New severe thunderstorm warning in North Alabama for parts of Madison and Jackson counties. Strong bowing segment east of Huntsville moving northeast.
Flash flood warnings continue for much of Franklin as well as parts of Colbert and Lawrence counties.
Severe thunderstorm warning for eastern Marion county as well as all of Fayette county.
In addition, a tornado warning is in effect for south Fayette county. The NWS says they are not leaning toward continuing the tornado warning into Tuscaloosa and Walker counties, which is good news. They already have signifciant weather advisories up for parts of Winston and walker counties as well as parts of Pickens and Tuscaloosa counties.
At 7:05 a.m., radar indicated a MCS, or mesoscale convective system, over Northwest Alabama. The apex was near the Franklin/Lawrence/Winston County line intersection. Strong storms cover southern Lawrence, much of Winston, northwestern Walker, much of Fayette, northwestern Tuscaloosa and northern Pickens counties.
The storms extend into eastern Mississippi including Noxubee and Kemper countries, where the storms are quite nasty. Severe thunderstorm warnings are in effect for a large part of East Central and southeastern Mississippi in association with another MCS that is moving east northeast. This was well depicted in the convection allowing models overnight. This activity will push into Central Alabama through teh morning hours and will continue to cause severe weather.
The threat for severe weather continues for much of Alabama until early afternoon. Severe thunderstorm watches are in effect for North and central Alabama until noon and Southwest Alabama until 1 p.m. CDT.
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We are in the middle of our severe weather event for Alabama this morning. The threat will continue into the early afternoon.
Dangerous storm pushing into southern Fayette county at this hour. It still has a couple of circulations. The most dangerous is just east of Kennedy and will pass south of Belk, Fayette, and eventually toward Berry.
At 627 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles southeast of Tremont to near Sulligent to near Steens, moving east at 40 mph.
Be in safe shelter now.
The most dangerous part of this storm will travel along and just north of AL-96 from Melborne to Fernbank to Millport and Kennedy.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for southwest Alabama, including areas from southeast Mississippi into the western Florida Panhandle, as a line of intense thunderstorms continues pushing eastward this morning.
Strong thunderstorms are pushing into West Alabama this morning. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until noon for North and Central Alabama.
3-4 inches of rain have fallen across parts of the warning area.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area.
Half dollar sized hail is possible with this storm.
A hail producing storm is getting ready to push into Colbert and Franklin counties, but it has weakened and the NWS in Huntsville has stepped down to a significant weather advisory.
Strong to severe storms are moving through Lauderdale and Colbert Counties now and are over northeastern Mississippi, moving toward Northwest Alabama as well.
Damage is being reported across Williamsom and Maury Counties in Middle Tennessee tonight.
The first severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for the northwestern corner of Alabama.
