A tornado threat continues across the southern half of the Tornado Watch area. At this time a new watch does not appear warranted downstream into Georgia, but one may be needed later this evening.
While much of the I-65 corridor is getting a little break in the action for a few minutes, we continue to have a mass of rain and thunderstorms covering much of North/Central Alabama, with the stronger storms occurring over portions of Bullock, Macon, Lee, and Russell counties at the moment.
NWS Birmingham has removed Greene, Hale, Perry, and Sumter counties from the Tornado Watch as the threat for severe storms has ended for now.
At 736 PM CDT, Doppler radar and automated gauges indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Three to five inches of rain have fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
It appears that two distinct boundaries and in the vicinity of south-central Alabama this evening. One boundary is generally the remnant outflows from convection last night through this evening and the second boundary is the actual warm front.
At 714 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Vida Junction to 9 miles northeast of Pine Apple. Movement was east at 40 mph.
At 657 PM CDT, thunderstorms will continue to move across the warned area this evening. Automated stream gauges are showing an increasing threat due to the persistent rainfall. Some flooding is expected across the warned area through the evening as total rainfall amounts may exceed 5 inches in some locations.
At 635 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from Benton to 10 miles southwest of Gordonville, moving east at 45 mph.
At 618 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Dallas Lake to 10 miles southeast of Dannelly Reservoir. The movement was east at 40 mph. Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with these storms.
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At 554 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located 7 miles southwest of Putnam, or 8 miles southeast of Butler, moving east at 50 mph.
Tornado threat continues across the southern two-thirds of the Tornado Watch area.
As of 5:30 pm, a line of stronger to severe storms are affecting multiple counties in the southern part of the area. Sumter, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Dallas, Chilton, Autauga, Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa, Lee, and Chambers counties can expect heavy rainfall, frequent lightning, gusty winds up to and exceeding 40 MPH, and some small hail is possible.
NWS Birmingham extends the area of the Tornado Watch to now include Lee County and continues the watch for Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Dallas, Elmore, Greene, Hale, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Montgomery, Perry, Pike, Russell, Sumter counties until 11:00 pm.
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