Thunderstorms all across the Tennessee Valley of North Alabama early this morning. Lots of lightning and dumping very heavy rain. Individual storms moving ESE but the entire line (or zone) of storms easing southward also.
The Storm Prediction Center has virtually all of Alabama under a slight risk of severe weather today and tonight.
Here is a warning from NWS/Huntsville:
BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
505 AM CDT SUN JUL 5 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
MORGAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA…
* UNTIL 545 AM CDT
* AT 503 AM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BASHAM…OR JUST SOUTH OF
DECATUR…AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
FLINT CITY…
PRICEVILLE…HARTSELLE…
LEESDALE…
SOMERVILLE…
FLORETTE…VALHERMOSO SPRINGS…
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY…A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED…ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE…SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
