Early Evening Update--6:45 Report

February 22, 2006, 7:03 pm
Posted by J.B. Elliott in Weather Discussions
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Strongest thunderstorms at 6:45 way down in Central Alabama from NW Elmore County across SE Coosa County into Tallapoosa County.

Storms not as strong as earlier. Moving east.

So far we have no confirmed reports of damage in the three tornado warnings for Perry, Chilton and Autuga Counties.

The last warning, Autauga County, expired at 6:45.

The Tuscaloosa-Birmingham-Centreville area, among others, are getting a temporary break from the rain, but more widespread rain covers much of North Alabama from Fayette, Jasper and Cullman northward. Movement was generally east, but the whole zone of rain is gradually shifting SE.

SOME ACTUAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS:

1.32 inches at Anniston Airport
1.18 at Birmingham Airport
0.59 at Shelby County Airport
0.67 at Tuscaloosa Airport
1.42 in Pinson
1.47 in NE Trussville
1.21 at Bankhead Lock and Dam
0.89 at Carbon Hill
1.46 at Dearmanville (east of Anniston)
1.15 at Pell City
1.18 at ABC 33/40 in Riverchase
1.54 in Cahaba Heights
1.32 along the Hueytown-Concord line
1.50 in Hueytown/Virginia Mines
1.28 in Cottondale
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Posted by Rusty Pitts  
on February 22, 2006, 7:21 pm
Well Jb, I have just signed up as weather watcher with my new equipment. and have it all set up .. So here are my numbers from Sprinville On top of Simmons Mountain.

Temp:53.4

Wind chill of 53.4

Humidity: 92%

Wind out of the NE at 3.2 Peak Gust of 7.8 from 112degrees

Dewpoint of 51.1

Pressure of 28.80In. and falling...

Rainfall 1.36 in

Well there we go .... I am getting the computer software this week to keep running logs of all weather info ... I wonder how much a Dopler would cost to get mounted on top of the Roof...????




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Posted by  
on February 22, 2006, 7:28 pm
Approxmately what the lottery winners in Lincoln are getting.

Congrats on your new station. Simmons Mountain is awfully pretty...had friends who lived near the top

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Posted by Rusty Pitts  
on February 22, 2006, 10:04 pm
Jb Yeah..It is nice to get hte new station... all the bells and whistles... I have had to schange the default settings , the other night the alarm went off when we fell below 32 degrees and I didnt know what was going on ... I guess the manual would be a good place to start , but you know how we men are when it comes to reading the directions.... And yes it is Beautiful up here... It is a brand new subdivision called Middle Ridge and we were the first to build in here ... We are almost at the peak of the mountain and as a matter of fact , when I am looking through my telescope some nights , i Lok at the flashing lights on the top of the mountain which is directly across from our subdivision... It is a wonderful place, we are closs enough to get to where we are going but stillhave the comforts of being out in the woods.. We have about 8 deer that frequesnt the yard every night for their nightly feeding of corn... We have a covered back deck and I will sit out there and just listen to them as they move up the mountainside and come into the back yard.... Luckily stephanies husband isnt around here, or one of those arrows could fall out of a tree and get one of them ...... HHAHA...

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Posted by Anna  
on February 22, 2006, 8:26 pm
Any idea on rain amounts in Cullman County??? Feel like we need to build an ark!! LOL!!

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Posted by   www
on February 22, 2006, 8:32 pm
As of 8:22 p.m., we have had .79" of rain today in Vinemont in northern Cullman County.

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Posted by   www
on February 22, 2006, 8:38 pm
Down here in Chilton County too...
a real toad strangler.

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Posted by   www
on February 22, 2006, 8:53 pm
Ok John B.......

I HAVE to ask......

What is a "toad strangler" ?? LOL

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Posted by   www
on February 22, 2006, 8:57 pm
Nevermind..... my curiosity got the better of me and I googled the expression.

For others who may not know it, "a real toad strangler" means that the rain is coming down so hard you cannot see.

If I were in Chilton Co right now, I think I would be in a nice deep sleep :)

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Posted by   www
on February 22, 2006, 9:07 pm
Yep....toad strangler.
Enough to make you get out your high water britches :)
Sorry, I couldn't stop ... I'm on a roll.

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Posted by  
on February 22, 2006, 9:40 pm
Hey Stephanie I thought you knew what a toad strangler was LOL :):) I knew what it was.

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