The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued another Flash Flood Warning that goes until 9:00 tonight for a number of counties in SE Mississippi and for three SW Alabama counties.
The Alabama counties:
Baldwin
Mobile
Washington
This includes such cities and towns as Chatom, Mobile and Dauphin Island.
The center of Gustav was over South/Central Louisiana this evening. He continues to pull in vast amounts of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico in the form of spiral bands. Showers and storms are forming as far away as 100 miles down over the Gulf of Mexico and curving north and NW across Baldwin, Mobile and Washington Counties. NWS believes that 3 to 5 inches of additional rain could fall in those three counties by 9:00 tonight.
Further north in Alabama, a lone heavy shower was in progress in the center of the state near where Bibb, Shelby and Chilton Counties join.
LOUISIANA
While we are at it, let’s give you these spot reports from Louisiana. These are 6:00 p.m. observations.
Alexandria…heavy rain, wind north 23 mph, gusts to 49
Oakdale…heavy rain, wind north 29, gusts to 48
Lake Charles…steady rain, wind NW 26, gusts 43
Baton Rouge…steady rain, wind east 39, gusts 58
Later this evening we will post some rain totals so far, not only for the SW Alabama counties, but those in Mississippi and Louisiana also. A number of places in South Louisiana may have received over 15 inches of rain so far.
