Best Rain Event All Year–Updated

UPDATED 6 AM THURSDAY AUG 14 TO ADD GALLION REPORT

Extreme Northeast Alabama did not get much rain but a vast part of the state got a great rain event. I feel sure there is not a single square mile of dry soil. It is unlike we have seen in a long time for a summer month unless a tropical system was coming down the pike. If I overlooked some reports, or a correction is needed, please feel free to click on comments at the end of this report and add your report or correction:

5.80 Gallion (SW corner of Hale County about 5 miles east of Demopolis)
3.32 Geneva
1.00 Oxford near Trinity
1.99 Dauphin Island
0.67 Moody
1.44 Helena/Dearing Downs
3.40 Coaling
0.85 McCalla
2.45 Columbiana including 1.15 after 10 last night
0.31 Broomtown in Cherokee County
1.00 South Pinson/Carson-Red Hollow Road
2.08 Coker in West Tuscaloosa County
1.00 Concord/Hueytown
0.55 Trussville
0.36 Noccalula Falls
1.08 Pleasant Grove
1.02 Hueytown near High School
0.91 South Hueytown
0.79 Meadowbrook
1.99 Jemison
2.40 Union Grove, North Chilton County 3 miles ENE of Jemison
0.80 Clay/Pinson (Womack Road)
0.40 Scrougeout (High temp. 91 Monday but only 72 yesterday)
2.18 Cottondale
0.93 Hoover/Spain Park
2.00 Demopolis Skycam
0.08 Albertville
0.35 Bankhead National Forest
0.50 Crossville (the one in NE Alabama, not Lamar County)
0.55 Weaver
0.31 Decatur Airport
0.04 Fort Payne Airport
0.42 Huntsville Airport
0.26 Huntsville/UAH (Home of NWS, Huntsville)
0.11 Meridianville
0.38 Muscle Shoals Airport (record cool high of 74 yesterday)
0.48 Cullman Airport
Trace at Anniston Airport (100% sure that is an error, 0.69 at Oxford Skywatcher)
1.32 Auburn
0.57 Birmingham Airport (EXCESS exactly one inch as of today!)
0.64 Mobile/Brookley Field
1.78 Shelby County Airport (home of Birmingham NWS Office)
0.58 Dothan (incomplete because heavy rain as late as 9 am today)
2.74 Evergreen
0.86 Mobile Regional Airport
2.21 Montgomery/Dannelly Field
1.88 Tuscaloosa Airport
0.98 Pinson
3.91 Selma
1.32 Troy
0.69 Oxford
1.75 Northport
1.54 Shelby Shores (Lay Lake)
1.53 Demopolis Skycam
1.38 Odenville
0.75 Inverness Skywatcher
0.92 Bear Creek in NE Marion County
1.50 Hoover/Russett Woods
1.81 Marion
0.75 Gardendale
0.68 Roebuck in East Birmingham
0.70 Vinemont
0.69 South Hueytown
0.71 Rainbow City
0.02 Valley Head
0.35 Russellville Airport
0.10 Mentone, atop beautiful Lookout Mountain
0.50 Vigo east of Piedmont and home to an expert gardener
2.11 Ashby in East Bibb County south of Montevallo
0.30 Athens Water Plant
0.19 Courtland Airport
0.92 Cullman Agricultural Station
0.35 Fyffe
0.60 Guntersville
0.47 Harvest
0.24 Huntsville/Alabama A&M University
0.51 Madison
0.64 Russellville Airport
0.16 Hazel Green
0.09 Valley Head Water Board
0.20 Ft. Payne downtown
0.34 Grove Oak
0.16 Henagar
0.47 Hodges
1.11 Red Bay
0.09 Flat Rock
0.22 Scottsboro Lakeside
0.04 Widows Creek
0.26 Wilson Dam
0.25 Moulton TVA
0.16 Town Creek
0.32 Guntersville Dam
0.28 Falkville
1.85 Ashland
1.51 Alexander City
2.02 Centreville
1.91 Clanton
1.22 Hamilton
0.79 Jasper
2.35 Livingston
0.97 Oneonta
1.90 Opelika
1.93 Sylacauga
0.91 Talladega
1.13 Helena
0.84 Palmerdale
2.40 Plantersville
0.92 Childersburg
0.56 Cordova
0.73 Dearmandville
1.36 Horseshoe Bend
2.38 Wadley
1.55 Wilsonville
1.61 NE Trussville/Peppertree
0.99 NE Trussville/Old Mill Run

I must thank my wife, Judy, for letting me dictate some of this and other information. She can type as fast as a machine gun with almost no typos. Sometimes Little Miss Molly is sitting up on my desk watching in amazement or curled up asleep.

* Corrected the Vinemont total to 0.70 instead of 0.36

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