Alabama Emergency Management Agency maintains a list of community storm shelters for almost every county. Several counties, including Jefferson, Madison and Tuscaloosa also provide interactive maps that show storm shelter locations. When evacuating to a shelter, you should bring:

Storm shelters have opened up around central Alabama as communities prepare for severe weather on Saturday. About five dozen people gathered at the tornado safe room in Fultondale on Walker Chapel Road Saturday afternoon.

No one is taking this lightly. In Tuscaloosa County, PARA will make four of its public storm shelters available. It’s hard to miss the storm shelter at the McDonald Hughes Community Center in Tuscaloosa. It’s the big, white-domed building.