With the chance for severe thunderstorms and all modes of severe weather possible Tuesday, this post will mainly focus on that threat. The Storm Prediction Center has outlined a Level 3 out of 5 risk for severe weather Tuesday. The time frame looks to be during the afternoon to early evening.
THREATS: With the potential for scattered supercell thunderstorms, rather than a line of storms, all threat types are possible. Those threats including damaging winds (up tp 70mph), hail (potentially large hail near golf ball size with any strong supercells), as well as a tornado threat. We are still monitoring the magnitude of the tornado threat, but we already know this system has a history of producing multiple tornadoes. I don’t say that to scare anyone, but it’s important to know how a system is verifying before it reaches our area. At this time, we cannot rule out a few strong tornadoes in the general area. There is still time for model data to change, but we want to communicate all potential threats in a timely fashion so you can be prepared.
TIMING: Scattered supercell thunderstorms may develop as early as 2PM Tuesday and move through the Tennessee Valley. Exactly how long the threat will last is still unclear, so we are going with a rough timing of 2PM – 10PM. This time frame may need to be adjusted.
IMPORTANT SEVERE WEATHER ALERT INFORMATION
The National Weather Service in Nashville, TN is conducting upgrades to its weather alert system. This means that if you live in Wayne, Lawrence, Giles, Marshall, Maury or Lewis County in Tennessee, weather information WILL NOT be transmitted to your NOAA Weather Radio Tuesday. TO BE CLEAR: Warnings will STILL be issued, they just will not be transmitted to weather radios. This upgrade was scheduled well before the forecast was known, and is crucial to support their infrastructure. Other counties in our viewing area will not be affected by this outage.
WAYS TO GET WEATHER INFORMATION
TN VALLEY WX APP: Our FREE app will send you push notifications for weather alerts right to your smartphone custom to your location. Search “Tennessee Valley Weather” in your app store.
SOCIAL MEDIA: Along with OUR Facebook, X (Twitter), and Instagram accounts, you can follow the National Weather Service Nashville official page. There, they provide watch and warning information. You can turn alerts on for the accounts so you can receive notifications when something is posted.
WEA Alerts: These are the alerts that get sent to your smartphone automatically (ex: AMBER Alerts). These notification will still function as usual. Please make sure these alerts are turned on in your notification settings. There is the option to toggle them off. That won’t do you any good.
WEATHERCALL: This subscription-based service sends warning information right to your phone, via a call. It is $15/year, which comes out to a little over a dollar per month. Head to the store on our website if you are interested.
