Published on: August 24, 2008 at 2:05 AM

* Storm Prediction Center is concerned about the situation further north into North Central Alabama. There is an outside chance that a new Tornado Watch which would include the Birmingham area (but not certain)

* Earlier Tornado Watch canceled for Dallas, Lowdnes and Perry County in Central Alabama.

* Tornado Watch continues until 3 am fir these Central and Southeast counties:
Autauga
Barbour
Bullock
Chambers
Chilton
Coosa
Elmore
Lee
Macon
Montgomery
Pike
Russell
Tallapoosa
Talladega
Clay
Randolph

At 2 am the heaviest rain in the state was in a broad arc extending from Lamar and Pickens County in West Alabama eastward to include Fayette, Walker, Jefferson, Shelby and St. Clair. Bands of thunderstorms over East Central and SE Alabama with some Tornado Warnings. (Scroll down for those.

SIX HOUR RAIN AMOUNTS
1.33 Helena (storm total, not just 6 hours)
0.68 NE Trussville (storm total)
0.01 Gadsden, Muscle Shoals
Trace Huntsville, Decatur, Haleyville
0.55 Tuscaloosa
0.41 Birmingham Airport
1.43 Montgomery/Dannelly Field (storm total is much more)
1.18 Shelby County Airport
0.27 Anniston
Trace Mobile
0.13 Evergreen
2.75 Ozark
0.40 Troy (Storm total over 5 inches0
Trace