Storms Weakening

March 9, 2006, 6:49 pm
Posted by Bill Murray in General Thoughts
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Storms are weakening as they move east into more stable air tonight...

The thin line of storms is still packing a punch, though with strong gusty winds in front of and along the line. It extends from DeKalb and Jackson Counties (where Huntsville maintains a severe thunderstorm warning) through the city of Gadsden then to just west of Pell City to eastern Shelby County near Vincent and Harpersville to near Columbiana to west of Jemison and Maplesville.

No warnings are in effect at this time for Central Alabama.

A severe thunderstorm watch does remain in effect ahead of the line, however. Counties are being cleared as soon as the line passes.

The National Weather Service has announced they will be sending crews to Lamar, Marion, Fayette, Winston and Walker Counties tomorrow to survey damage from today's storms.
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Posted by  
on March 9, 2006, 7:12 pm
Well the line of storms came in and when it did the rain was hard I had a wind gust of 32 M.P.H.
Right now it's light rain temperature is down to 54.0
Pressure 29.73 and risning fast dewpoint 50.0
total rainfall so far 0.68.

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Posted by   www
on March 9, 2006, 7:18 pm
Pretty quiet here now..just light rain and wind, an occasional gust. Nothing like a couple of hours ago though. Very little lighting here just before the heavy rain. Water standing in the yard, haven't checked the guage..mine's outside and I don't feel like getting drenched!
Thanks for all the hard work guys..everybody give a prayer up for those who had damage. Thankfully it was not any worse..

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Posted by John T.  
on March 9, 2006, 7:26 pm
Thanks Bill for a very good job working the blog sir !

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Posted by   www
on March 9, 2006, 7:33 pm
Thank you everyone for the coverage and updates on the blog, thanks to those that posted conditions, very interesting to here. James, Bill, and JB you all did a great job on the first real threat of severe weather this season Hats off to everybody. Remember! even that there was considerable damage in west AL, it could have been much worse!

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Posted by  
on March 9, 2006, 7:40 pm
Great job guys for the work you did today. My hat is off to the 33/40 weather team. Also I think we can stop with the weather observations. I think "blog rules" states that we do not do that.

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Posted by John T.  
on March 9, 2006, 8:12 pm
I agree with that for the ones that would post every couple of minutes , but for spot reports , and the one that don't normally give reports I think those are ok and appreciated . After all , that is partically what a weather blog is for . Just would not get carried away .

If I'm mistaken someone from the weather team correct me .

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