Cindy is no more as far as a tropical storm is concerned and the National Hurricane Center is no longer issuing advisories.
Late tonight the center of circulation was a little bit difficult to pinpoint, but we think based on surface observations and radar animations that Cindy is centered around Pell City east of Birmingham and moving toward the NE.
Doesn't matter a great deal, because the center has become somewhat diffused and a bit elongated.
Overall, the weather is winding down, however it has been quite a day. Scan down and read a number of other posts that still have useful information including a long list of rainfall amounts.
A Tornado Watch continued for parts of East Alabama until 1:00 a.m., however some of those counties have already been cleared. The risk of additional spin-off tornadoes in Alabama the rest of the night seem small.
John Pace, the News Director for WTDR-FM in Anniston/Oxford, gave us this report late tonight. He was in Ashland when there was lots of street flooding. He came through Waldo and there was some debris, but not major, but leaves and twigs were all over the place. Power was out on Highway 21 south of Munford. Power crews were searching along the power lines about 5 miles south of Munford.
We received an interesting rainfall report from one of our blog readers from Weogufka in East Central Alabama. He reported 4.33 inches of rain with most of that falling in 45 minutes early this evening. Let's look at some additional rainfall amounts that we have not posted before;
7.56 inches at Galliano, Louisiana
6.37 at Grand Isle, Louisiana (that's where Cindy made landfall)
4.99 in New Orleans
6.61 at Pascagoula
6.50 at Gulfport, MS
6.03 at Vancleave, MS
6.55 inches at Mobile Airport
3.52 at Fowl River in Mobile County
Now, people in the Southern Appalachians will have to worry about inland flooding. As much as 8 inches may fall in the higher elevations of the Appalachians.
For the Birmingham area, rain will be tapering off shortly with very little for the remainder of tonight.
NOTE: We will try to post a complete update on Hurricane Dennis by around 10:30 or so tonight. He is, by far, our major concern now.
Late tonight the center of circulation was a little bit difficult to pinpoint, but we think based on surface observations and radar animations that Cindy is centered around Pell City east of Birmingham and moving toward the NE.
Doesn't matter a great deal, because the center has become somewhat diffused and a bit elongated.
Overall, the weather is winding down, however it has been quite a day. Scan down and read a number of other posts that still have useful information including a long list of rainfall amounts.
A Tornado Watch continued for parts of East Alabama until 1:00 a.m., however some of those counties have already been cleared. The risk of additional spin-off tornadoes in Alabama the rest of the night seem small.
John Pace, the News Director for WTDR-FM in Anniston/Oxford, gave us this report late tonight. He was in Ashland when there was lots of street flooding. He came through Waldo and there was some debris, but not major, but leaves and twigs were all over the place. Power was out on Highway 21 south of Munford. Power crews were searching along the power lines about 5 miles south of Munford.
We received an interesting rainfall report from one of our blog readers from Weogufka in East Central Alabama. He reported 4.33 inches of rain with most of that falling in 45 minutes early this evening. Let's look at some additional rainfall amounts that we have not posted before;
7.56 inches at Galliano, Louisiana
6.37 at Grand Isle, Louisiana (that's where Cindy made landfall)
4.99 in New Orleans
6.61 at Pascagoula
6.50 at Gulfport, MS
6.03 at Vancleave, MS
6.55 inches at Mobile Airport
3.52 at Fowl River in Mobile County
Now, people in the Southern Appalachians will have to worry about inland flooding. As much as 8 inches may fall in the higher elevations of the Appalachians.
For the Birmingham area, rain will be tapering off shortly with very little for the remainder of tonight.
NOTE: We will try to post a complete update on Hurricane Dennis by around 10:30 or so tonight. He is, by far, our major concern now.