Published on: February 18, 2009 at 7:28 PM

Not completely out of the woods yet…but the tornado threat is decreasing.

A TORNADO WARNING is in effect until 745 p.m. for Randolph County in East Alabama…still showing possible tornado…high damaging wind threat from cell southeast of Tennant. This cell was moving into Georgia.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING is in effect for much of Talladega and Clay Counties until 745 p.m. At 7:20 p.m., the most dangerous storm was entering Clay south west of Ashland. It does show signs of rotation.

NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NE Greene, southern Tuscaloosa, northern Hale and western Bibb Counties. The strongest storms are between Tuscaloosa and Moundville over to south of Coaling and Vance at 729 p.m.. Large hail possible with these.

No other warnings. A tornado watch does continue south along and south of the line of storms, which extends roughly from south of Tuscaloosa, to south of Calera to south of Talladega to Wedowee.

The CAPE is dropping rapidly now over Central Alabama. Surface based CAPE values greater than 500 j/kg are now south of a Chilton to Randolph County line. In Central Alabama, the only 3km EHI greater than 1 is around Randolph County.

Dewpoints are already in the 30s over the Tennessee Valley.