Stubborn Storms

Those thunderstorms over near the Georgia border just won’t go away. They seem to diminish and then redevelop over the same general area.

Up in extreme NE Alabama, the NWS/Huntsville posted a Significant Weather Alert for DeKalb County until 4:15. This was mainly because of a strong thunderstorm 10 miles SE of Ider or about 12 miles NE of Ft. Payne and it was moving NW at 7 mph. This storm could produce 1/2 inch diameter hail, winds up to 50 mph, and frequent cloud-to-ground lightning. It should affect the Mentone, Hammondville and Sulphur Springs areas. At 3:30 p.m., the DeKalb County EMA Office reported 1/2 inch in diameter atop Lookout Mountain at Mentone.

Meanwhile, further south, Chad Gregory, the 33/40 skywatcher for Coldwater, just returned from Dearmandville and he saw huge cloud formations with towering cumulus clouds now as far west as Coldwater. Lightning was visible over Coldwater Mountain 1/2 mile east of his location. Some of those storms were building down into NE Clay County.

Way down in SW Alabama, a separate family of showers and thunderstorms was moving toward the SE. They extended all the way from Sumter County near Livingston down into the extreme SW part of the state and the strongest ones were moving into extreme North Baldwin County and approaching Conecuh and Escambia Counties, including the Evergreen/Brewton areas.

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