The Severe Thunderstorm Warning for St. Clair and Etowah Counties in NE Alabama expired at 5:00 p.m. This has been replaced by a Significant Weather Alert for Calhoun, Etowah and St. Clair Counties until 6:00 p.m. Radar shows some very heavy rain along the St. Clair/Etowah County line moving east and NE toward Attalla, Rainbow City and Gadsden. In St. Clair County, some of the heavier rain was approaching Ashville and Ragland.
Further south quite a few strong storms over Clay County are producing locally heavy rain.
Still other strong storms in extreme NE Alabama over Jackson and DeKalb Counties.
REPORTS
* At 3:35 p.m., there was thunderstorm wind damage 1 mile SSE of Decatur. A tree, which had been weakened by a lightning strike, came down onto a home blowing out eight windows.
* At 3:12 p.m., seven miles SW of Decatur, two trees were uprooted between Neel and Mud Tavern SW of Decatur.
