Published on: January 5, 2009 at 1:20 AM

SPOT REPORTS FROM 33/40 SKYWATCHERS AND BLOG COMMENTS:

* 4 to 5 minutes of pea-size hail just south of Taylorville between 11:25 and 11:40 pm with very intense lightning. Location was just south of the interstate just off highway 69S near Plantation.

* 12:10 am, Jeff reports widespread power outage in Alabaster

* 12:18 am report from Tuscaloosa area: “1.85 inches of rain just under one hour at Ashley Hill in Tuscaloosa. (Specific location is the Woodlands subdivision directly across Hargrove Road