornado warnings.
For people living in mobile homes, it is critical that they know the nearest tornado shelter location. Also, make sure friends and family – especially the elderly – are aware of the weather threats on Monday night and Tuesday.
