Here is where some of the stronger thunderstorms are shortly after 6:30:
* The storm that prompted the warning for the Birmingham area earlier was crossing the NE corner of Walker County into SE Winston County passing mostly north of the city of Jasper. It will be giving heavy rain to the upper part of Smith Lake in SE Winston County as it moves toward Double Springs.
* Very heavy rain has fallen across Tallapoosa County and that cluster of storms now moving into Eastern Coosa County. These will dump heavy rain in places like Rockford and Stewartville as the storm moves toward extreme Southern Talladega County.
* Other storms with heay rain were moving from Macon in Bullock County toward Montomery and Wetumpka.
* In NW Alabama, storms with heavy rain were over the western part of Marion, Franklin and Colbert Counties.
* That heavy thunderstorm that moved out of Etowah County in NE Alabama, was moving NW along the Blount/Marshall County line.
* NWS/Huntsville has a Significant Weather Alert until 7:00 p.m. for Cullman and Franklin Counties. They also issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Colbert County until 7:00.
Some early rain reports from tonight’s storms:
0.73 Helena
0.64 Clanton
0.74 Hoover/Rocky Ridge
