Two Main Areas of Hail; Radar Update

Bill Murray | January 11, 2014 @ 5:55 am

Here are our two main storms producing hail this morning.

The image is of the Vertically Integrated Liquid product from the NWS-88D Doppler radar out of Atlanta.

One is crossing I-20 between Lincoln and Anniston. It produce quarter sized hail and 40 mph wind gusts near Stemley at 5:31 according to a report to James via Twitter. You can see that storm report posted on this Gibson Ridge radar grab just northwest of the city of Talladega.

The other hail core is moving into Georgia and the NWS in Atlanta has laid out a severe thunderstorm warning along its projected path in their counties.

In Central Alabama, our band of rain and storms continues marching east. Here is the radar at 5:55:

Severe weather is expected later today from Tallahassee and Jacksonville FL up the East Coast to Delaware as this system keep pushing eastward. Here is the SPC Day One Severe Weather Outlook:

Here is a summary of report from the NWS Birmingham from overnight:

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT…SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
537 AM CST SAT JAN 11 2014

..TIME… …EVENT… …CITY LOCATION… …LAT.LON…
..DATE… ….MAG…. ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. …SOURCE….
..REMARKS..

1212 AM HAIL PIEDMONT 33.93N 85.62W
01/11/2014 E0.25 INCH CALHOUN AL PUBLIC

0103 AM HAIL HACKLEBURG 34.27N 87.83W
01/11/2014 E0.25 INCH MARION AL FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

0120 AM LIGHTNING 2 S HODGES 34.30N 87.93W
01/11/2014 MARION AL FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

A POWER POLE WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AND KNOCKED DOWN.

0120 AM LIGHTNING HAMILTON 34.14N 87.98W
01/11/2014 MARION AL FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

LIGHTNING STRUCK A SHED AND CAUSED A FIRE.

0122 AM LIGHTNING HALEYVILLE 34.24N 87.62W
01/11/2014 WINSTON AL AMATEUR RADIO

A TREE WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AND DOWN IN THE SAME AREA
NEAR POLE POLE…NEAR AIRPORT ROAD.

0123 AM HAIL HALEYVILLE 34.24N 87.62W
01/11/2014 E0.25 INCH WINSTON AL PUBLIC

0450 AM HAIL ENSLEY 33.51N 86.89W
01/11/2014 E0.75 INCH JEFFERSON AL AMATEUR RADIO

0521 AM HAIL 4 N ANNISTON 33.72N 85.81W
01/11/2014 E0.88 INCH CALHOUN AL FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

0524 AM HAIL 3 NE ANNISTON 33.69N 85.78W
01/11/2014 E1.00 INCH CALHOUN AL BROADCAST MEDIA

Category: Alabama's Weather, Severe Weather

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