Evening Weather Check--8:20 pm Report

The strongest thunderstorms at 8:20 tonight were along the Dallas/Wilcox County line. Still producing very heavy rain and lots of dangerous lightning.

When the big thunderstorm, loaded with lightning, moved through the Montgomery area earlier this evening, David Baxley, Meteorologist with WAKA-TV described the lightning as the "worst he has seen"

These rainfall amounts for the last 12 hours, since 6 oclock this morning:
1.81 inches in Alexander City
1.86 in Jemison
0.74 in North Auburn
0.49 in Clanton
0.87 at Horseshoe bend
0.49 at Sylacauga
0.75 at Holt Dam (east side of Tuscaloosa)
0.66 at Vincent
0.35 at Jordan Dam
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on August 11, 2006, 8:57 pm
AMEN on that Lightning I was headed north on I65 during that storm - VERY intense!

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