Multi Day Severe Weather Event Shaping Up for West Tennessee!

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update

March 12, 2025

Joel Barnes,

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:

Back to back perfect days here in West Tennessee will come to an end later tonight. Some weak storms and scattered rain showers will develop around a low pressure system overnight and into the day on Thursday. The showers will move out Thursday evening and most of the day Friday will be very nice. We should hit 80° on Friday but the humidity will get thick into the evening hours setting the stage for some big storms Friday night. The storm threat will look to start around 10pm and move out overnight. Another round of storms is expected to spark up in the late morning and afternoon hours again on Saturday. The weather is going to be very active and likely dangerous as we kick off your weekend. Catch the latest from the 7 Storm Team Weather Center right here.

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THIS WEEK:

Wednesday highs reached the upper 70s to near 80° for all of West Tennessee. Wednesday night will be warm and humid and only fall to the mid to upper 50s into Thursday morning. The first chance for showers and storms this week will be here overnight into the day on Thursday. As of now, the severe weather threat appears to be low, but a few storms will try to mix in. We could be put under a level 1 (marginal risk) for some areas on Thursday but we will see what the Storm Prediction Center decides to do overnight. Highs on Thursday will make it up to around 70° but expect a mostly cloudy day with the rain showers. The winds on Thursday will stay out of the southwest. Thursday night lows will only dip to the mid to upper 50s but the showers should move out by the time the sun rises on Friday.

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Friday is going to start out quite nice with highs making it up into the low 80s before the clouds and storm chances move in. The winds on Friday will be quite breezy and it will be a humid wind coming out of the southeast tapping into the gulf moisture. Clouds will increase towards the back half of the day and storms will look to move in during the late evening with the most likely time to be impacted by storms will be after 10pm Friday night. As of storms, the storm prediction has West Tennessee under a level 3/5 on Friday with the greatest concern being near the Mississippi River and expanding to the east overnight. The storms will break up into Saturday morning before popping up again during the day on Saturday. Friday night lows will only fall to around 60° under the clouds, showers and thick humidity. All severe weather modes will be in play Friday night, including intense straight line winds, large hail and even some tornadoes, please stay weather aware. If you haven’t done so yet, please download the WBBJ 7 Storm Team Weather App before the event starts. You can track everything on the app live as the storms move through our area.

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THE WEEKEND:

Storms are expected to linger into early Saturday morning with some of them being strong and probably severe into the overnight hours of early Saturday morning. The storms should clear out for a bit but reemerge into the early afternoon hours on Saturday. The greatest threat for severe weather on Saturday appears to be along the Tennessee river in the late morning or early afternoon before moving east and becoming stronger Saturday evening to the southeast of us into Alabama. Our storm threat should wrap up by the evening here in West Tennessee on Saturday. We will be dry and cooler on Sunday.

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Saturday highs are forecast to reach the low to mid 70s and Saturday night lows will fall down to the mid 40s by Sunday morning as the cold front passes by. Saturday will be a mostly cloudy day with the winds remaining out of the southwest before moving to the northwest into the day on Sunday. There will be some clouds early in the day on Sunday that should try to clear out by Sunday afternoon. Sunday will be cooler with highs reaching up to around 60°. Sunday night will be chilly again with Monday morning lows falling into the upper 30s to kick off next week. We should stay above freezing though for the time being.