About five individual thunderstorms were in progress across Shelby county and moving generally west and WSW. One of those was just over the Jefferson County line in Extreme South Jefferson near McCalla.
One of the main storms in Shelby County was over the SE part near Columbiana and moving westward toward Interstate 65.
The NWS at Shelby County Airport got some heavy rain in a short time. (Scroll down to see the afternoon discussion posted by James)
It sure seems to me that Shelby County has cornered the market on thunderstorms in recent weeks. Bessemer got over eight inches of rain during July.
At 3:50 pm, the largest number of thunderstorms was over South Alabama mainly south of Montgomery.
The NWS issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Lee, Russell and Barbour County, in SE Alabama until 4:15
(Be sure and scroll down and check out the post, “Are We Getting Soft?” posted by James. It is an excellent discussion of some of the major Alabama heat waves going way back. One day I will add a short story about how kudzu was also involved!
