A wide band of showers ahead of a cold front continues to spread into North and NW Alabama at midday. Almost all of the thunderstorms involved with this wide band of precipitation were over Central Louisiana.
At 12:15 p.m., the showers cover about the NW one-third of Alabama. The leading edge of the rain was as far east and south as Gadsden, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa and Carrollton. The heaviest rain early this afternoon was over Marion, Winston, Franklin, Lamar and Pickens Counties. Haleyville was reporting heavy rain with visibility down to one mile.
A few rain amounts as of 12 Noon and these are not necessarily the heaviest amounts:
0.47 Muscle Shoals Airport
0.23 Decatur
0.18 Huntsville
Over in NW Mississippi, Tunica had already received 1.26 inches by early this morning and Clarksdale 0.60.
Nice and warm down in South Alabama. Noon temperatures included 72 at Gulf Shores Airport and 74 in Mobile.
LAKE WIND ADVISORY
The NWS has posted one of those for a large number of counties in advance of this cold front. South and SW winds will be between 15 and 25 mph with occasional gusts to 30 or more. The winds will diminish this evening after the front goes by.
