Weather Alerts For Alabaster, AL

# HEADLINE -------------------- STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT CENTRAL SHELBY COUNTY THROUGH 630 PM CDT # SUMMARY -------------------- At 602 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms over Maylene, or over Alabaster, moving south at 10 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Wind gusts up to 40 mph and penny size hail. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE Hoover, Alabaster, Pelham, Helena, Calera, Chelsea, Montevallo, Columbiana, Indian Springs Village, Wilton, American Village, Oak Mountain State Park, Maylene, Oak Mountain Amphitheater, Greystone, Inverness, Highland Lakes, Riverchase, Fowler Lake, and University Of Montevallo. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS Interstate 65 between mile markers 227 and 248. ISSUED AT Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 6:03 PM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Birmingham AL HEADER Special Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Shelby AL

Closest strike: 0.09 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Marginal Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MUCH OF UTAH INTO ADJACENT PARTS OF WYOMING AND COLORADO... AND ACROSS A PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST SUMMARY An isolated threat for severe wind gusts is expected today in Utah into southwest Wyoming and western Colorado. Thunderstorms capable of strong to locally severe damaging gusts are also possible across parts of the Southeast. 20Z Update Southeastern US The primary forecast update was to move the Marginal Risk area further south and east into central Georgia and southern Alabama, where thunderstorms have developed in an unstable airmass with steep low-level lapse rates. While a lack of vertical shear will support a disorganized storm mode, water-loaded downdrafts and associated severe thunderstorm gusts will be possible this afternoon into the early evening. Additional thunderstorm development along the diffuse cold front across Tennessee into northern Alabama will continue to progress into the Marginal Risk area, posing a primarily damaging wind threat. Otherwise, the forecast largely remains on track with minor adjustments to the thunder area based on current guidance. Damaging wind gusts are still anticipated this afternoon across portions of Utah into southwestern Wyoming and western Colorado. See the previous discussion for more detail.