Earthquake Today, Wind Chill in the Teens Tonight, Severe/Flood Threat Saturday, Snow Chance Next Week!

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update

February 13, 2025

Joel Barnes,

WBBJ 7 Forecast Update:

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It has been another busy day in the 7 Storm Team Weather Center. We have an earthquake this morning in Jackson at 10:38 AM. It has also been a cold day and will remain chilly all night long. We should warm up some for Valentine’s Day but all eyes are on Saturday. A severe weather and significant flood threat looks to be on the way. Some of us could see up to 5″ of rain and all severe weather modes will be on the table along and south of I-40. There is also a decent shot for some snow next week too! We will get to it all right here.

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THIS WEEK:

After starting out with 8 days above normal to kick off the month of February, we finally had a couple days below normal for Sunday and Monday. We will drop below freezing for the first time in a while Thursday night for sure for all of us. Rain moved in Monday night and lasted into Tuesday afternoon and another round moved in during the first half of the day on Wednesday. Heavier rain and thunderstorms are expected on Saturday and that will lead to some increased flooding concern in West Tennessee including the Tennessee River near Savannah.

May be an image of map and text that says 'STORM TEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.com FLOOD ALERTS HIGH RISK LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT CRITERIA FOR WEST TENNESSEE FLOOD WATCH Flooding of and and/or rivers and streams is possible over the next 48 hours 2-5" OF RAIN IS EXPECTED To COME DOWN ON SATURDAY ACROSS WEST TENNESSEE. HEAVY RAIN ON TOP OF SATURATED GROUNDS & ALREADY SWOLLEN CREEK, RIVERS & STREAMS COULD LEAD to A BIG PROBLEM!'

Thursday and Friday will be dry this week but will also be quite cold. Highs on Thursday only made it up to the mid/upper 30s and overnight lows into Friday morning will fall into the mid 20s for the first time in a couple weeks. There will be no precipitation those days so we will not be seeing any snow or ice. A warm front will drift through on Friday and that will warm us back up into the evening with a return of the southeast winds. We should reach the low 50s on Friday and Friday night lows will fall to the mid 40s. There could be some rain coming back late Friday night but the heavy rain and next chances for storms will show up on Saturday and stick around all day long. Friday will start out with some sunshine but clouds will move in towards the back half of the day and stick around to kick off the weekend.

May be an image of map and text that says 'STORM TEAM WEATHER wbbjtv.com WBBJ 7 TOTAL RAINFALL FORECAST Sunday 6:00 3.2" 2.7" Union City 2.6" Tiptonville Martin 2.5" Dyersburg 4.0" Paris 4.5" Trenton 5.3" Alamo 3.1" Ripley 7.6" Huntingdon Camden 4.2" Brownsville 6.0" Covington 7.8" Jackson 4.9" Lexington 3.8" Parsons 3.3" Henderson 3.4" Bolivar 5.7" Somerville 4.5" Memphis 2.4" Selmer 2.0" Savannah'

THE WEEKEND:

The greatest threat for severe weather in a few weeks will be here on Saturday. As of now, the main concern looks to stay just south of West Tennessee but there is a really good chance we have some strong storm activity developing for some of us across the Mid South as well. The system is still a few days out but has already grabbed the attention of the Storm Prediction Center as they have issued a slight risk (2/5) for some of us in West Tennessee already. Saturday will be a cloudy day and the winds will be quite gusty and come out of the southwest. The winds will shift back to the northwest on Sunday! There could be some major flooding issues on Saturday for the areas that see over 3-4″ of rain.

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Saturday highs will reach the mid 60s and the dew point will be very high into the afternoon and evening helping to fuel the potential storms. A cold front will pass Saturday night dropping temperatures all the way down near freezing again by Sunday morning. Rainfall amounts are expected to be in the 2-4″ range on Saturday along in our viewing around. That additional rain, on top of already saturated grounds will likely lead to some flooding in low lying areas, river, creeks and streams across West Tennessee.

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Sunday will be dry and much cooler with highs struggling to even get out of the upper 30s. The sun should come back out Sunday late in the day as well. Sunday night lows will fall down to low to mid 20s making for a cold start to next week. Next week will start out cold on Monday but we will warm back up a bit for Tuesday. The next system will move through Tuesday night next week into Wednesday morning and that system will bring a potential return of winter precipitation (including snow and ice) back to the Mid South as well!