Published on: June 3, 2012 at 7:10 PM

Western Tennessee, northern Mississippi and extreme Northwest Alabama will all be going under a tornado watch in a few minutes.

It will last until 3 a.m.

Alabama Counties include: Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan [AL] till Jun 04, 3:00 AM CDT.

Thunderstorms are breaking out over western Tennessee at this hour, and severe thunderstorm warnings are in effect.

A large complex of storms is over northern Arkansas as well, and addiitonal warnings are in effect there. There is also a tornado watch for Arkansas as well as parts of southern Missouri.

We don’t expect the storms to present a big tornado threat for North Alabama, but because it is a big watch, North Alabama got “lumped into” the tornado watch.