Storms Not Severe

Storms continue to drop south southeast over North Central Alabama tonight. There are two main clusters:

…one covers much of St. Clair County dropping into southern Calhoun and Talladega County. The heaviest rainfall extends from Ashville to Springville. There could be some hail around Springville right now, but most of it is probably melting before it reaches the ground. There is still quite a bit of lightning over the western extent of the storm, which extends into far northeastern Jefferson County around Argo.
…the other is over Lamar and Fayette Counties. The heaviest rainfall is over the county line northwest of Fayette. Good bit of lightning here as well.

But the storms are below severe limits. They have had a hard time getting organized thanks to a dry layer a decent capping inversion.

Some showers are trying to form across northern Jefferson County, being sparked by outflow from earlier storms in Walker County that produced the Marion County severe reports earlier.

A couple of the high resolutions models we like picked up on this early today and correctly predicted that the storms would not be able to become widespread in coverage. But with all of the instability available and all that dry air aloft, there was concern that damaging winds would be a problem.

There was some wind damage in northern Marion County with tree and power line damage around Haleyville. Nickel sized hail was also reported around Haleyville at 5:30.

The severe thunderstorm watch was canceled earlier for North Alabama and another watch is not expected for Central sections of the state.

In Georgia, storms are much stronger, and there are several severe thunderstorm warnings in effect, including one for the Atlanta Metro area.

Category: Alabama's Weather, Severe Weather