At 10:15, over half of the land area in Alabama was getting a break from the rain. This includes cities like Montgomery, Demopolis, Livingston, Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Gadsden, Huntsville and Florence.
Some better news–the line of intense thunderstorms that triggered some tornado warnings for SE Alabama in the last few hours has moved over into SW Georgia and it was approaching Tallahassee in North Florida. Still quite a bit of rain around Dothan, but that will diminish in about an hour or so. Also it was raining northward along the Georgia/Alabama border, but not real heavy stuff.
Satellite photographs indicate some thin spots in the overcast over part of west and NW Alabama. The atmosphere is still very moist, so it would not take a great deal of sunshine to help some other scattered thunderstorms to develop.
The action is definitely not over. We will be getting some more thunderstorms late today and tonight. We still think the most dangerous risk of severe weather (and what appears to be a significant threat) will be late tonight and Saturday morning.
All the new thunderstorms in the next 24 to 30 hours will also trigger some more flash flooding. In the last 24 hours alone, Montgomery has received 3.25 inches of rain and Selma 3.55. The entire state is dripping.
Stay tuned to this weather Blog. It will have a high volume of traffic in the 24 to 36 hours and we will try to keep you abreast of the main developments.
JUST TO COOL YOU OFF (10:00 a.m. Spot Reports)
19 degrees, Amarillo, Texas Panhandle, heavy snow, visibility 1/2 mile, wind chill zero, gusts 45 mph
21, Guymon, Oklahoma, wind north, gusting 36
32, freezing rain, Clinton, Oklahoma, gusts 39
A Blizzard Warning was in effect for the Texas Panhandle for today and tonight. Contrasting sharply to the Panhandle temperatures, it was 61 at 10:00 a.m. in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and in the 70s in South Texas.
