The good news is that storms over North and West Central Alabama have weakened over the past hour.
The NWS in Birmingham allowed the severe thunderstorm warning for Lamar and Marion counties to expire at 5 p.m.
The strongest storm currently is over Winston County, north of Double Springs. Lots of lightning in that one, and could have wind gusts to 40 mph.
The storms will continues to go downhill through the early evening, but will begin to ramp back up around 10 p.m. over Northwest Alabama, and really expand through the pre-dawn hour in the I-59 Corridor generally from Huntsville down to Gadsden then southwest to Birmingham and Tuscaloosa.
These storms will weaken after sunrise, but showers will continue through much of the late morning and early afternoon in the same areas.
Then storms will fire after noon tomorrow in areas southeast of I-59. Some of those could be strong to severe tomorrow afternoon. Damaging winds will be the main threat but a brief tornado cannot be ruled out. The storms will continue until midnight or so…