Weather Extra | Tornado alley alive means summery weekend at home [Video]

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt led its Friday newscast with a vicious tornado outbreak on the High Plains. Here at home we are immune from severe weather, thanks to favorable wind currents. Tony outlines the benign weather pattern locally for graduations, spring football and 5K runs.

It’s the last weekend of April and with it comes a forecast for mainly fair weather. Since it is the month of showers, we must expect a ground dampening at some point, but the overall flavor of the forecast is for fine weather for most outdoor activities. Still, the mention of a Saturday afternoon-evening thundershower must be respected for Saturday evening prom marches, especially in mountainous West Virginia.

This evening’s shower pattern looks anemic and mainly south of I-64 through the Coalfields. Now overnight as the air turns more humid, a flare up of showers with thunder is likely …