At 2:30 p.m., radar indicates showers and thunderstorms in four main concentrations across Alabama…
…over St. Clair County…around Ashville…moving north and northeast toward Oneonta and Gadsden…starting to get some indications of good hail in the cell southwest of Ashville…
…over East Alabama over eastern Calhoun, Clebrune and Randolph Counties…much of this activity is in Carroll County Georgia now…around Carrollton…
…over West Alabama’s Sumter County…with the biggest cell south of York…
…over Northwest Alabama’s Franklin and Lawrence Counties…with some good lightning in those cells…
New cells are forming in the Jefferson County area with a good cell between Peasant Grove and Hueytown.
Expect heavy rain from these cells, with deadly lightning. The biggest storms will produce marginally severe hail the size of pennies or larger.
Temperatures are warm…Justin Gentry in Jemison reports 80F. It is 79F at Anniston. It was 75F at Birmingham and 76F at the NWS in Shelby County.
The storms will continue into the evening hours. With the approach of an upper level disturbance from Mississippi, even greater concentrations of storms may occur from about Sumter and Marengo County over to Montgomery and Columbus GA later this afternoon.
