One severe thunderstorm warning…
It’s a big one…it covers Chambers, northern Lee and Tallapoosa Counties until 415. Cells extend from south of Alex City to south of Wadley and southeast of Roanoke. Coosa and Randolph have been cleared.
Non severe storms are over southern Talladega County and back to the north of Fayette, Walker, Cullman, Blount and Etowah Counties. But they are slowly diminishing.
A flash flood warning remains in effect for northern Jefferson and St. Clair Counties until 4:45 a.m.
Three tornado warnings over in Georgia.
Tornado watch til 9 a.m. for Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore, Etowah, Hale, Jefferson, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Montgomery, Perry, Pike, Randolph, Russell, Shelby, St. Clair, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Winston Counties.
Fayette, Greene, Lamar, Marion, Pickens and Sumter Counties have been cleared from the watch.
Literally thousands of trees have probably been blown down across Alabama tonight. One of the hardest hit areas is around Arkadelphia, in southern Cullman County, where we had strong indications of a tornado earlier.
…94 tornado fatalities nationally so far this year. There were only 81 in all of 2007 and 67 in all of 2006.
