Strong Storms in the Birmingham Metro, Not Severe, But Lightning, Gusty Winds, Rain
Strong storms across the Birmingham Metro area are producing heavy rain, lightning and gusty winds.
The strongest storms are south of Pell City right now with others extending from Bessemer to Homewood, and east of US-280 southeast of Lake Purdy.
Significant weather alerts are depicted as peach colored polygons on the radar image.
The storms aren’t severe but they have gusty winds. Winds gusted to 42 mph at the Birmingham Airport at 1:07 p.m. but they haven’t received very much rain.
I have picked up 0.52″ in Vestavia and it is still raining heavily at 1:56 p.m.
Radar estimates show generally less than 0.5 inches per hour, but there are likely some one inch amounts so far in the areas west of US-280, especially west of I-65.
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