An active weather system will bring rain and the chance of strong to severe storms to Alabama Wednesday.

Strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible across the risk areas starting on Wednesday afternoon and will continue through the evening and into the early-morning hours of Thursday. Damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph will be the main threat, but according to the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center, a brief spin-up tornado can’t be ruled out.

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Local areas are currently forecast in the “marginal risk” area for a storm system that could bring damaging winds, rain and a brief tornado.

Kaitlin Fleming is the Managing Editor of Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc. She can be reached by emailing kaitlin.fleming@alexcityoutlook.com.