Published on: April 18, 2008 at 9:01 PM

Moderate to heavy rain continues tonight from near Tuscaloosa up to near Haleyville. The heavier rain area is about 40 miles wide. It is moving NE at about 30 mph.

If you do the math and you are lucky, you could over an hour of moderate rain.

Rainfall amountso n Doppler radar are runnig generally one quarter to one half inch per hour with the heavier rain areas and storms dropping up at an inch or a little more in an hour.

Lightning has decreased tremendously. The severe threat is dropping for Central Alabama.

A severe thunderstorm warning continues for Clarke and Washington Counties until 9:30 p.m. Thie storm will pass near and just south of the town of Jackson. The tornado threat continues for Southwest Alabama. It will spread eastward across South Alabama overnight.