Ever heard this old, old Hale County saying?
“Rain, rain, don’t go away,
Stay with us another day.
“Rain, rain, stay with us a week,
We need to raise the level of Elliott’s Creek.”
Yes, there is an Elliott’s Creek. It drains part of the Talladega National Forest western division in NE Hale County. The creek runs through the south edge of Moundville and then joins the Black Warrior River.
And, no, you have never heard that old saying, because I just made it up. That is the first time I heard it, too.
Enough of the silly stuff, now down to business. We are still on schedule for a significant rain event across most of Alabama, especially the north and central portions. Some places may get more than 4 inches of rain by the end of this week. Don’t be surprised to see some flash flood warnings before this event is over.
At 8:00 this morning, showers had already overspread several counties in NW Alabama, including some moderate rain over the NW corner of the state and also in parts of Winston County. All of this is moving toward the east.
Rain is widespread over much of North and Central Mississippi, South Arkansas, extreme North Louisiana and NE Texas. It was pouring rain in some of those areas.
A SAMPLE RAIN AMOUNT
At Texarkana, where Arkansas and Texas join, 3.57 inches of rain has already occurred in the last 24 hours, including 2 additional inches since midnight. Thunderstorms were still in progress and a flash flood watch continues for that area as well as parts of Western Mississippi–at least until tonight. Most of the lightning activity at 8:00 was in the Texarkana area and also some over West Tennessee.
The NWS/Storm Prediction Center has posted a Slight Risk of severe weather today and tonight for North Louisiana, the north 2/3 of Mississippi and the north half of Alabama. It will be interesting to watch this possibility with all the rain-cooled air, but we shall see.
We will be burning the midnight oil much of this week.
