Storms continue to bubble across parts of Central Alabama…while a large complex of storms over eastern Mississippi leaks into West Central Alabama.
At 8:05 p.m., storms were over much of St. Clair County, heaviest in the area between Ashville, Ragland, Ohatchee and Southside in Etowah County. An isolated storm was over Northeast Jefferson County north of Clay. That storm has already peaked.
A new storm is over Calhoun County north of Heflin.
A large area of moderate rain was entering West Alabama Sumter and Pickens Counties, down into Choctaw County. The heaviest rain was between Eppes and Gainesville. This activity is slowly weakening.
A flash flood warning remains in effect for parts of Kemper, Noxubee and Lauderdale Counties in East Mississippi, where Doppler Radar indicates as much as 3-5 inches of rain may have fallen this evening.
Those rainfall amounts may be a forerunner of what some areas will see this weekend in Central Alabama, especially on Sunday. We could use the rain.
All of the activity will diminish as we head through the evening hours.
