Published on: August 18, 2007 at 5:26 AM

A family of showers and thunderstorms stayed together all night across Central Alabama giving a lot of communities generous rain amounts.

At 5:30 this morning, the showers/storms were clustered over the SW part of the state frrom about Livingston and Demopolis southward to Mobile and Baldwin County.

Heaviest rain was over West Choctaw County along the Mississippi border.

Moving SW

Generous rain amounts. Doppler estimates, not the final word, but a general guide, show as muc h as 6.20 inches in areas south of Montgomery.

MEAN DEAN
We will have fresh information about powerful Hurricane Dean poisted here around 6 am. Also look for the morning video discussion fom Brian Peters later this morning. That will be very interesting.

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