7:15 am Alabama Update + Rainfall Amounts

Showers and thunderstorms have greatly diminished or ended over Extreme North Alabama. Especially across the Tennessee Valley.

However, at 7:15 am, numerous showers, some heavy, continued over a large part of Central Alabama. They were moving toward the ENE. There was also some lightning near the Alabama-Mississippi border.

The heaviest rain overnight was up over the NW counties where as much as two to three inches fell. There was some flash-flooding over several NW counties and, at one point, numerous roads flooded or even closed.

Examples of rainfall so far:

2.87 inches at Muscle Shoals Airport
1.50 at Decatur
1.36 at Huntsville
0.69 at Birmingham Airport
0.71 at Anniston
0.74 at Tuscaloosa
0.70 at Pinson
0.70 at Selma
0.85 at Ashland
0.66 at Alexander City
0.73 at Smith Dam
0.66 at Pell City
0.78 at Steele
1.01 at Mitchell Dam

The Greater Birmingham area will be subject to several more hours of off-and-on showers.

The 0.69 at Birmingham Airport brought the January total tp 4.93 inches, an excess of 1.03. We have not talked about rainfall excesses much in the last several months.
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on January 23, 2006, 7:54 am
Thunder and very bright lightning woke us up here in Shelby Co approx 2:30 am this morning. All of us except the baby, who slept like a log. go figure :)

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Posted by New Mike  
on January 23, 2006, 8:11 am
Stephanie,
Guess that's why it's called "Sleeping like a baby"!

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