Published on: August 18, 2007 at 4:30 PM

Strong thunderstorms continue marching westward across Central Alabama late this afternoon.

At 4:30 pm, two of the stronger storms were over North Talladega County and near where Jefferson, Bibb and Tuscaloosa County join near Bucksville.
It is pouring near where I-59/20 crosses the Jefferson-Tuscaloosa County line.

NWS/Birmingham issued a Significant Weather Alert for Bibb, Jefferson and Tuscaloosa County until 5:15.

They did that because of s strong thunderstorm centered near Tannehill State Park (same storm as mentioned above) The storm is also about 8 miles SW of Bessemer.

Winds up to 50 mph can be expected along with much cloud-to-ground lightning (always very dangerous)

Communities that may be impacted by this storm:

McCalla
Tannehill State Park
Caffee Junction
Weller
Abernant

Other storms were over NE Shelby County.

Thunder heard in NE Trussville.

DAMAGE REPORT
5 miles west of Wilsonville in East Shelby County, EMA reports six trees uprooted and a meatal roof peeled from a porch. This happened near the junction of County Road 55 and Highway 25.