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Regional Update at 10 o’clock Tonight

Line of moderate to heavy showers over NE Mississippi moving east rather slowly. Individual showers/storms in the line moving NNE more quickly. Lightning has decreased considerably in the last hour or so. Across Alabama there were several clusters of showers. … Continue reading →

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General Update at 6:45 pm

ALABAMA Strongest thunderstorms and heaviest rain was over the southwest part of the state from North Mobile County north through Washington County into South Choctaw County. Individual smaller but heavy showers over East Bibb and East Autauga County in Central … Continue reading →

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5:20 pm Quick Look

Strongest storms at 5:20 pm still west of Alabama. Especially over NW Mississippi. Flash Flood Warning for Marshall County in North Mississippi. Also an up date from the National Weather Service in Memphis: SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS … Continue reading →

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Alabama Update at 1:00pm

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 … Continue reading →

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Late Morning in Alabama

The east 1/3 of Alabama has received little or no rain today, but that will change as the afternoon goes on and especially tonight into Wednesday morning. At 10:20 a.m., most of the showers were over North/Central and West Alabama … Continue reading →

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Mr. Marco Moving Onshore

——————————————————————————————- BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM MARCO ADVISORY NUMBER 5 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL132008 1000 AM CDT TUE OCT 07 2008 …MARCO MAKES LANDFALL ON THE COAST OF MEXICO… AT 10 AM CDT…1500 UTC…THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS DISCONTINUED … Continue reading →

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Showers/storms Increasing

Showers, along with some thunderstorms were increasing mainly over the western part of Alabama this morning. At 8:30 am, showers were over Tuscaloosa and Walker County into East Mississippi. Some of those were moving into Jefferson County. This group of … Continue reading →

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Serious Flooding Alabama Coast

This warning from NWS/Mobile shows how serious the flash-flooding is now underway near the Alabama Coast–especially the Gulf Shores area: ——————————————————————————————- BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 630 AM CDT TUE OCT 7 … Continue reading →

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Early Tuesday in Alabama

LATE UPDATE AT 6:05 AM * As of 5:48 amFoley reports 3.20 inches of rain * Road blocks being set up in the Gulf Shores area It is 5:30 am and lots of people still snoozing and sneezing, but here … Continue reading →

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First Showers in Alabama

The main showers and thunderstorms that will give Alabama some good rain amounts were across Central Arkansas down into NE Texas early tonight. However, at 8:20 pm, a small cluster of showers was over SE Mississippi and SW Alabama. This … Continue reading →

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