A nice outflow boundary is moving westward across eastern parts of the Birmingham metro at this hour. It will bring a freshening wind out of the east at 10-20 mph for a few minutes.
It is also enhancing thunderstorms in the Birmingham metro and points east.
Intense storms were in the Hoover area. Lots of lightning and torrential rains.
A house was struck by lightning in the Ivy Brook subdivision in Pelham.
Power poles are sparking and on fire in front of the Wal Mart in Pelham. Some street flooding reported.
Traffic lights out on hghway 119 between 31 and 65,.
Getting reports of power outages in Pelham and Hoover.
Storms are growing rapidly southeast of Birmingham from Columbiana and Wilsonville up to above Chelsea. These storms will spread over much of the Birmingham Metro in the next hour. Lightning really picking up.
Big storms moving across Chilton County now too. Lots of lightning with them.
So far nothing severe late this evening, although we could briefly go severe in Jefferson, northern Shelby and western St. Clair Counties.
