Alabama Weather Update at 8:25 p.m.

All quiet across Alabama at this hour.

There is a tornado watch for the three Northwest Alabama counties, including Franklin, Colbert, and Lauderdale. I would expect additional tornado watches will be issued later. A new Tornado Watch has just been issued for much of Louisiana, Mississippi, and extreme East Texas as well as southern Arkansas.

The main storm near our state is passing south of Memphis at this hour. That storm has a PDS Tornado Warning on it. Radar shows two hook echoes, with the more southern hook becoming dominant. It is moving toward Collierville.

Storms are moving through Louisiana, southeast of Shreveport, and in Arkansas from Pine Bluff to the west of Memphis.

The storms approaching Nashville have weakened substantially over the past two hours and are no longer severe.

A tornadic supercell is passing south of Cape Girardeau MO. Other tornado warnings are in effect in Illinois and Wisconsin.

A destructive area of storms is moving into the Chicago area. There is actually a PDS Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect for the Chicagoland area. 90 mph winds are expected there.

For us here in Alabama, the action will come later tonight as a squall line is expected to fill in and push southeast. It should reach the Northwest Corner of Alabama around midnight. It will spend the next 4-5 hours working its way southeast to near I-59. Through the early morning hours, it will reach Montgomery and Auburn by 7 a.m.

The good news is that conditions should allow for weakening the further southeast it pushes. But until it does, damaging winds will be a threat for most of North and Central Alabama through tomorrow morning. For areas northwest of a line from Reform to Jasper to Hanceville to Scottsboro, there will be a threat of a tornado as well. There could be some large hail.

The SPC Day One is virtually unchanged for the South. The High Risk continues for the area around Memphis southwest into extreme Arkansas and northern Mississippi.

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