Thunderstorm complex over West Alabama is pushing east southeast at 30 mph this morning.
It extends from near Gordo and Reform at 5:35, curving down to Union Boligee and Gainesville.
This part of the storm has good potential to produce a few damaging wind gusts. As you can see on the radar, it haa taken on the all too familiar comma shape of a mesoscale covective vortex, and as we have seen, those can be long lived wind producers.
Doppler radar shows strong winds of nearly 60 mph that could easily be reaching the ground.
Still no reports of any damage, but it is a sleepy West Alabama morning and not many people are up. They should be in the warning areas, inside a room away from windows and area trees that could fall or shed a limb on their homes.
It is crossing I-59 between Union and Epes, but south of Union, it isn’t severe, just heavy rain, gusty winds and lightning.
This storm will affect Bibb, Shelby and Chilton Counties next. It is a little weaker, but it should hold together long enough for warnings to be required for parts of those counties.
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BULLETIN – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
527 AM CDT SAT AUG 18 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
NORTHERN GREENE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA…
NORTHERN HALE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA…
SOUTHEASTERN PICKENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA…
SOUTHWESTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA…
* UNTIL 615 AM CDT
* AT 527 AM CDT…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A LINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
GORDO TO BENEVOLA TO WEST GREENE…AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
NORTHPORT…TUSCALOOSA…HOLT…MANTUA…UNION…JENA…KNOXVILLE
AND LAKE LURLEEN STATE PARK.
THIS INCLUDES…
INTERSTATE 20 EXIT NUMBERS 45 THROUGH 76…
