Very Severe Lightning and Rain By The Buckets

We are not intentionally ignoring Alberto...we will catch up on posts about him ASSAP.

Big thunderstorms continue to affect part of the Birmingham Metro.

Just before 4 pm, the most intense storms extended from Trussville in NE Jefferson down through East Jefferson into North Shelby. In Shelby County, the most intense storms are affecting a big chunk of U.S. 280.

Raining so hard that visibility is almost zero in places.

* Based on radar estimates, as much as 2.75 inches of rain may have fallen in the Helena area in one hour. Several reports of flooding.

* Two house firest reported from Helena due to severe lightning...the latest one in the Cox Cove area of helena.

* A blog reader, Cal, reported rain so heavy in Indian Springs at mid-afternoon that street lights came on and lightning was intense.

* Brian Peters reported that the lightning was some of the worst he has seen in a long, long time. (Helena) 1.96 inches of rain at his house with 5 or 6 power outages.

* 1.19 inches of rain at the 3340 studios at Riverchase...mostly ended.

* Sharp lightning and heavy rain now in NE Trussville

* Very heavy rain, sharp lightning earlier downtown near St. Vincent Hospital...also intense lightning.
Posted by  
on June 12, 2006, 3:19 pm
I got about 6 drops on my windshield when I went out for lunch today. That is all I've seen here in Oxford (around I-20, exit 188). It got very cloudy and I crossed my fingers... but that wasn't enough.

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Posted by Matt  
on June 12, 2006, 3:37 pm
It's now raining in downtown Montgomery, with a lot of thunder and some periodic cloud-to-ground lightning.

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