ALABAMA
* About 80% of Alabama now getting rain
* Heaviest rain in NE Alabama near Scottsboro and Fort Payne and also over the extreme Southwest.
* Flash Flood Watch continues for almost all of Alabama tonight and Wednesday.
* Lamar County EMA reports flash flooding underway at 6:18 pm with five roads under water and impassable near Vernon. Lamar County is adjacent to the Mississippi border.
REGIONAL
Showers and thunderstorms just as numerous in neighboring Mississippi, if not more so, especially across South Mississippi where numerous warnings were in effect,
* At least five Tornado Warnings were issued in Louisiana since 4:30 this afternoon from the NWS in New Orleans and Shreveport.
* A Tornado Watch is in effect for almost all of Louisiana and the south half of Mississippi
* Storm Prediction Center (SPC) keeps at least a slight risk of severe weather for all of Louisiana and Mississippi and the Southeast half of Arkansas.
* Within that slight risk area is an enhanced “moderate risk” for Central and South Louisiana and Southwest Mississippi
* For Wednesday, the SPC has posted a slight risk area for almost the south half of Alabama–generally from about US 80 southward and also for about the south half of Mississippi, Southeast Louisiana including New Orleans and Baton Rouge and the Florida Panhandle almost over to the Tallahassee area.
* Two tornado touchdowns (not major ones) so far in Lamar and Red River County in Extreme Northeast Texas.
More later…
