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Alabama Weather Situation Update

| April 19, 2015 @ 5:18 pm

Posted 5:18 p.m. Sunday

The storm that prompted the severe thunderstorm warning for St. Clair County no longer looks severe, so the NWS went with the lesser Significant Weather Advisory for northeastern Talladega County.

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It is part of a broken arc of thunderstorms associated with a pronounced upper level disturbance that you can see in this radar view. There are severe thunderstorm warnings in Northeast Alabama closer to the comma head of the disturbance.

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Looking back to the west, you can see severe thunderstorm watches (light blue) and severe thunderstorm warnings (yellow) associated with the line of intense storms that has developed in the past hour or so ahead of a strong cold front. These storms will affect Alabama later tonight and could produce severe weather including damaging winds and hail. An isolated tornado is not out of the question.

STORM SURVEY REPORT
John DeBlock from the NWS reports that the survey team has found EF1 tornado damage in Russell County.

He reports:
Good Evening! We are still on the road in Russell County surveying storm damage. Thus far, we apcan confirm an EF-1 Tornado that touched down just west of Oswichee along AL-165, and travelled Northeast to the Georgia State Line/Chattahoochee, approximately 3.5 miles long. We are currently back tracking to Pittsview, then to the Barbour County line. Russell County Sheriff’s deputies have confirmed trees down on Perry Wells Road, which we strongly suspect is tornado damage. It does not appear that we can connect the damage all the way from one end of the county to another. We will update as information becomes available.

An additional crew will survey the Cherokee County damage tomorrow.

Category: Alabama's Weather, Severe Weather

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