A Tornado Watch continues early this afternoon until 2:00 p.m. for a few counties over extreme SE Alabama. At midday, the NW half of Alabama is generally rain free. It is an opposite story over the SE part. By far, the heaviest rain, including thunderstorms, was over the extreme SE part of the state. It was raining heavily in places like Opp, Dothan and Ozark.
The line of thunderstorms was pushing SE very slowly, while the individual thunderstorms were moving toward the NE. They were dumping heavy rain over the central part of the NW Florida Panhandle, across extreme SE Alabama, into Central Georgia.
Meanwhile, well to the west, some new precipitation was spreading inland from the NW Gulf of Mexico into SE Texas and SW Louisiana.
At Dothan in extreme SE Alabama, almost 1 inch of rain has fallen since early this morning, including 0.43 in just the last hour. Thunderstorms were in progress at midday. At Ozark, a thunderstorm with heavy rain was in progress at noon. They received just under 1 inch of additional rain in just the last hour and an additional 1.41 inches since this morning. Troy reports a very impressive 2.64 inches of additional rain since 6:00 this morning. They were still getting moderate rain at noon.
The last 36 hours brought Alabama one of the most widespread drenching that we have seen in a long time, especially since almost every corner of the state shared the rain. We have posted a long list of rain amounts on the 33/40 Blog.
