Sunday Afternoon Update--1:45 pm

Since it has been so dry for a time, let's go first to a roundup of Alabama rainfall amounts as of 1 o'clock this afternoon:

1.21 inches at Tuscaloosa Airport
2.17 at Birmingham Airport
1.55 in NE Trussville
2.14 SE of Trussville (toward Leeds)
1.26 at Shelby County Airport
1.18 in Greystone Cove (report from James Spann)
1.15 at Ashland (Clay County)
1.43 at Anniston Airport
1.58 at Anniston (Alabama Power Co, report)
1.18 at Bald Rock (St. Clair County near Cook Springs)
1.18 at Logan Martin Dam
1.34 at Cordova (Walker County)
1.55 at Hollins (Clay County)
1.04 at Newell (Randolph County)
0.70 in Oneonta
1.10 in Pell City

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 O'CLOCK TONIGHT FOR:
Extreme SW Alabama
Extreme SE Arkansas
North and NE Louisiana
Central and South Mississippi
Only two SW Alabama counties included (Choctaw and Washington)

HOW ALABAMA LOOKS AT 1:45 PM:
Raining from about the Fayette-Birmingham-Talladega-Roanoke line northward but mostly light to a few areas of moderate. No rain from Shelby County south to the coast at this time. There is a line of strong to severe thunderstorms across South Mississippi moving NE. Some individual storms ahead of the main line now entering West Alabama south of Livingston.