Tornado watch issued for local counties
A tornado watch is in effect until 10 tonight for Madison, Limestone and surrounding counties.
The National Weather Service issued the watch beginning at 3:50 p.m.
A tornado watch alerts the public to the possibility of a tornado in the next several hours. The weather service would issue a warning to alert the public of an existing tornado.
Northern portions of Alabama and Mississippi and parts of Tennessee will have an enhanced risk of damaging weather, forecasters said.
Tornado watches also have been issued today for a large swath of Mississippi — generally the northern half of the state — along with smaller sections of southeast Arkansas, northern Louisiana and west Tennessee.
“A few tornadic supercells are possible, along with sporadic damaging gusts and isolated severe hail,” the Storm Prediction Center said in its storm outlook for Wednesday.
