An amazing amount of rain continues to come down over extreme NW Alabama. An extremely heavy 2.83 inches of rain fell late this afternoon in only 1 hour at Muscle Shoals Airport and it is still raining heavily.
At 6:30, the strongest storms and heaviest rain was in the center of Lauderdale County down through East Colbert County into Eastern Franklin County. The NWS continues a Flash Flood Warning for Lauderdale County. The thunderstorms seemed to be redeveloping over some of the same area.
Well to the south of that, in Central Alabama, a strong storm was dumping very heavy rain in Central Coosa County moving SE toward the Rockford area.
Other heavy storms were over Lee County near Opelika and moving into NW Russell County. A strong storm in SE Elmore County was moving into Macon County near Tuskegee.
Some recent updated rain:
1.50 inches in North Florence
2.83 inches in only 1 hour at Muscle Shoals Airport
2.12 South Trussville (from our own Bill Murray)
1.03 in SW Trussville(near intersection of Queenstown and Mary Taylor Road
2.86 South Trussville (Roper Tunnel Road, basement and street flooded)
3.35 Trussville, just inside county line between I-59 and I-20)
0.51 NE Trussville (off US-11 across from Amerex)
Several inches of water reported over some roads in downtown Florence.
