Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Walker/Winston til 3:45 PM

The storm that produced the eastern Mississippi/Pickens County tornado has definitely morphed into a mesoscale convective vortex. It is now over northwestern Walker County, so the NWS has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Walker and Winston Counties.

It has a high probability of producing wind damage, but it also could produce spin up tornadoes as well.
Folks from Jasper to Nauvoo up to Arley need to be in a safe place. There will be tree damage.

It will eventually move toward Eva and Falkville.

Doppler radar shows 67 knot winds at 5,500 feet south of Double Springs.

The intensity of the line of storms trailing from this MCV has increased.

Damage was reported at Glen Allen at 2:30 including a tree down on a house.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
NORTHERN WALKER COUNTY IN ALABAMA…
WINSTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA…

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 250 PM CDT…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A LINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
LYNN TO ASHBANK TO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARBON HILL…AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
JASPER…ARLEY…POPLAR SPRINGS…MCDOWELL CAMP GROUNDS…CORINTH
REC AREA…DOUBLE SPRINGS…HOUSTON RECREATIONAL AREA AND ASHRIDGE.

THIS INCLUDES…
US 78 EXIT NUMBERS 39 THROUGH 65…

WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH WILL BREAK LARGE TREE LIMBS AND CAUSE SOME
DAMAGE…ESPECIALLY TO SMALLER STRUCTURES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

FOR YOUR PROTECTION…MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.