< Alabama Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Severe | Effective 05/31/2026 14:48

Alabama Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Severe | Effective 05/31/2026 14:48

Headline: 
Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued May 31 at 4:48PM CDT until May 31 at 5:30PM CDT by NWS Huntsville AL
Event: 
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Urgency: 
Immediate
Effective: 
May 31, 2026 - 2:48pm
Expires: 
May 31, 2026 - 3:30pm
Description: 
SVRHUN The National Weather Service in Huntsville Alabama has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Central Lauderdale County in northwestern Alabama... East central Colbert County in northwestern Alabama... North central Lawrence County in northwestern Alabama... * Until 530 PM CDT. * At 448 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Underwood-Petersville, or 9 miles north of Florence, moving southeast at 25 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Killen, St. Florian, Underwood-Petersville, Green Hill, Northwest Alabama Regional Airport, and Oakland.
Instruction: 
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning are occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
Area Description: 
Colbert, AL; Lauderdale, AL; Lawrence, AL
Forcast Office: 
NWS Huntsville AL