Severe Thunderstorm Warning

While that broad area of showers and thunderstorms over North Alabama is not as strong, some individual thunderstorms in West Alabama have intensified. There is a very strong thunderstorm over Greene County approaching the Eutaw area. The NWS in Birmingham has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for North-Central Sumter County in West-Central Alabama until 4:45. The thunderstorm was located near Gainesville and moving NE at 10. It may have penny-size hail and wind gusts to 60. It should be near Gainesville soon.

At 4:06 this afternoon, several trees were reported down near the Blanche community in Cherokee County. At 4:20 p.m., a thunderstorm was forming along the Jefferson-St. Clair County line. Thunder was heard in NE Trussville.