Published on: April 10, 2009 at 5:28 PM

* NWS expands the area of Tornado Watch for these counties until 9:00 pm:
Chambers
Chilton
Coosa
Tallapoosa

The Watch also continues until 9:00 for these counties previously included:
Calhoun
Cherokee
Clay
Cleburne
Etowah
Jefferson
Randolph
Shelby
St. Clair
Talladega

* A separate Tornado Watch continues until 7:00 p.m. for these counties:
Bibb
Blount
Fayette
Greene
Hale
Lamar
Marion
Pickens
Sumter
Tuscaloosa
Walker
Winston

* NWS cancelled the Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Tuscaloosa County.

* NWS continues a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 5:45 for Bibb, Chilton, Jefferson and Shelby Counties.

* At Langston in NE Alabama’s Jackson County, broadcast reports tell of a tornado that touched down at 3:14 p.m. There were reports of significant damage to mobile homes in the Langston area. Numerous trailers were overturned with people trapped.

* One mile south of Geraldine in DeKalb County, a trained storm spotter reported a tornado at 4:18 p.m. on the ground.

* Clay County EMA reports large hail the size of quarters at 5:08 p.m. in the Delta community.

* NWS cancelled the Tornado Warning for Clay County as the storms move out of the area.

* NWS continues Tornado Warning until 6:00 p.m. for Cleburne and Randolph Counties. Doppler radar suspected a tornadoi 8 miles north of Wedowee moving east at 45.

* Randolph County EMA reports golfball-size hail at 5:25 p.m.

* Etowah County EMA reports golfball-size hail at 5:22 p.m. at the EMA office in downtown Gadsden.

* NWS continues Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne and Etowah Counties until 6:00 p.m.