399 FXUS64 KBMX 082115 AFDBMX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Birmingham AL 415 PM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025 ...New SHORT TERM... .KEY MESSAGES... Issued at 415 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2025 - A level 2 out of 5 chance for strong to severe storms on Monday as additional clusters of showers and storms develops to the west/northwest and moves across Central Alabama. Damaging straight-line winds will be the main hazard. && .SHORT TERM... (This evening through Monday) Issued at 415 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2025 The showers and storms hung around a little longer this afternoon and has kept temperatures from warming out if control. The boundary associated with this activity has pushed south of the area. With the lack of excess heating and a fairly more stable environment, we are going to go ahead and pull the severe weather for the rest of the afternoon. While there are still some chances for showers and storms through the evening, it appears too low to continue to mention. 16 Previous short-term discussion: (Tonight through Monday) Issued at 1127 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2025 Tonight, the boundary should continue to move to the south, with a few light showers possible in the far south overnight. With high low level moisture and cooler temps overnight, fog development is possible in many areas. By sunrise, scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible across the area, with another line of storms moving into the area from the west and southwest by mid morning. This line will move west to east through the morning and the afternoon, with additional showers and thunderstorms developing behind the initial line. Instabilities will be several thousand, high LI values, PW values max, and shear around 40 kts at least. Damaging winds and large hail are possible with any activity on Monday. And with a southerly component to the low level winds, with a westerly direction at the mid levels, a few storms could rotate with a tornado possible. This threat is very low, but with the shear present, this mention must be included. 24 && .LONG TERM... (Monday night through next Saturday) Issued at 148 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2025 A cold front will be in the process of passing through the area at the start of the extended forecast period with broad longwave troughing over the Eastern CONUS. This will usher in a drier airmass which should help to lower our rain chances for at least a couple of days depending on how far south the dry air progresses. Highest thunderstorm chances look to focus across the Gulf Coast region on Tuesday and Wednesday. Temperatures will begin warming back into the lower 90s by Thursday as low-level flow shifts back to the southwest in response to a deepening trough axis over the Southern Plains. This will bring deeper moisture content back into Central Alabama and will likely result in increased rain chances again for the second half of the week with scattered to numerous showers and storms expected on Thursday and Friday, especially during the afternoon. The pattern still appears rather chaotic by the end of the week, so details will be difficult to track this far ahead, but we may see some severe risks materialize during this time as well. A subtropical ridge may begin to strengthen over the eastern Gulf by the weekend as the mid-level trough over the ArkLaTex makes little eastward progress, placing Central Alabama within a zone of continued unsettled weather this weekend. 86/Martin && .AVIATION... (18Z TAFS) Issued at 1127 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2025 Convection will slowly continue to the south with low level moisture remaining high and MVFR ceilings behind the convection. These should improve within a few hours after the rain stops, with a break in activity. Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected through the afternoon. Due to uncertainties in timing and coverage, have left a general VCSH in each TAF for now and will need to update for location of thunderstorms when they develop. Overnight there should be break in storms, but low level moisture will be high for fog potential at each site. A line of storms will move into the area after sunrise, with activity lasting through the rest of the TAF period. Timing of each line in each TAF for showers/storms may need to be adjusted, depending on where boundaries end up overnight and storms begin to form this afternoon and tomorrow. 24 && .FIRE WEATHER... Humid conditions with a couple more rounds of storms are expected through tomorrow before a cold front moves through the area and brings drier air on Tuesday. Min RH will remain well above critical thresholds even after the frontal passage, and the saturated conditions will limit any fire weather concerns for the next several days. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Gadsden 66 84 63 84 / 10 70 60 20 Anniston 68 82 66 83 / 10 80 70 30 Birmingham 68 81 66 84 / 10 80 60 30 Tuscaloosa 69 83 67 85 / 20 80 50 30 Calera 69 82 67 84 / 20 80 60 40 Auburn 69 82 68 83 / 30 80 80 60 Montgomery 70 85 68 84 / 50 80 80 70 Troy 69 87 67 84 / 60 80 80 80 && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && $$ SHORT TERM...16 LONG TERM....86/Martin AVIATION...24