NWS extended the Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Shelby County until 4:30 am mainly for the SE part of the county.
At 4:15 am, a long curved line of intense thunderstorms extended from Cherokee County in NE Alabama down through East Calhoun, SW Cleburne, Clay, South Talladega and into East Shelby.
If you are in those areas consider the storms possibly severe. The line of storms moving quickly east.
Numerous reports of large hail, high winds and extremely dangerous lightning.
Recent reports of hail the size of quarters in Montevallo, 5 miles south of Alabaster and in Columbiana, all in Shelby County.
These severe storms have moved east of such counties as:
Cullman
Blount
Jefferson
Tuscaloosa
Walker
Hale
Winston
and areas westward (just to name a few)
To our east, a Moderate Risk is posted today for North Georgia into South Carolina. This includes the Atlanta area. They certainly don’t welcome that news.
