UPDATE 6:00 PM
That nasty storm in northeastern Tuscaloosa County is in the process of “collapsing” meaning that all the updraft can no longer support all that rain and hail and the precipitation is rushing to the earth. This is when the threat of damaging winds is greatest.
Folks from Lake View to Caffee Junction to Woodstock and West Blocton should be especially alert.
The storm is near Woodstock. It will be pushing into Jefferson County shortly.
The NWS is getting several reports of dime to penny size hail from the storm.
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BULLETIN – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
536 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
NORTHERN BIBB COUNTY IN ALABAMA…
EAST CENTRAL TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA…
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 536 PM CDT…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL…AND DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COALING…
OR 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLT…AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
BROOKWOOD…BEVILLE LOCK AND DAM…VANCE…ABERNANT…WOODSTOCK
JUNCTION…WEST BLOCTON…TANNEHILL IRONWORKS STATE PARK AND LAKE
VIEW.
THIS INCLUDES…
INTERSTATE 20 EXIT NUMBERS 79 THROUGH 100…
