More heavy rain, threat of severe storms Friday and a soaker in Saturday's forecast
WVTM 13 News
[{'start': '0.400', 'end': '2.001', 'text': "WE WANT TO CHECK IN NOW WITH  FIRST WARNING.  CHIEF METEOROLOGIST JASON  SIMPSON.  IN TERMS OF IMPACT.  DAYS ONE DOWN, BUT WE'RE NOT  DONE YET.  YEAH, I GOT TWO MORE TO GO  FRIDAY.  WE WILL SEE A FAIRLY QUIET START  TO THE MORNING.  A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS EARLY,  BUT AFTER 1 P.M. THROUGH ABOUT  MIDNIGHT, THE STORMS ARE GOING  TO START RUMBLING THROUGH.  A FEW OF THOSE COULD BE SEVERE,  BUT THE BIGGER TAKEAWAY HERE IS  THAT THEY'RE JUST INCONVENIENT  BECAUSE THEY'RE DIFFICULT TO  TIME AND THEY'RE NOT EVENLY  SPREAD.  NOW, SATURDAY IS INCONVENIENT  FOR A WHOLE DIFFERENT REASON,  AND THAT'S BECAUSE I THINK IT'S  RAINING PRETTY MUCH FROM START  TO FINISH.  BUT THEN BY SUNDAY, THAT FRONT  FINALLY PASSES OUR NEXT BIG  CHANGE IN THE FORECAST.  MORNING LOWS IN THE 40S AND 50S  AND HIGHS IN THE 70S GOING INTO  NEXT WEEK.  WATCH THIS.  BETWEEN ABOUT FIVE AND 8:00 M.  WE JUST HAD CLUSTERS OF STORMS  MOVING ACROSS TUSCALOOSA COUNTY  AND ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE  SCREEN, THERE WERE BIG DOWNPOURS  SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 2059 THERE  IN EASTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY  AROUND VANCE AND COALING AND  COTTONDALE.  BUT THERE WASN'T ALL THAT MUCH  HAPPENING ON THE NORTH SIDE OF  THE INTERSTATE.  WELL, THIS IS THE VIEW FROM OUR  LIVE RADAR.  FIRST WARNING LIVE RADAR RIGHT  NOW IN EAST TUSCALOOSA COUNTY.  LOOK AT THE RAIN THAT FELL  EARLIER TODAY.  AND YOU CAN PICK OUT VANCE IN  THE MERCEDES-BENZ PLANT RIGHT  THERE.  THERE'S INTERSTATE 20, THERE'S  US 11 CLOSE TO AN INCH OF RAIN  ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF VANCE.  HARDLY ANYTHING AT THE RADAR  SITE THERE ON BAMA ROCK GARDEN  ROAD.  AND THEN YOU GET DOWN INTO BIBB  COUNTY, FAIRLY CLOSE TO MCCALLIE  CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, MCCALLIE HILL,  CHRISTIAN.  THERE'S A CLOSE TO AN INCH, INCH  AND A HALF OF RAIN.  SAME THING IN THE EASTERN PART  OF WALKER.  NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON INTO  WESTERN BLOUNT COUNTY, SOUTHERN  CULLMAN COUNTY.  SOME REALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THERE  TOMORROW.  ANOTHER FIRST WARNING IMPACT  DAY.  I THINK LIGHTNING IS PROBABLY  THE NUMBER ONE THREAT WITH ANY  OF THESE STORMS.  IT IS A VERY LIMITED RISK OF  SEVERE WEATHER.  EVEN THOUGH YOU SEE THE GREEN  AND THE YELLOW HERE INDICATING  THE LEVEL ONE.  LEVEL TWO, THE OVERALLLL RISK OA  SEVERE STORM FOR ANY GIVEN SPOT  IS ON THE LOW END.  SO IS THE FLASH FLOODING RISK ON  THE LOWER END.  NOT A ZERO THREAT, BUT  LIGHTNING.  WHEREVER IT'S POPPING, IT IS AS  DANGEROUS AS ANY STORM, WHETHER  IT BE SEVERE OR NOT.  WE DID HAVE ONE LIGHTNING STRIKE  VICTIM IN SAINT CLAIR COUNTY  TODAY.  SAME KIND OF THING CAN HAPPEN IF  YOU'RE OUTDOORS IN ANY STORM.  DOESN'T HAVE TO BE SEVERE TO  HAVE SIGNIFICANT LIGHTNING WITH  IT.  1 P.M. TO 8 P.M. STORMS IN  NORTHWESTERN ALABAMA I THINK IN  THE BIRMINGHAM AREA, WE'RE AFTER  3:00 TO ABOUT 10:00 FOR THE  HEAVIEST ACTION, AND THEN THAT  STARTS TO MOVE DOWN TOWARD THE  SOUTH.  BEYOND THAT, EARLY IN THE  MORNING, SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS  ON OUR FIRST WARNING.  FUTURE TRACK, ISOLATED DOWNPOURS  DEVELOP THROUGH ABOUT 2 P.M.  BUT THEN HERE COMES THE BIG BAND  OUT TO THE WEST, AND BY 6 P.M.  WE ARE JUST COVERED UP OVER THE  WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE WITH  LOCALLY HEAVY STORMS.  THOSE COME BLASTING THROUGH  BIRMINGHAM I THINK 5 TO 7 P.M.  PROBABLY PRIME TIME.  SO AFTERNOON RUSH MAY NOT LOOK  ALL THAT GREAT.  BY 9 P.M. EVERYTHING'S MOVING  SOUTH AND THEN LOOK OUT THERE TO  THE WEST.  THAT'S NOT GREAT NEWS BECAUSE  WE'VE GOT MORE STORMY WEATHER  COMING UP ON SATURDAY.  AND I THINK THE REAL SEVERE  WEATHER RISK IS PROBABLY GOING  TO BE EAST OF ALABAMA.  BUT WE'VE GOT THIS UPPER AIR LOW  WITH THIS ENHANCED OR INCREASING  SOUTHWEST WIND FLOW ALOFT.  SOMETIMES YOU HEAR ME TALK ABOUT  THE MUSCLE AND THE FUEL.  WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF FUEL FOR  STORMS ON SATURDAY, BUT THERE'S  A WHOLE LOT OF MUSCLE IN THIS.  AND AS IT COMES BLOWING  OVERHEAD, THERE'S JUST GOING TO  BE WAVE AFTER WAVE AFTER WAVE OF  WIDESPREAD RAIN AND OCCASIONAL  THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY ALONE,  WE'RE EXPECTING ABOUT ONE HALF  TO ONE INCH OF RAIN ON AVERAGE.  SOME SPOTS MAY GET 2 OR 3IN OF  RAIN BY SATURDAY NIGHT.  SUNDAY AND MONDAY WE'RE COOLING  IT DOWN.  THERE'S THAT NEXT BIG CHANGE  AGAIN AND TOWARD THE MIDDLE AND  END OF NEXT WEEK.  WE'RE ACTIVE.  PATTERN WEATHER AGAIN WITH A  GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND  STORMS WEDNESDAY THURSDAY, AND"}]