A solid line of heavy thunderstorms now extends from north of Locust Fork to Smoke Rise to west of Warrior to near Oakman with another strong storm along the Warrior River along the Tuscaloosa/Jefferson County line with another near Jasper.
The storms are sinking south and will affect much of Jefferson County in the next hour.
The top of these storms extend over ten miles into the atmosphere!
In Northeast Alabama strong storms are lined up along I-59 from Fort Payne to north of Gadsden. They will affect much of Etowah and Cherokee Counties.
To the north, other strong storms are along the Tennessee River in Northwest Alabama. Those will drop south into Colbert, Franklin and Lawrence Counties. A severe thunderstorm warning has just been issued for Lauderdale, Franklin, Lawrence and western Morgan Counties.
These storms sill have have heavy rain, deadly lightning and the potential to produce damaging wind gusts,
