More Rain Moving In

Brian Peters | February 12, 2013 @ 9:42 am

A look at the radar image below and you can see that more rain is moving into Central Alabama. Flash flood watches are in effect for almost all of Alabama with the exception of the Tennessee Valley counties as well as Cullman, Blount, Etowah, Cherokee, Walker, Winston, Marion, Fayette, and Lamar.

Flash flood watches:

Alabama Flash Flood Watches

Columbus Weather Radar

According to storm total estimates from Columbus and Jackson radars, 1-hour storm totals are between 0.50 inch and 1.25 inches. This coming on top of the 2 to 4 inches of rain that Central Alabama has received in the last couple of days.

Flash flood warnings have also been issued for Clark, Choctaw, and Wilcox counties in Southwest Alabama and Wayne County Mississippi. Central Mississippi counties of Copiah and northern Simpson were also under flash flood warnings.

If you are traveling in the rain, do not drive into areas where water covers the roadway to an unknown depth. Three-quarters of all flash flood deaths involve automobiles.

-Brian-

Category: Alabama's Weather

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Brian Peters is one of the television meteorologists at ABC3340 in Birmingham and a retired NWS Warning Coordination Meteorologist. He handles the weekend Weather Xtreme Videos and forecast discussion and is the Webmaster for the popular WeatherBrains podcast.