A passing cold front sparked off several severe thunderstorms in Central Alabama.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS BMX wrote it up.
A passing cold front sparked off several severe thunderstorms in Central Alabama.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 7, 2:39 PM CST, 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 239 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT... AT 20Z A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA EXTENDING FROM ONEONTA TO BIRMINGHAM TO SELMA. THE COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS IS JUST TO THE WEST. THERE IS 60 PLUS DEGREE DEW POINTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FRONT ALL ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA. AT ANB AT 20Z IT WAS 71 OVER 66 AND AT TOI IT WAS 72 OVER 68. SEVERE STORMS ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20/59 CORRIDOR WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 8 PM TONIGHT. THE SAVING FACTOR COULD BE THAT IS IS QUITE WARM ALOFT KEEPING THE INSTABILITY IN CHECK. ONCE THE FRONT EXITS THE AREA TOMORROW MORNING MORE STABLE AND COOLER AIR WILL FILTER IN AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST. TONIGHT...STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND WILL HAVE CATEGORICAL POPS FOR THE EAST TO SLIGHT CHANCE WEST. THERE WILL BE GUSTY WINDS ON THE BACK SIDE OF THIS FRONT AND IT WILL BE CLOSE TO LAKE WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA LATE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW. AS OF THIS TIME WILL ALLOW THE EVENING SHIFT AND MIDNIGHT SHIFT TO RE-EVALUATE THE NEED TO ISSUE A LAKE WIND ADVISORY. STARTING TOMORROW IT WILL BE DRY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. CLOUDS WILL CLEAR OUT TOMORROW LEAVING A TEMPERATURE FORECAST. A SECONDARY DRY FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. MORNING LOWS WEDNESDAY MORNING WILL BE THE COLDEST IN A WHILE WITH MOST LOCATIONS GOING BELOW FREEZING. .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... THE HIGH PRESSURE THAT HAS BEEN ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST WILL SLIDE EAST ON THURSDAY AS THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM SLOWLY MOVES OUT OF THE ROCKIES. GOOD SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL BE PRESENT ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS STARTING THURSDAY NIGHT AS THE ATMOSPHERE BECOMES MORE MOIST FROM THE TOP DOWN. STARTING SATURDAY WILL INCREASE THE RAIN TO CHANCE AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO WESTERN ALABAMA. ADDED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS FOR SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY WITH THE COLD FRONT. DIDN/T GO FAR FROM GUIDANCE FOR TEMPERATURES. && .AVIATION...18Z DISCUSSION. COLD FRONT APPROACHING TCL AS OF 18Z. ITS EASTWARD PROGRESSION MIGHT BE A LITTLE FASTER THAN ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATED...SO A FASTER ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE TIME OF THUNDERSTORMS THAN PREVIOUS TAFS. POST FRONTAL SHOWERS NOT THAT EXPANSIVE MAYBE 75 TO 100 MILES BEHIND THE FRONT. THIS GENERAL TREND SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE EVENT. ADDITIONALLY...SURFACE WINDS HAVE INCREASED ENOUGH TO REMOVE WIND SHEAR. IN SHORT...IFR TO MVFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH AT LEAST 10Z WITH CLEARING BY 15Z. THERE IS ABOUT A TWO HOUR WINDOW AS THE FRONT PASSES BY EACH LOCATION FOR THUNDERSTORMS...THEN LIGHT SHOWERS FOLLOWED BY A SLOW CLEARING PROCESS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GADSDEN 39 51 29 49 28 / 60 0 0 0 0 ANNISTON 45 51 31 51 25 / 80 0 0 0 0 BIRMINGHAM 40 49 32 53 28 / 60 0 0 0 0 TUSCALOOSA 42 55 32 54 29 / 50 0 0 0 0 CALERA 43 52 34 52 28 / 70 0 0 0 0 AUBURN 46 54 34 52 27 / 90 0 0 0 0 MONTGOMERY 45 56 31 57 27 / 90 0 0 0 0 TROY 46 56 29 54 30 / 90 0 0 0 0 && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. && 80/80/88
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1215 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ALZ031-071845- GREENE- 1215 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR GREENE COUNTY UNTIL 1245 PM CST... ...WINDS 35 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE FROM AN APPROACHING THUNDERSTORM... ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE FROM AN APPROACHING THUNDERSTORM... AT 1212 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM OVER CLINTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND NEAR CLINTON...UNION AND MANTUA THROUGH 1245 PM CST. THE PRIMARY THREAT IS STRONG GUSTY WIND OF 35 TO 45 MPH. WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE WILL BREAK OFF SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED OBJECTS SUCH AS LAWN FURNITURE AND TRASH CANS. IF WEATHER PERMITS...SECURE LOOSE ARTICLES BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1235 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ALZ023-071915- TUSCALOOSA- 1235 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR TUSCALOOSA COUNTY UNTIL 115 PM CST... ...WINDS 35 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE FROM AN APPROACHING THUNDERSTORM... ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE FROM AN APPROACHING THUNDERSTORM... AT 1233 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERTORM WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND NEAR FOSTERS...TUSCALOOSA... NORTHPORT...HOLT AND KELLERMAN THROUGH 115 PM CST. THE PRIMARY THREATS ARE STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND MINOR FLOODING. STRONG WINDS WILL BREAK OFF SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED OBJECTS SUCH AS LAWN FURNITURE AND TRASH CANS.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1254 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ALZ030-031-071945- GREENE-SUMTER- 1254 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR SUMTER AND GREENE COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM CST... ...WINDS 35 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR ARE LIKELY FROM APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS... ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY FROM APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS... AT 1250 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CLINTON TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF YORK... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND NEAR YORK... GAINESVILLE...LIVINGSTON...EPES...CLINTON...BOLIGEE AND EUTAW THROUGH 145 PM CST. THE PRIMARY THREAT IS STRONG GUSTY WIND OF 35 TO 45 MPH. WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE WILL BREAK OFF SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED OBJECTS SUCH AS LAWN FURNITURE AND TRASH CANS. IF WEATHER PERMITS...SECURE LOOSE ARTICLES BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 113 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ALZ024-072000- JEFFERSON- 113 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY UNTIL 200 PM CST... ...WINDS 35 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR ARE LIKELY FROM APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS... ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY FROM APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS... AT 111 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM KIMBERLY TO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH JOHNS...MOVING EAST NORTHEST AT 25 MPH. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND NEAR KIMBERLY...MORRIS...MAYTOWN...GRAYSVILLE...CARDIFF...BROOKSIDE... ADAMSVILLE AND SYLVAN SPRINGS THROUGH 200 PM CST. THE PRIMARY THREAT IS STRONG GUSTY WIND OF 35 TO 45 MPH. WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE WILL BREAK OFF SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED OBJECTS SUCH AS LAWN FURNITURE AND TRASH CANS. IF WEATHER PERMITS...SECURE LOOSE ARTICLES BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 314 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ALZ018>020-072145- CALHOUN-CHEROKEE-ETOWAH- 314 PM CST SUN JAN 7 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR CALHOUN...ETOWAH AND CHEROKEE COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM CST... ...WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE FROM APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS... ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE FROM APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS... AT 314 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLANCHE TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OHATCHEE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND NEAR OHATCHEE...HOKES BLUFF...GLENCOE...BLANCHE...GAYLESVILLE...CENTRE... CEDAR BLUFF AND NEW LIBERTY THROUGH 345 PM CST. THE PRIMARY THREAT IS STRONG GUSTY WIND OF 35 TO 45 MPH. WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE WILL BREAK OFF SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED OBJECTS SUCH AS LAWN FURNITURE AND TRASH CANS. IF WEATHER PERMITS...SECURE LOOSE ARTICLES BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 8 PM.
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:18 UTC.
3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree fell on a house on Valecross Way, in the extreme southern part of the county.
A funnel cloud was reported near the Oakgrove Community.
The tornado touched down south of the Walnut Hill Community, near the intersection of Prospect Road and State Highway 49. The tornado damaged a few homes and destroyed a mobile home on Butterfly Lane. The tornado tracked northeastward and damaged another home on Sandy Drive before lifting. Overall, at least three homes sustained damage, one trailer was totally destroyed and about 40 trees were snapped off. Maximum winds were estimated at 85 to 90 mph.
Several trees were blown down in the Still Waters community, on the eastern shores of Lake Martin.
Several roads were temporarily impassable due to heavy rainfall, including Wares Ferry Road, Felder Road, Perry Road, Fleming Road, Madison Avenue, and Norman Bridge Road.
Several locations in Wetumpka, and other parts of the county, became temporarily impassable due to high water.
Several locations around Hayneville, and other parts of the county, became temporarily impassable due to high water.
The tornado touched down in the White Oak Shores Community, about nine miles south of Eufaula along Walter F. George Lake. Several hundred trees were snapped off or uprooted along the path. Numerous mobile homes were damaged and some were totally destroyed at White Oak Shores. The tornado then tracked northeastward across White Oak Creek Park and into the far southern part of the Woodlawn Subdivision. The tornado track ended at the Chattahoochee River.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Alabama, 2007Warnings in Alabama, January 2007
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 8754, 8774, 8764, 8765, 8766, 8767, 8768, 8769, 8773.