Storms Will Move Out Shortly After 1 AM, Calmer Weather Ahead

The higher winds will die down some into the early morning hours and a much calmer weather pattern is ahead. A strong pressure gradient was centered near Arkansas and West Tennessee through the day on Monday leading to gusty winds by late morning well ahead of the storms of late evening. High winds can occur in situations like this when a strong low pressure area and a strong high pressure area area located fairly close together and in between the two will be high winds as the atmosphere tries to level out in pressure. To complicate things, Storms have developed and although the threat for tornadoes is low, The wet ground from the rainfall combined with the gradient winds that are occurring can make it easier for trees to fall. Much of the more dangerous wind threat will move out later this morning and the storms will move out as well.

Most of the severe storms will be to our south but we can’t rule out one or two storms becoming severe this evening, mainly in the southern counties. Scattered power outages may occur as well.

Winds will be gusty and high due to the tight pressure gradient over the area this evening even in areas where storms are not located, so use caution.

Winds could gust over 50 mph at times and with the wet ground from storms, a few trees could fall, especially on back roads. If you don’t have to travel this evening, it is wise to stay home as there could be tree limbs over the roadway in some area. The combination of heavy rain and an already windy day will make conditions hazardous.

Severe storms will be centered off to our south this evening. While a strong storm is possible over the southern counties, the main tornado threat will stay to our south.

Here is a current look at radar:

TIMING OF STORMS TONIGHT:

Storms will move out of the area soon. Some heavy rain will hang around in the east counties through around 1 am.

Mainly just heavy rain and gusty winds up to around 45 mph are likely in the storms but we cant rule out higher gusts right now in the state of the atmosphere over us.

Most of the storms will move out of the area by around 1:30 am Monday. Gradual clearing in the mid to late morning hours tomorrow.

Calm weather will return for several days to follow with cooler weather tomorrow (low 60s) and Wednesday (upper 50s) before a warming trend builds in late week. Temperatures will climb back to low 60s on Thursday with plenty of sunshine and we’ll be in the upper 70s for Easter Weekend! Right now it looks to stay mostly clear right into the weekend.

Brian Davis
Storm Team 7 Meteorologist
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