Weather Slowly Getting Less Nervous

Be sure and scan down to see some photographs of the Trussville flooding taken by Aaron Beard.

FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CULLMAN COUNTY UNTIL 9:45 PM
Officials are barricading roads in the Jones Chapel community. Do not drive around barricades! Moderate to heavy rain continues across much of Cullman County at 8:41 pm. A bridge is out on County Road 985, which is about 5 miles southwest of Jones Chapel. Also...AL 69 near Bug Tussle is "submerged"...as is County Road 36 which is just south and east of Smith Dam. EMA is trying to confirm a report of another bridge out near Bug Tussle.

Otherwise, weather slowly settling down across North and Central Alabama.

Flash Flood Warnings continue for about six counties but mainly for runoff. Rain does not seem heavy enough to cause additional flash flooding.

There was serious flash flooding earlier over North and NE Jefferson County and into Moody in St. Clair County. These notes...

.....Serious flooding along U. S. 411 in Moody. Many businesses had water in them and two or three car dealerships had water half way up the door. At a mobile home dealership, several of the mobile homes had water in them.

.....Three businesses in Trussville were flooded with eight inches of water.

.....Tornado Warning for NE Walker County between 6:21 and 6:45 pm. Later report from EMA via the NWS said that trees were down across the Jasper area.

.....Center Point Fire Department Station No. 1 was flooded for a time.

.....Weight of rain caused a collapse of part of a Center Point car dealership.

.....At one time, the Trussville City Hall was being evacuated according to the NWS.

.....Bill Murray reported 5.83 inches of rain from the storm at his home in South Trussville. This brings his total for the first 13 days of July to a whopping 12.74 inches!

.....Justin Hindman, the ABC 33/40 Weather Watcher for Trussville, reported 4.13 inches at his location between Trussville and Leeds.

.....At my location in the NE edge of Trussville, near Amerex, 2.80 inches had fallen by 8:15 tonight including 1.98 in less than 30 minutes. Accompanied by viscious lightning and cannon-sounding thunder. Water was over U. S. 11 between where I live and the intersection of Deerfoot parkway.