Still some active thunderstorms over NW Alabama in the wee hours of this Wednesday morning.
At 4 am, when the whole world should be asleep, a line of thunderstorms extended across Lamar, NW Fayette and Winston County in NW Alabama. This line of storms was moving into the NW part of Walker County.
NWS/Birmingham has posted a Significant Weather Alert for these areas:
* Fayette and Winston County until 4:30 am
* Walker County until 5 am
The storms could produce wind gusts as high as 45 mph along with dangerous lightning and downpours of rain.
The line of storms was somewhat narrow and radar trends show that the storms are slowly going downhill but still strong.
Out ahead of the main action, an individual storm, a smaller one, was over North Jefferson County east of I-65 between Morris and Pinson.
Movement of the storms, east at about 30.
