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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Morning Edition For Thursday May 7, 2009
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Head Down Under for an Outback Adventure
with SummerQuest at Hunter Street, June 1-5

It's summer and the kids are home from school with nothing to do.
Instead of leaving them to watch TV and play video games all day, you
can send them on a week-long Outback Adventure with SummerQuest!

Outback Adventure will be held at Hunter Street Baptist Church in
Hoover, June 1-5. At Outback Adventure, kids grades 1-6 will learn
about our great God as they take part in arts and crafts, sports
activities, Bible study, and corporate worship each day. Outback
Adventure is free, so bring a friend, family member or neighbor with
you.

Outback Adventure starts each morning at 8:30 a.m. and dismisses at
12:15 p.m. Registration is required, and you can register your kids at
www.kidquestonline.org. T-shirts are available for $7. For more
information, call Hunter Street, 205.985.7295 or visit www.hunterstreet.org
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...Warm and Humid Air Hangs Over Alabama...

SUMMER-LIKE WEATHER: Temperatures held in the 70s across much of
Alabama yesterday due to clouds and storms, but today we expect a
little more sunshine, which should push temperatures into the mid 80s
this afternoon. Dewpoints will remain high, meaning summer-like
humidity conditions, which also means potential for more scattered
showers and thunderstorms across our state. Most of them should come
during the peak of the daytime heating process this afternoon, and
some could be on the strong side. In fact, SPC has a pretty part of
Alabama in a slight severe weather risk (their standard risk) today;
the main threats should be from damaging winds and hail, but if we
have a few lingering boundaries around there could be an isolated
tornado threat. The severe weather should not be as widespread as
yesterday, and it seems like the most numerous storms this afternoon
should over the southern half of the state.

TOMORROW AND THE WEEKEND: Not much change; our weather will remain
warm and very humid, and each day there will be some risk of at least
a passing shower or thunderstorm. For now, it looks like the storms
tomorrow will be rather isolated, but then becoming a little more
numerous over the weekend as another surface boundary approaches from
the north. Highs will remain mostly in the 80s, about five degrees
above average values for early May in Alabama. There should be some
decent intervals of sunshine when storms around not around, so the
weekend won't be a complete wash-out.

YESTERDAY'S STORMS: I would imagine the guys at the National Weather
Service are about as exhausted as those of us in the TV weather
business. More survey crews will be needed today to assess damage from
yesterday's storms; some of the most significant damage was across
Tuscaloosa and Walker Counties, and based on viewer photographs there
is pretty much no doubt the damage in the Jasper/Boldo area in Walker
County was from a small tornado. To the north, the NWS in Huntsville
was able to identify a EF-2 tornado that caused significant property
damage along a 11 mile path across Limestone and Madison Counties in
the Tennessee Valley. Some of the most serious damage was in Madison,
which is just west of Huntsville. Flooding was also an issue in
places; our Skywatcher at Hamilton in Marion County reported 3.09"
yesterday; other totals included 2.82" at Holly Pond and 2.61" at
Scrougeout (northeast of Gadsden). Amounts over East Alabama were much
lighter; the total at Weaver was only 0.25".

ON THIS DATE IN 1840: A mile wide tornado destroys the Mississippi
River town of Natchez, Mississippi about noon. 317 are left dead in
Natchez alone. This was the worst tornado in United States history to
occur before the establishment of the Weather Bureau. Horses
reportedly were burst open by the storm.

James Spann
jspann@abc3340.com

ABC 33/40 7 Day Planner: http://cfc.abc3340.com/abc3340/7day.cfm
ABC 33/40 Weather Blog: http://www.alabamawx.com

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2009 SEC BASEBALL TOURNAMENT
MAY 20-24
REGIONS PARK STADIUM in Hoover
For Tickets, call (800) 732-4849 (800-SEC-4TIX)
or visit http://www.southtix.com/secbb.html
For Corporate Hospitality Packages, call (205) 977-9335

Here's your chance to see the best college baseball in the country,
right here in Hoover, Alabama! See the top eight teams in the SEC
compete for the tournament title over the course of this five day
event.

Reserved seats are going fast so be sure to order yours today at
(800) 732-4849 or by logging onto http://www.southtix.com/secbb.html
Opportunities still exist to entertain employees, clients or friends
in the Corporate Hospitality suite. Call (205) 977-9335 to inquire
about the various corporate hospitality packages.

Mark your calendars to go to Regions Park Stadium, May 20-24
to see some big time college baseball.

The 2009 SEC Baseball Tournament
THE BEST COLLEGE BASEBALL IN THE COUNTRY!!
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TODAY
Becoming partly sunny. A few scattered storms this afternoon.
Afternoon High 84
WIND: SW 6-12

FRIDAY
Partly to mostly sunny with isolated afternoon thunderstorms.
Morning Low 67 Afternoon High 87
WIND: SW 8-16

SATURDAY
Warm and humid. A few scattered showers and storms.
Morning Low 68 Afternoon High 84
WIND: SW 7-14

SUNDAY
Occasionally cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 80
WIND: NW 7-14

MONDAY
Partly sunny. An afternoon storm in a few spots.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 81
WIND: SW 6-12

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