…Etowah County…numerous trees down in the Whorton Bend and Southside Communities in Etowah County…also Rainbow City…
…Etowah County…JB’s son who is a fireman…reports 60 mph wind gusts and unusually severe lightning…
…Etowah County…quarter size hail…45 mph wind gust.
…Etowah…trees blocking AL-77 near Southside…crews working to clear road…hail (dime size) falling in Southside…nickel size hail on Cedar Circle in Southside…
…Tuscaloosa County…golf ball size hail at 624 p.m. at Samantha…
Warnings:
Calhoun/Etowah/St. Clair til 7:00 p.m….storm is backbuilding west toward Ashville and spreading south toward Anniston and Lincoln, Hobson City and Oxford.
Bibb/Hale/Tuscaloosa til 715 p.m…storm passing between Eoline and Duncanville…storms north of Gordon and along AL-171 in NW Tuscaloosa County….closing in on City of Tuscaloosa…watch out around Gordo…a cell merger will occur there and the result will be a very intense flare up of the storm.
Lamar and Fayette Counties…til 715…very intense storm near Vernon…moving south toward Millport…Kennedy and Belk.
Severe thunderstorm watch till midnight…has been expanded southwestward to include Bibb, Greene, Hale, Perry and SUmter Counties…other Central Alabama Counties include: Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Etowah, Fayette, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Randolph, Shelby, St. Clair, Talladega, Tuscaloosa, Walker, and Winston. Goes until midnight.
There is a flood advisory for Etowah and Calhoun Counties.
