Lightning — St. Clair, Alabama

2025-05-01 · near Oak Ridge, St. Clair, Alabama

Event narrative

A lightning strike at 10:31 am CDT along 30th Street N in Pell City resulted in an injury.

Wider weather episode

Multiple days of thunderstorms across Central Alabama resulted in instances of wind damage and hail across the region from May 1-3. During the morning of May 1, a lightning strike in Pell City resulted in an injury. Wind damage and hail on May 2 was generally concentrated along and north of Interstate 59/20 as a line of severe thunderstorms moved from Mississippi to Georgia. A fatality and injury occurred the morning of May 3 near Red Mountain in Birmingham after a tree fell on power workers repairing damage from the previous evening. Wind damage and hail were less prevalent on the evening of May 3 as another line of thunderstorms moved southeastward across Central Alabama. However, a brief EF-0 tornado occurred in the Salem area of Lee County, causing minor tree damage.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1240503. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.