Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Much of Shelby County

LATE REPORT: At 8:31 p.m. trees were rre[prted down in Mt. Laurel in northern Shelby County.

A flood advisory has been issued for parts of Tuscaloosa, Jefferson and Shelby Counties. We have picked up 1.00 inch of rain off Altadena Rd in Vestavia. This goes with the 1.08 inches we received yesterday. The BHM Airport picked up 0.96 inches. Some flights were diverted a little earlier because of the strong storm. Some power was reportedly out that the airport.

ORIGINAL POST
The storm that formed over eastern Jefferson County produced wind damage around Leeds, including a home entrapment. Leeds FD has invoked mutual aid requesting heavy equipment.

The storm is propagating south southwestward along an outlow boundary that pushed in from the east from storms earlier over East Alabama.

Be ready for intense lightning, torrential rains and damaging wind gusts as the storm keeps building south southwestward. Street flooding is being reported in Mountain Brook.

Areas from Pelham and Alabaster to Chelsea and Westover are under the gun.

Other storms are over northern Tuscaloosa County, and should move to just north of the cities of Tuscaloosa and Nortport in the next hour.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA…

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 829 PM CDT…SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR MOUNT LAUREL TO OAK MOUNTAIN STATE PARK…
MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

HAZARD…60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE…RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT…HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS…SIDING AND TREES.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
HOOVER…ALABASTER…PELHAM…HELENA…CALERA…CHELSEA…
CHILDERSBURG…COLUMBIANA…WILSONVILLE…INDIAN SPRINGS VILLAGE…
VINCENT…HARPERSVILLE…WESTOVER…LAKE PURDY…GREYSTONE…
MEADOWBROOK…OAK MOUNTAIN STATE PARK…SHELBY COUNTY AIRPORT…
FOWLER LAKE AND MOUNT LAUREL.

Category: Severe Weather