BULLETIN – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
527 AM CST Sat Dec 11 2021
The National Weather Service in Huntsville Alabama has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Lauderdale County in northwestern Alabama…
Colbert County in northwestern Alabama…
Franklin County in northwestern Alabama…
* Until 600 AM CST.
* At 527 AM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 7 miles north of St. Florian to near Red Bay, moving
southeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD…70 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE…Radar indicated.
IMPACT…Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to
mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include…
Florence, Muscle Shoals, Russellville, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Red
Bay, Killen, Cherokee, Littleville and Lexington.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature’s leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1100 AM CST for north central
and northwestern Alabama.
