Most of the storms continue to be over West Alabama early this evening. Overall, the stronger storms were fewer in number and diminishing in strength. Some of the stronger ones were over Tuscaloosa County, mainly from the City of Tuscaloosa northward and over Western Fayette County including the Fayette area.
Lightning detection equipment showed that dangerous lightning has decreased quite a bit, but some was still firing away. The storms showed erratic movement. That gave some communities some time to get a lot of rain.
Meanwhile, over on the east side of the state, showers and storms were much fewer in number, In fact, the only moderate to heavy one was over Western Cherokee County near Centre.
A COUPLE OF NOTES NOT PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
* From Mountainboro in NW Etowah County on US-431 NW of Gadsden…2.46 inches of rain today, bringing the July total to 6.76 inches.
* From Rhonda Rush at 5:26 p.m. from the small town of Kansas in NW Walker County…by e-mail, she reports a huge limb blown off a tree, lots of debris on the roads and small tree limbs also down. There was a possible funnel cloud sighted just above the treetops.
* From Mike Lee, Cherokee County, via E-Mail to James Spann at 6:49 pm: James,
This is Mike Lee in Leesburg. I will get you some totals asap, but my rain gauge is running over. There are trees and power lines down in Sand Rock as well as some possible structure damage, there are trees down in the city of Leesburg, with some items wrapped around power poles, streets under water, Also Vechile Accident caused by weather with 1 injury and the Road blocked on Al HWY 273. We had pea sized Hail, and high winds for a breif period of shifting directions, a scary moment here. We noted a high pitched noise during the course of the shifting and high winds.
I will get you more information as I can,
Mike Lee
(We will try to assemble some rain amounts from today’s unusual storms and post them by around 8:00 p.m.)
