This may be boring to some of you, but I feel it is necessary to list as much rain information as we can get our little fingers on from Sunday’s storms.
There were a number of wind damage reports Sunday at quite a few places across the Tennessee Valley and in Cherokee County on the east side of the state. One of the more interesting reports was near Heflin on I-20 near the Georgia border. The interestate was blocked by fallen trees and traffic was at a standstill for well over an hour. Probably a strong microburst, but the NWS will determine if a small tornado was involved also. Did have one report of a funnel cloud.
In my humble opinion, a larger percentage of the great Alabama countryside got rain Sunday than in a long time. Of course, some of the amounts were quite small. In those areas, the parched, thirsty earth slurped it down very quickly.
Finally, here are the totals. In some cases, we get more than one report from the same area. That is why the different amounts. Too bad the total for Ft. Payne Airport is missing. They had flash flooding in Ft. Payne Sunday afternoon.
1.85 inches in SW Huntsville, mostly in 45 minutes
2.64 UAH in Huntsville
0.72 DeSoto State Park
0.27 Tuscaloosa
1.23 Dothan
0.34 Huntsville Airport
1.43 Blountsville
0.46 Blount Springs
0.53 Collinsville
0.75 Cordova
0.95 Dearmandville (east of Anniston)
1.06 Ellisville (Cherokee County)
1.27 Ft. Payne (Alabama Power Substation)
0.72 Gaylesville (Cherokee County)
0.49 Oneonta
1.49 Pell City
0.53 Rock Run (Cherokee County)
0.62 Sylacauga
1.70 Holt Lock and Dam (east side of Tuscaloosa)
0.72 Vincent
0.03 Mumford
0.06 Gardendale
0.40 Columbiana
0.24 Northport
0.30 Demopolis
1.51 Anniston (Alabama Power)
1.70 North Auburn
0.44 Blue Pond (Cherokee County)
1.68 Ashville
0.34 Jackson Shoals (Talladega County)
0.14 Jordan Dam
2.51 Auburn (NWS report)
1.55 Dothan
0.26 Montgomery Dannelly Field
1.07 Troy
0.98 Meridianville
0.52 Crossville
0.03 Jemison
0.78 Selma
0.65 Bankhead Lock and Dam
1.22 Selden Lock and Dam
1.23 Demopolis Lock and Dam
0.62 Livingston
0.36 Hamilton
0.09 Clanton
0.55 Montgomery
0.03 Wadley
One big rain does not a drought break, but every little bit helps and yesterday was impressive.
ELSEWHERE
A real tragedy continues to unfold at Coffeeville. Not Coffeeville, Alabama, but Coffeeville, Kansas. It is in the SE part of that state at the junction of US-169 and US-166. The population is about 13,000–about the same size as Alabama’s Albertville. Much of the city is underwater. Even the mayor’s home was totally submerged. Massive evacuations. Adding to the tragedy is the fact that an oil refinery in town also flooded and oil from the refinery is mixing with the flood water.
SOUTH AND EAST TEXAS
These additional rain amounts in the last 24 hours:
1.66 inches at Tyler
4.64 Corpus Christi
4.24 Alice
3.97 Victoria
