Severe Thunderstorm Watch--Extreme North Alabama

It goes until 11 o'clock tonight and is generally for the Tennessee Valley counties. Here is the actual list:

Limestone
Madison
Morgan
Dekalb
Jackson
Marshall
Colbert
Franklin
Lauderdale

Cities like Florence. Russellville, Decatur, Huntsville, Guntersville. Scottsboro, Fort Payne included.

At 6:30 this evening, there was not a single shower or thunderstorm in progress across Alabama. Earlier a strong thunderstorm tracked across Extreme Northeast Alabama. Trees were uprooted in Western Dekalb County. Large hail the size of quarters fell near Mentone, atop Lookout Mountain.

Intense thunderstorms are in progress over NW Tennessee and some of those will get down into North Alabama later this evening. That is the basis for the new Severe Thunderstorm Watch.

For the Greater Birmingham Area, no threat of severe weather at this time. However, some of those Tennessee storms could reach this far south late tonight. We will watch that.

But they could also weaken quite a bit before reaching this part of Alabama