Madison county Alabama--Tornado Sirens are down-- cell towers down- huntsville under warning

[Snoutport]

if you have family in madison county call them on their land line and tell them "possible tornado movement"

Decatur is also under "possible tornado movement"

Huntsville also under warning and dead center in a huge storm.

[Cerridwen]

1. K & R and stay safe! n/t

[Snoutport]

2. link for live news huntsville

http://www.waff.com/

[ReggieVeggie]

3. central Alabama, seeing 4 vortex signatures on radar

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?num=1&delay=15&scale=1.00&noclutter=0&ID=BMX&type=N0R&lat=33.51913834&lon=-86.80933380&label=Birmingham%2C+AL&showstorms=99&showlabels=1&rainsnow=0

[Snoutport]

4. how do you tell the vortex? the pink triangle? We have family

just north of huntsville in harvest. they already had one near miss.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. THAT is an ugly map

WOW!

[thewiseguy]

5. look at this picture from Birmingham

[Snoutport]

6. Holy shit.

I just got off the phone with the family. One tornado went by pretty close and nobody there has a basement! They are in some dinky stupid room in the middle of their house with no real safe place!!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Bathroom is the safest in the bathtub

if memory serves... an INTERIOR bathroom

[myrna minx]

9. My heart goes out to the good people of Alabama.

:cry: I can't even imagine.

[MineralMan]

10. What a terrible series of storms.

I hope it doesn't result in too many casualties. Man!

[Snoutport]

11. yeah...thousands of lightning strikes have hit around their little town

that in itself sounds pretty scary.

[Snoutport]

12. golf ball sized hail now reported around huntsville

[MineralMan]

13. It all sounds dangerous. I hate severe thunderstorms and all they

carry with them. I hope everyone's safe.

[thewiseguy]

14. There are numerous fatalities in Pleasant Grove Birmingham area according to Jefferson county EMA

[Snoutport]

16. It missed downtown but it looked like it was a very populated area it went through

[Snoutport]

15. one on the ground in albertville. the doppler radar for huntsville got blown away