NWS/Birmingham is placing more West Alabama counties under a Significant Weather Alert. Newly added are:
Marengo County until 5:15
Perry County until 5:30
Greene and Hale Counties until 5:15
The Marengo County storm was approaching Demopolis, Jefferson, Old Spring Hill, Myrtle Wood, Providence and Nanafalia.
In Perry County, the strong storm was near Folsom or about 5 miles NW of Marion moving south slowly. It should affect Folsom, Marion and Hamburg.
A strong thunderstorm was along a line from SW of Cedarville to Demopolis. This is why Greene and Hale Counties are under a Significant Weather Alert. Locations affected will be Cedarville and Laneville.
In all these storms, winds could gust to 40 mph with dangerous cloud-to-ground lightning and downpours of rain.
MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS
In Jefferson County, 33/40 skywatcher Alston Keith reported intense lightning and heavy rain at Inverness.
While we are at it, these additional notes so we won’t have so many confusing posts.
* Strong thunderstorms across Winston and Cullman Counties in North/Central Alabama moving SW. They are lined up along US-278, the main east/west route across Cullman and Winston Counties.
* Strong storms in East Alabama from near Gadsden eastward across South Cherokee and North Cleburne County.
* Some fairly strong storms across North and West Shelby County.
* Way down in South Alabama, a line of thunderstorms extended from North Barbour County all the way over to south of Monroeville.
Everything moving generally southward.
