As the National Weather Service in Birmingham hones in on today's threats, we'll provide real-time weather updates that affect our readership and listening area.
The first round of severe weather in a forecasted double-header threat is approaching west Alabama as Friday night becomes Saturday morning and the system has already created tornadoes in several US states.
The city of Tuscaloosa will open two storm shelters after midnight Friday at 1 a.m. on Saturday as the first round of severe storms impacts west Alabama.
Governor Kay Ivey has officially declared a state of emergency across all of Alabama ahead of the near certainty of dangerous, severe storms this weekend.
Rather than try to regionalize the threat, Ivey's proclamation is in effect for all 67 Alabama counties...