Every forecast across West Alabama, highway-clear.
Official National Weather Service forecasts for Tuscaloosa and West Alabama — ten counties from the Druid City and Northport down the Black Warrior through Eutaw and Demopolis to the Mississippi line, and north to Fayette and Vernon.
Every Alabama region shares one system — the same maps, the same live radar, the same climate record. Tuscaloosa knows exactly what this is. The April 27, 2011 tornado came through the city on the ground for 80 miles, and the same I-20/59 corridor steers the outbreaks every spring and again in late autumn. West of here the Black Belt prairie is flat, dark and poorly drained, and it floods as fast as it dries.