First the warnings…
Severe thunderstorm warning for extreme SE Chilton County has been cancelled. The storm has weakened a bit and shifted into Elmore County…This storm has produced over 600 lightning strikes in the past hour. It is drifting into northwestern Elmore County…It is along and east of US-31 southeast of Verbena…
Sector 1 – Northwest of Birmingham:
…earlier heavy storms weakened into area of showers from Lamar through Fayette into northern Tuscaloosa and southern Walker Counties…
…activity over western Jefferson County weakening…from west of Airport out into western sections of County. Hevaiest rain just west of Fultondale…pulsing down…
Sector 2 – Southwest of Birmingham:
…heavy storm has developed over NW Shelby County NW of Maylene and W of Helena…caused by two intersecting outflow boundaries…this storm means business…watch out for the rain and lightning…could produce downburst winds…
…watch the boundary moving south out of dying Tuscaloosa County storms…it is south of interstate…and could fire more storms in southern Tuscaloosa and Bibb Counties…
Sector 3 – Southeast of Birmingham:
…we’ve got the Chilton/Elmore storm and another potent little storm west of Clanton…
…little storm pulsed up near Lineville, moving toward Ashland…but weakening already…they are pulse storms remember…
Sector 4 – Northeast of Birmingham:
…activity oprganizing in Calhoun and Cleburne Counties…approaching Anniston and crossing interstate east of Oxford…
…twin storms moving south out of Madison County into Morgan and Marshall Counties…
Be alert for rapid storm development into the evening hours, with a quick onset of torrential rains, deadly lightning and the possibility of damaging microburst winds…
