What a morning?  We were covered up with hail reports.  When you have a moment – you should checkout our hail pictures on myfoxal.com
Looks like our upper-level low will continue to rotate just to the north of us over the next 24 hours.  It’s possible higher elevations of the Tennessee Valley may even see a [...]

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Per amateur radio – trees down at the 3800 block of Steele Street in Hamilton, windows blown out of a building in Hamilton on military street.  Bear Creek in Marion co. – trained spotters reporting tennis ball size hail.

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We’re waking up to rumbles of thunder.  The primary threat this morning will be large hail and damaging winds.  We’ve already received reports of hail the size of golfballs in the Hamilton area this morning.  There is a minimal risk of tornadoes with these thunderstorms.  However, I still think there is a significant wind threat.  [...]

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Primary threat will be hail and winds up to 70mph.  We’ll keep you updated from the Fox 6 StormWarn Center.

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THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
  
          WESTERN ALABAMA
          CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  
   EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING FROM 1145 PM
   UNTIL 500 AM CST.
  
   HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER…THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 65
   MPH…AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
  
   THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM [...]

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Expect the rumble of thunder during the overnight hours if you live in Marion, Lamar, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, or Sumter Counties.  The thunderstorms will likely produce frequent lightning, gusty winds, and hail.  Make sure you weather radios are on and functioning.  This line of storms will move across the state through Friday morning.  A few storms [...]

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Let’s get ready to rock and roll with one more round of strong/severe storms across much of the state.  This system will be a bit different.  It’s a fast mover and we don’t anticipate the flooding issues we had with the system Wednesday.  Expect a more traditional squall-line.  A line of thunderstorms entering the state [...]

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Morning rain, then decreasing clouds today.  Another round of showers with a chance of isolated storms on Friday.  Saturday brings a slight chance of showers.  Sunday through much of next week we are expecting variably cloudy to partly cloudy skies.
Mickey Ferguson, FOX6 Weather
myfoxal.com    myfoxstorm.com

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The focus will be on East Alabama tomorrow with a risk of strong to severe storms.  The primary threats will be hail and damaging winds.  We’ll keep you updated.
James-Paul Dice
Fox 6 Chief Meteorologist

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The NWS in Birmingham, in coordination with the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK, has decided to drop all Alabama counties from the existing Tornado Watch. There are numerous storms to our west in MS, however, so those will need to be monitored as we head towards morning.
Jason Kelley
Fox6 Meteorologist
jkelley@wbrc.com

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