Published on: January 5, 2007 at 7:43 AM

It is in effect until 3 pm, CDT, for SE Alabama, NW Florida and much of Central and South Georgia. In Alabama, these counties:

Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Elmore, Lee, Macon, Montgomery, Pike, Randolph, Russell and Tallapoosa.

Since the Alabama counties are in the western part of the watch, they will probably get an all-clear much earlier than 3 pm.

TORNADO WARNING
For Chambers County until 8:15 am,

The other Tornado Watch that was in effect until 10 am has now been cleared for the following Alabama counties:

Calhoun
Cherokee
Cleburne
Coosa
Etowah
Lowdnes
Talladega

DAMAGE IN WEST JEFFERSON COUNTY
This occurred early this morning when Jefferson County was under a tornado warning. The report is from Concord in the western part of the county:

2 houses damaged on Lilly Lane, Concord ,probable tornado. windows blown out, christmas tree sucked out, shed roof torn off,pool table flipped out and onto overtuurned roof.