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Flooding Threat Increasing Marion/Winston
Dangerous situation setting up over Northwest Alabama’s Marion and Winston Counties where thunderstorms that have moved into from the north will be merging with the thunderstorms coming down I-22 and producing very efficient rainmaking storms. Rainfall rates will be near … Continue reading
MCD from SPC, Watch Expected for West Alabama
The SPC has issued a mesoscale discussion which is in line with my update from a few minutes ago. They do mention that they will likely issue a severe thunderstorm watch for much of West Alabama later. These is a … Continue reading
Active Day Today
At least two waves of thunderstorms are in store for Alabama today. The first is dropping southward across North and Northeast Alabama right now. It extends along a northwest to southeast line from Russellville in Franklin County to south of … Continue reading
Jefferson/Shelby Severe Canceled
The severe thunderstorm warning for Jefferson/Shelby Counties has been canceled. The storm has weakened. The flash flood warning remains in effect. Strong storms continue along I-20 between Moody and Pell City. New storms have developed between Vincent/Harpersville and Childersburg. FLOODING … Continue reading
Angry Storms Pushing South
A broken line of intense storms extends from west of Clanton to south of Alex City to Lafayette this evening. Severe thunderstorm warnings are in effect ahead of the storms. They are pushing south at 20 mph. The storms have … Continue reading
Beautiful Mammatus Clouds
Beautiful mammatus clouds north of Calera this evening from the intense storms that are across western Bibb, Chilton, Coosa, Tallapoosa and Chambers. Mammatus clouds are caused by descending pockets of air on the underside of a thunderstorm anvil cloud.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning Ahead of the Line
Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Autauga, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Randolph, Tallapoosa [AL] till 6:15 PM CDT
Dangerous Storms
Intense thunderstorms are pushing south across northern Bibb and Shelby into Talladega Counties at this hour. The strongest storms extend from Sylacauga to Columbiana to Pelham to West Blocton.. There have been numerous reports of damaging winds across Shelby County. … Continue reading
Numerous Reports of Damage in Shelby County
Numerous reports of damage across Shelby County from the intense stohn rms. Here are some of them courtesy of John Talbot… …Highway 17 in Helena…tree down at Cloverleaf Road …transformer fire reported on Massey Road in Saginaw …structure fire on … Continue reading
Lots of Trees Down…
Lots of trees down from the storms across North and Central Alabama this afternoon. NEW WARNING Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Bibb, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Randolph, Shelby, Talladega, Tallapoosa [AL] till 5:30 PM CDT A line of intense storms continues … Continue reading
