The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a Significant Weather Alert for Tuscaloosa County until 4:30. The strong thunderstorm was near the city of Tuscaloosa and moving north at 10 mph. Marble-size hail and winds up to 40 mph are possible in places like Tuscaloosa, Holt, Samantha and Lake Tuscaloosa.
At 3:42 p.m., marble-size hail about 1/2 inch in diameter was reported in Northport across the river from Tuscaloosa by the Tuscaloosa County EMA.
Thunderstorms were scattered around Alabama this afternoon, but a number of communities enjoyed a long break without rain.
Rain is not exactly the most popular weather event in Alabama these days, but we will still have scattered storms each day well into next week.
At 3:45 p.m., some of the stronger storms over the north half of the state were in parts of Cullman and Winston Counties and in North Walker County. The most numerous thunderstorms of all were down in SW Alabama, expecially from Monroe County northward into Marengo, Wilcox and Western Dallas Counties.
Over on the east side of the state, some of the stronger storms were over North Tallapoosa County and Chambers County. It seems that everything was moving almost due north and it has been that way all day.
On a regional note, the most numerous thunderstorms were aross SW and Central Georgia and over Western Arkansas.
The National Weather Service in Jackson has issued a Flash Flood Warning for a number of counties in SE Mississippi. Doppler radar indicated as much as 1 to 3 inches of rain just in the past hour.
