How about 12.70 inches of rain!
Mind you, that is a radar estimate, but those are generally useful. Mind you number two, that 12.70 was over open water of the North Gulf not too far south of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach.
It is my humble opinion that the “monsoon” just off the Alabama coast today has interrupted the moisture stream for the interior part of Alabama. Even so, reports of 8-10 inches of rain early today around Gulf Shores caused significant flooding and some streets and roads to become barracaded.
All of this speculation does not mean that the rest of Alabama will be left high and dry. Almost no showers were occurring between Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile this afternoon, but there were quite a few showers over the north third of the state, especially from Walker and Cullman Counties northward. The heavier ones in that group extended from NW of Hamilton to near Moulton.
Meanwhile, off to the west a line of showers and storms across NE Mississippi down to South Mississippi and an even stronger line from East Louisiana down to off the SW coast of Louisiana. Bottom line: we still have a good chance of showers and thunderstorms overnight and into Wednesday morning for a good part of Alabama.
This is a bit of good news. The Storm Prediction Center, in their updated outlook, took down the slight risk of severe weather that they posted this morning for parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Alabama/Northwest Florida coastal area.
