Thunderstorm Wind — Morgan, Alabama

2025-04-10 · near Cole Spgs, Morgan, Alabama

Event narrative

Trees were snapped and uprooted at 12 Frost Road and neighboring areas.

Wider weather episode

A cluster of supercells developed during the late afternoon hours, producing large hail at several locations in north central Alabama. The largest reported hail sized was 2.25 inches in Albertville in Marshall County. These storms also produced wind damage in northeast Alabama. Then, a secondary batch of thunderstorms, merging at times with the original thunderstorms further south yielded a widespread swath of damaging winds from the northwest tip of Alabama, hard hitting the Shoals/Quad Cities metro area, then pushing through Morgan into Marshall Counties while another wave of wind spread from Madison through Jackson into DeKalb Counties. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down in this swath, many landing on homes and vehicles, resulting in at least 3 injuries in the Sheffield, Decatur and Hartselle areas. Other more sporadic wind damage was reported further north. The damaging winds resulted in 20000-30000 without power for a period of time in northwest into north central Alabama. Around 250 damage reports were received from this event in north Alabama.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1261003. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.