Published on: April 4, 2007 at 1:27 AM

Line of storms at 1:30:

South Lamar County eastward along the Fayette-Tuscaloosa County line, to Birmingham, Anniston and Heflin.

Moving steadily southward and gradually diminishing.

Still lots of lightning and locally heavy rain. Gusts to 37 MPH at Birmingham Airport

These early pollen-flushing rain amounts as of 1 AM:

0.61 at Muscle Shoals
0.55 at Huntsville
0.38 at Decatur

Heavy rain now in NE Trussville

These additional counties cleared from Severe Thunderstorm Watch:

Blount
Cherokee
Etowah
Walker

Line of storms now south of all those counties and moving away.

Coffee sure does taste nice at 1:30 AM