Damaging winds and hail so large it could cause injury to people and animals and damage buildings was expected with the storms.

Strong thunderstorms are expected to start firing up in the early evening Wednesday. And some storms could dump 2 to 3 inches of rain in one hour, forecasters say.

Florida's slender peninsula allows sea breezes to push in from either coast, sometimes with spectacular results.

Thunderstorms are developing now (2 p.m.) over northeast Lower Michigan into central Lower Michigan and also over far southern Lower Michigan. The dark green area in the map above shows where some of these thunderstorms could produce the quick severe weather conditions of a strong wind gust or large hail.

Several concert series have been scheduled in Hoboken this summer. The Swingadelic concert has been rescheduled for Aug. 28 at 7 p.m., the city said. The forecast has been downgra

The Piedmont will follow a normal summer pattern for the next few days. Friday will be warm and muggy with a chance for scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Slightly drier

The National Weather Service released a severe thunderstorm warning at 3:09 p.m. on Wednesday in effect until 4:15 p.m. for Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale and Lawrence counties.

According to AccuWeather, “A shelf cloud is a low, horizontal wedge-shaped cloud, associated with a thunderstorm gust front (or occasionally with a cold front, even in the absence of thunderstorms). A rising cloud motion often can be seen in the leading part of the shelf cloud, while the underside often appears turbulent, boiling, and wind-torn.”