Severe thunderstorms hit parts of Alabama with severe straight line winds, tornadoes and very large (giant) hail. The severe weather wave was expected as the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center forecast an enhanced risk of severe thunderstorms across the so-called Dixie Alley in the SE US. 2017/18 La Nina is dwindling and the usual effect of this is a more active severe weather pattern for SE US in late March and early-mid April with higher probability of severe weather outbreaks. Several tornadoes were reported as well as a particularly severe hailstorm in Cullman, Alabama, where hail reached and possibly exceeded 10 cm diameter.
Viewer Mike Norton sent us the video from south of Russellville, where a confirmed tornado passed through #WAFF48 >> https://t.co/S4zv02diik pic.twitter.com/bcF1apxu4Z
— WAFF 48 (@waff48) 19 March 2018
Short HD video of baseball sized hail in Cullman #ALwx #alwx hail https://t.co/nhfIKwbkVq @spann @TWCBreaking
— Chris Conley (@MeanMotionMedia) 20 March 2018
South Cullman @spann pic.twitter.com/sbhkGRkOVx
— Tracie Rakestraw (@strawrakes6) 20 March 2018
Footage from today! Check out those wrapping rain curtains near Russellville, Alabama #alwx @ReedTimmerAccu and I were running side by side pace car for that supercell as those curtains enveloped us. This and more on youtube later! pic.twitter.com/0NfI1q0Z0x
— Aaron Jayjack (@aaronjayjack) 20 March 2018
NEW: quick phone video of #tornado touching down just west of Russellville AL before wrapping in rain with several power flashes. Still on the circulation. @breakingweather @accuweather #alwx pic.twitter.com/P9jvgkFpKr
— Reed Timmer (@ReedTimmerAccu) 19 March 2018
@spann Roof of Patterson at @JSUNews is completely gone. pic.twitter.com/0NawV4oJ7E
— Brian Teal (@brian_teal14) 20 March 2018
The reserve apartments in Jacksonville @spann @CharlesDanielWx #alwx pic.twitter.com/YjzMAG3sdT
— andrew fuller (@andrewfuller90) 20 March 2018
Windows shattered in Cullman #ALwx due to baseball sized hail. We lost ours too. @ALStormChaser @Basehunters @svrweather @TWCBreaking pic.twitter.com/oQfscLEVb7
— Chris Conley (@MeanMotionMedia) 20 March 2018
This wave of severe thunderstorms in Alabama comes just a day after southern Texas was hit by first severe thunderstorms of the season. Again, a number of severe supercell thunderstorms formed, producing large to very large hail.
West, Texas Supercell Time-Lapse 3/18/2018. #txwxhttps://t.co/QqUGeGjuIp pic.twitter.com/ZI5tet03cH
— Adam Cuker (@AdamCuker) 19 March 2018
Just south of Meridian! #txwx pic.twitter.com/KiSlys7moK
— Taylor Pryor (@TaylorPryor3) 18 March 2018
Nice decent structure on a supercell near Lake Aquilla, TX! #txwx pic.twitter.com/cDHawVqSNN
— Jason Cooley (@operation_chase) 18 March 2018
Supercell near Meridian, TX 5:15pm #txwx @NWSFortWorth pic.twitter.com/FJAtCitPSL
— Sam Dienst (@samdienst) 18 March 2018
Supercell near Briggs, TX shortly after sunset this evening. The hail roar was intense! #txwx pic.twitter.com/qykNwW3KOS
— Basehunters Chasing (@Basehunters) 18 March 2018