Late Afternoon Scan of Alabama--5:30 Report

Widely scattered thunderstorms continue across Alabama late this afternoon. They are all moving toward the WSW and some of those are still producing heavy rain.

At 5:15 pm, the most intense thunderstorms were over South Alabama approaching Camden and Monroeville. Buckets of rain from these storms.

Over the North central part of the state, the storms are not has heavy as earlier...but some are still strong enough to produce locally heavy rain. They were located:

.....Over Blount Countyboth north and south of Oneonta
.....Over Tuscaloosa County moving toward Tuscaloosa=Northport
.....Over Bibb County (those are lighter)

The Blount and Tuscaloosa County storms will produce lots of lightning, strong gusty winds and downpours of rain. Cloud be some street and road flooding with those.

The storm that wet down much of Shelby County in a hurry this afternoon movced into Bibb County and weakened. This is what happened in Shelby County this afternoon:

* Brian Peters reported 1.39 inches of rain in about 45 minutes and the temperature cooled to 69.0.
* Nathan Jones, also in Helena has 1.09 inches of rain quickly.
* Stephanie Honeycutt, 3340 Skywatcher in Alabaster had 0.88 rainfall and the temperature dropped to 71.
* At the 3340 studios in River Chase, the rain amounted to 0.42


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