STrongest storm now over I-20 between Oxford and Lincoln…moving SE…severe thunderstorm warning contines for NE Talladega…southern Calhoun, northern Clay and SW Cleburne…until 1:45 p.m. Lots of lightning and the potential for damaging winds as well as hail. VIL indicated at 67 kg/m2. That same VIL produced quarter sized hail earlier in Jefferson and St. Clair Counties.
Severe thunderstorm warning continues for St. Clair and northern Talladega Counties has been canceled…this storm has weakened. The strongest part of the storm is along US-231 south of Ashville.
Intensifying storms are indicated from Columbiana in Shelby County back to Calera then to between North Bibb and WEst Blocton then to Coaling and Vance in Tuscaloosa County.
Other developing storms are over West Alabama’s Pickens, Greene, Sumter, Hale and Marengo Counties. Storms over southern Tennessee are moving southeast and will affect North Alabama in a couple of hours.
Back upstream…a huge complex of storms is over eastern Oklahoma and NW Arkansas. This complex may affect us later tonight.
