At 8:20 p.m., the National Weather Service, Birmingham canceled the Tornado Watch for Fayette, Lamar, Marion and Winston Counties in West and NW Alabama. The line of intense thunderstorms has moved east of those areas.
The Tornado Watch continues until 1:00 a.m. for these counties in North/Central and West Alabama.
Blount
Greene
Hale
Jefferson
Marengo
Pickens
Sumter
Tuscaloosa
Walker
Of course, all of those counties will not be under the gun that long. Some of the counties, like Tuscaloosa and Walker and probably Jefferson, will be cleared much earlier than that.
At 8:25 p.m., the line of storms extended from extreme North Alabama down through Cullman in Walker County into West Tuscaloosa County. The line was moving steadily east and overloaded with lightning.
