Overview
An upper-level disturbance moved across the Deep South in the early morning hours of April 5, 2022. This fostered the development of a surface low which moved across Central Mississippi into Central Alabama. A broad area of strong to severe thunderstorms impacted the region as a result of an increasingly unstable air mass and favorable wind shear. Thunderstorms in the morning initially posed a threat of large hail and damaging winds. Hail up to baseball size was reported from one such storm in Marengo County. Later in the morning, storms became more surface-based and a tornado threat resulted, mainly impacting the southern and southeastern portions of Central Alabama.