This is a very dagnerous storm entering western Marion County.

Sirens are sounding in Marion County. We can hear them from our position 3 miles north of Hamilton on US 43.

The potential tornado is near Smithville, MS. It will pass near or just north of Hamilton, then near or north of Hackleburg.

We are watching the storm. It has lots of lightning.

Residents in Marion County should take cover NOW...especially from Hamilton north.

The National Weather Service Birmingham will be issuing a tornado warning momentarily for Marion County. This is for an increasingly dangerous looking storm in Fulton County, Mississippi.

A tornado has just been reported on the ground near Wren, MS just west of Amory...

This storm will enter northwestern Marion County before 8:30 p.m. passing near or northwest of Hamilton. This is an extremely dangerous storm.

The tornado watch just issued for North and Central Alabama is a PDS (Particularly Dangerous Tornado Watch.) It goes until 4 a.m.

Tornado damage is being reported from Limestone County. A possible tornado is along the Madison County Alabama/Lincoln County Tennesee line.

We are located just north of Hamilton this evening, near the ABC3340 Web Cam location.

Monitoring a storm that is moving into Ittawamba county, Mississippi. A tornado warning is in effect for that storm. It is going to just graze northwestern Marion County as it moves into Frankin County. We are observing requent lightning from our location looking west.

Another potentially tornadic storm is located near Houston in Chicasaw County.

Both storms shows very clear indications of hook echos.

This storm will affect Marion County Alabama north of Hamilton in about 1 hour.

New tornado watches have been issued for much of North and Central Alabama until 4 a.m. CDT. In our area, the tornado watch includes Bibb, Blount, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Shelby, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Winston Counties as well as Autauga, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore, Etowah, Marengo, Perry, Randolph, St. Clair, Talladega, and Tallapoosa Counties.

Late report from AP indicates ten dead in Central Tennessee from this afternoon's tornadoes.

Supercell just near of Athens

May be a rain-wrapped tornado

At least 8 dead in Middle Tennessee, Gallatin hardest hit

Line of intenense thunderstorms across north and west Mississippi

Nearest storms to Birmingham 90-100 miles to the NW

Supercell just near of Athens

May be a rain-wrapped tornado

At least 8 dead in Middle Tennessee, Gallatin hardest hit

Line of intenense thunderstorms across north and west Mississippi

Nearest storms to Birmingham 90-100 miles to the NW

The Nashville Tennessean reeports at least seven dead in Middle Tennessee.

Gallantin, about 24 miles NE of Nahville hard hit with at least 3 fatalities.

A number of homes destroyed and numerous ones damaged.

Tornado Warning for Colbert, Lauderdale and Franklin in NW Alabama

John and I are located just west of Winfield in Marion County for his 5 o'clock live shot.

A dangerous situation continues across the South late this afternoon. Numerous tornadoes with damage and even fatalities have been reported in Middle Tennessee.

So far the situation over Alabama has been calm. But thunderstorm activity continues to intensify over North Mississppi.

An intensifying thunderstorm is over the northeast corner of Mississippi southwest of Iuka. A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for Prentiss County. This storm will clip the extreme northwest corner of Alabama. A tornado warning has just been issued for Colbert and Lauderdale Counties.

The most dangerous storms over North Mississippi are a complex over Union and Pontotoc Counties, west and northwest of Tupelo. Radar indicates a tornado north of Pontotoc and another southwest of Booneville. The storms are moving northeast at 45 mph. These storms will eventually affect Northwest Alabama from Franklin County to the north.

There are no thunderstorms threatening the rest of the western border of Alabama at this time.

The airmass over Alabama is moderately unstable. Thunderstorms will continue to spread into western sections of the state during the evening hours. They will be severe with the enhanced possibility that they could produce tornadoes, very large hail and damaging winds.

A PDS Tornado Watch continues for most of North and Central Alabama until 8 p.m. CDT.

All Alabamians should pay close attention to the latest severe weather information through the overnight tonight.

- Bill Murray

Tornado on the ground at 4:51 pm at Morgan City in Leflore County, Mississippi

Violent thunderstorms continue to develop over North and NW Mississippi

Fatalities from tornado at Gallatin, Tennessee

Tornado Warnings for Colbert and Lauderdale County in Extreme NW Alabama until 5:45 pm

Still images from our new SKYCAM network are now online:

http://www.abc3340.com/static/skycams/skycamsmain.html

We will be adding the weather data later, but for now you can see a still image from the four available sites... more sites will be coming online in coming weeks!

Thanks to Jeff Wyatt from our staff for making this happen today...

A quick update from the weather office...

Sorry for the blog being bogged down today... the system simply can't handle the large amount of traffic. We will work on a solution this week so hopefully this won't happen again...

Tornado damage in Tennessee is extensive and severe. Gallatin hit hard; major damage to homes and people being pulled out of them. A large tornado was reported on the ground north of Columbia, TN within the hour.

See all of the Tennessee damage reports here:

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/tn/public.html

Storms firing rapidly over Mississippi and moving this way; we expect severe storms to enter Northwest Alabama within the next 60 to 90 minutes.

Remember we will be up on the live stream on if you don't have a TV tonight...

Oldshue and Peters are in the field; Simpson is in the office here with me. Stay tuned...