Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Birmingham, AL

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
130 PM CST THU MAR 18 1987

...PUBLIC REPORTED SMALL HAIL...ABOUT ONE FOURTH INCH IN DIAMETER
   AT FULTONDALE AT 110 CST THIS AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH THE HAILL
   WAS SMALL...THERE WAS A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF IT...NEARLY
   COVERING THE GROUND.

   FULTONDALE IS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY JUST NORTH OF THE
   BIRMINGHAM CITY LIMITS.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
155 PM CST WED MAR 18 1987

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SEVERAL AREAS OF NORTHEAST
ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON.

BETWEEN NOW AND ABOUT 230 THIS AFTERNOON...THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING AREAS...

...ETOWAH COUNTY...INCLUDING THE GADSDEN AREA

...EASTERN CLAY COUNTY INCLUDING THE LINEVILLE AREA AND
   NORTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY.

AT 155...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR ASHLAND IN
CLAY COUNTY...ALONG THE ST CLAIR/ETOWAH COUNTY LINE SOUTHWEST
OF GADSDEN AND OVER NORTHWEST CULLMAN COUNTY IN THE
BATTLEGROUND COMMUNITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE
STRONG WINDS AND SOME HAIL AS THEY MOVE NORzTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
155 PM CST THU MAR 18 1987

...THE BIRMINGHAM AMATEUR RADIO CLUB REPORTS HAIL AT 250 PM
   IN BLUFF PARK. THIS IS ON SHADES MOUNTAIN JUST SOUTH OF
   BIRMINGHAM. MOST OF IT WAS SMALL...HOWEVER...A CONSIDERABLE
   AMOUNT WAS MARBLE SIZE.

...AT 252 PM CST...PUBLIC REPORTS HAIL ONE FOURTH TO ONE HALF
   INCH IN DIAMETER AT EASTWOOD MALL...ALONG THE EASTERN EDGE
   OF BIRMINGHAM.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
305 PM CST WED MAR 18 1987

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE BIRMINGHAM AREA WERE PRODUCING
HAIL AT BLUFF PARK AND EASTWOOD MALL JUST BEFORE 3 PM CST.
SOME OF THE HAIL WAS MARBLE SIZE.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE SOUTH AND EAST
EDGE OF THE CITY. THEY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH EAST
JEFFERSON AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES BETWEEN 3PM AND 4 PM.

OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH BLOUNT COUNTY NORTH
OF ONEONTA MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY
MOVE NORTHEAST POSSIBLY INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST ETOWAH
COUNTY.

STILL ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE NORTH EDGE
OF CULLMAN COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF CULLMAN.

...BECAUSE OF COLD AIR ALOFT...IT DOES NOT TAKE A VERY STRONG
   THUNDERSTORM TO PRODUCE SMALL TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL TODAY.
   MANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY THAT HAD HAIL GO UP TO
   A HEIGHT OF ONLY 25 THOUSAND FEET. NORMALLY THIS WOULD
   BE ONLY AN ORDINARY MODERATE THUNDERSHOWER.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY, AL
320 PM CST WED MAR 18 1987

AT 315 PM CST MONTGOMERY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
10 TO 20 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM BIRMINGHAM SOUTH ACROSS SELMA TO
NEAR WHATLEY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE
LOCATED JUST NORTHEAST OF SELMA AND 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF WHATLEY.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH AND THE
STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY
RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND
POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.

THIS RAIN AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY CONTINUE OVER THE
AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP.