CORRECTION to add Tuscaloosa County to the list.
This is going to be a triple busy 24 hours in the weather office. No nap time and no watching Andy Griffith or Gunsmoke.
The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Tornado Watch that goes until 3;00 this afternoon for about three-fourths of the state. All counties are included except the extreme north and part of the south. It also includes 13 counties in NW Florida and 20 counties in Georgia. But let’s concentrate on the Alabama counties. Here is a list of counties affected:
Autauga
Barber
Bibb
Bullock
Butler
Calhoun
Chambers
Chilton
Clay
Cleburne
Coffee
Conecuh
Coosa
Covington
Crenshaw
Dale
Dallas
Elmore
Escambia
Fayette
Geneva
Greene
Hale
Henry
Houston
Jefferson
Lamar
Lee
Lowndes
Macon
Monroe
Montgomery
Perry
Pickens
Pike
Randolph
Russell
Shelby
St. Clair
Talladega
Tallapoosa
Tuscaloosa
Walker
Wilcox