Weather

We want you to be aware, prepared, and safe. Here are the top five severe weather safety tips that I have collected over the years of providing weather safety tips to our communities.

As we get closer to Saturday, a timeline will be formulated, and more specifics will be generated. The purpose of giving you advance notice is to give you ample time to prepare for the potential severe weather.

The river flood warning has been extended for the Black Warrior River At Oliver Lock and Dam, Black Warrior River At Selden Lock and Dam, Tombigbee River At Bevill Lock and Dam, Gainesville Lock and Dam and Demopolis Lock and Dam.

Strong to severe storms are in the forecast for West Alabama this weekend.

Today you will experience cloudy conditions with a high near 45 with a North wind up to 15 mph.

The National Weather Service has made some updates to the timing and adjusted the threat level areas. And there could be more area and timeline adjustments as the evening continues. We will keep you posted.

The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a tornado watch for Tuscaloosa and most of the rest of our coverage area until 11 p.m. Monday.

All of our listening areas for our Townsquare Media Radio stations are under an “Enhanced Risk” level. The timeline has been adjusted again, from Monday 5 p.m. until Tuesday at 7 a.m.

To help everyone out in advance of the potential severe weather situation we have building for our area today here is some Tornado Preparation and Safety information.

As we are approaching some possible severe weather that includes the threat of Tornadoes, I wanted you to have an understanding of Tornado Alerts, watch vs. warning.