Severe Storm Threat Friday Night & Again Saturday Afternoon

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update

March 13, 2025

Joel Barnes,

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:

We have seen a couple weak storms along the Mississippi border this afternoon but they will be moving out of West Tennessee in the next hour or two. All of our focus now will turn to Friday after sunset into early Saturday morning for the first severe weather event from this system. Not everyone will see storms Friday night, but the storms that do develop, likely will be supercells and could rotate quickly and produce tornadoes. Saturday’s event will impact almost everyone with gusty winds’ although the tornado threat is a little lower on Saturday, a few will still be possible. Stay with WBBJ on TV, online through out website and our apps over the next 36 hours as the event unfolds.

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We are still looking at a significant storm threat Friday night into Saturday afternoon. The first threat will be Friday night between 9pm and 3am. These storms will be discreet cells and will not impact most of us. The storms that do develop through will rotate and could produce long tracked tornadoes. These storms will be easy to track on radar and we should be able to give the places impacted plenty of time to get to their safe places if needed.

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The Saturday event looks to restart in the late morning and early afternoon. These storms will come out of the southwest and form in more of a line structure. The line will move to the northeast during the afternoon before clearing east of the Tennessee River by 5pm. There could be some very strong winds and isolated spin up tornadoes on Saturday as well. Look for more updates this afternoon.

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According to the Storm Prediction Center…

Persistent southerly low-level flow will bring mid to possibly upper 60s F dewpoints northward into the TN Valley overnight. A persistent, strong low-level jet will overspread the region. Forecast soundings indicate very favorable thermodynamic and kinematic profiles, which would support intense supercells. Forcing mechanisms will be somewhat modest over the region, which may limit convective coverage, and a somewhat more conditional risk. However, any storms that develop within this environment overnight will pose a risk for strong tornadoes, large hail and damaging gusts..

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THIS WEEK:

Highs on Thursday made it up into the 70s and we saw partly cloudy skies. There were a few showers and weak storms near the Mississippi border but they have moved out as of now. The winds on Thursday were out of the southwest but were light. Thursday night lows will only dip to the upper 50s due to the high humidity and light breeze out of the south. Friday is going to start out really nice but things will get rough after the sun goes down 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 all of West Tennessee under a level 3/5 on Friday with some areas northwest of Madison county under a level 4/5.

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The storms will start near the Mississippi River and expand to the east overnight. The storms will break up into Saturday morning before popping up again during the day on Saturday into the afternoon. 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.