Big Boomers in East Alabama

July 28, 2005, 6:36 pm
Posted by J.B. Elliott in Severe Weather
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They extend from NE Alabama down into Coosa County and southward.

Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Coosa County in East Central Alabama until 8 pm. Storm was near Rockford taking it's time moving east at 5.

Not only danger of damaging wind, but tons of lightning and very heavy rain.

Not much going on around Birmingham-Tuscaloosa area.

But more storms developing over East Central Mississippi.

Some of today's rainfall amounts later

Hope you don't mind me writing in incomplete sentences. Can get information out quicker.

Also lessens the chance of typos.
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Posted by  
on July 28, 2005, 6:55 pm
Not much to write home about here in Helena again today but did finally rec'v .06 inches of rain in the bucket.

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on July 28, 2005, 7:27 pm
Nathan, I was wondering about Helena's rain after reading your posts. Here in the southern end of Pelham I still haven't had enough rain to completely wet my back patio. I don't have a gauge so I don't know exactly how much my house has received. I do know I drove through harder rain further north on 31 closer to the Pelham/Hoover line.

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on July 28, 2005, 7:49 pm
I didn't have enough rain fast enough to wet the driveway under the oak tree either. This was another day of good rains close by here but nothing to really make a difference. I noticed this afternoon the red clay was cracking in the yard.

Here's some numbers for my location in Helena this month.

8.63 inches for the month
Days 1-10: 4.75 inches
Days 11-20: 2.74 Inches
Days 21-28: 1.14 inches with 1.07 of that on the 21st.
Measurable rain on 17 of the 28 days so far with an 8 day stretch of rain from the 14th - 21st but only todays .07 inches in the last week.

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on July 28, 2005, 8:05 pm
JB:

Had only .26" of rain from the severe thunderstorm earlier here in the metropolis of Weogufka. Although during that rainfall, looking south towards Rockford, I saw the most impressive lightning show I have seen in maybe 10 years. Rapid fire lightning for 30 minutes, until the storm had cleared the area.

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