Overview

• Tuesday morning’s alert covered Limestone, Madison and Jackson counties in North Alabama with wind gusts near 40 mph, torrential rain and frequent cloud-to-ground lightning.
• Late Monday night, Ogemaw and Iosco counties in Michigan were placed under a strong thunderstorm alert that included gusts up to 40 mph and a localized flooding risk.
• The National Weather Service urged residents to seek safe shelter and to avoid driving through flooded roadways as storms moved across affected counties.
• Recent alerts across Oregon, Alabama and Michigan have highlighted variable hail sizes, including pea-sized (0.25 inches), marble-sized (0.5 inches) and penny-sized (0.75 inches).
• Doppler radar details in the notices described storm locations, movement and speeds to target short-duration, county-level warnings as cells tracked through communities.