Tornado Warning 17, NWS Birmingham, AL

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
555 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986

INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA WILL CAUSE DANGEROUS
FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLE STRONG WINDS
AND HAIL IN MARION COUNTY UNTIL ABOUT 7 PM. IF THE THUNDERSTORMS
GROW STRONGER...AN ACTUAL WARNING MAY BE ISSUED.

AT 5:55 PM...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS COVER MUCH OF WEST AND NORTH
MARION COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AFT 15 MPH. THEY WILL
BE MOVING ACROSS THE HAMILTON-HACKLEBURG AREA BEFORE 6:30.

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED INTO NORTHWEST CULLMAN
COUNTY WEAKENED AFTER CROSSING THE WINSTON/CULLMAN COUNTY
LINE.

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
605 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986

...ALABAMA STATE TROOPERS REPORT MARBLE SIZE HAIL 5 MILES
   WEST-NORTHWEST OF HAMILTON IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA'S MARIONQ
   COUNTY. THE HAIL OCCURED AT 5:50 PM CDT.

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
625 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986

...ALABAMA STATE TROOPERS REPORT MARBLE SIZE HAIL CONTINUING
   AT HAMILTON IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA'S MARION COUNTY. BY^ 6:25 PM
   THE HAIL HAD BEEN FALLING ABOUT 20 MINUTES. A FEW HAILSTONES
   WERE LARGER THAN MARBLE SIZE.

   THE HAIL WAS COVERING THE GROUND AT THE STATE TROOPER POST.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
635 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11:00
   OCLOCK TONIGHT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH AND WEST-CENTRAL
   ALABAMA...

AT 6:35 PM CDT...A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
NORTHWEST ALABAMA EXTENDED FROM EXTREME NORTH LAMAR COUNTY
THROUGH HAMILTON...HACKLEBURG AND PHIL CAMPBELL AND INTO
LAWRENCE COUNTY.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE CONTINUES A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LAWRENCE AND LIMESTONE COUNTY UNTIL 7PM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MAY BE NEEDED AT ANY MOMENT FOR
SOME OTHER COUNTIES.

THE THUNDERSTORMS IN MARION COUNTY ARE ALMOST SEVERE. ASo OF
6:25 PM...MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAD BEEN FALLING IN HAMILTON FOR
ABOUT 20 MINUTES AND ALABAMA STATE TROOPERS REPORTED THAT THE
GROUND WAS COVERED.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
715 PM CST SAT MAY 24 1986

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 209 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM CST
FOR COOSA COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA.

WEATHER RADAR SHOWS VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER THE
NORTHWEST CORNER OF ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
EAST ABOUT 20 MPH.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE DURING THE PAST
HOUR..HOWEVER PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
800 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11:00
   OCLOCK TONIGHT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH AND WEST-CENTRAL
   ALABAMA...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MARION AND WINSTON COUNTY
EXPIRED AT 8 PM AND IS NOT BEING EXTENDED AT THIS TIME.

AT 8 PM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR
SULLIGENT IN NORTH LAMAR COUNTY...NORTHEAST TO DOUBLE SPRINGS
...THEN ACROSS NORTHWEST CULLMAN COUNTY AND INTO THE
TENNESSEE VALLEY.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ALTHOUGH THE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED A LITTLE THEY ARE STILL CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS
PASSED HUNTSVILLE AIRPORT...THEY PRODUCED WINDS OF AT LEAST
46 MPH.