Alabama at 4:30 pm

Thanks to Bill Murray for rescueing me this afternoon when I had to go on the air suddenly fir extended wall-to-wall radio coverage during tornado warnings,

Wild, wild day in Alabama weather. All of these ingredients in the weather casserole today:

Tornado Watch
Tornado Warnings (several)
Flash Flood Watch
Flash Flood Warnings (a number of those)
Major Flooding
Road closures
Torrential rains, almost tropical-like

Although there were several counties under tornado warnings, there was never a money-back guarantee that one occurred. They seemed to all be doppler indicated, No storm spotter sightnings.

At 4:40 this afternoon, that line of storms extended from the extreme NE around Centre southwestward to North Calhoun County, West Talladega County, to Columbiana, Centreville and Marion. It also represents the cold front. These examples:

72 degrees in Anniston vs. 59 in Birmingham
76 inMontgomery, 57 in Tuscaloosa

It has been a day of numerous flash-floods and excessive rain. We posted a long list of rain amounts on the blog earlier. We may try to update that this evening after the 6 pm reports come in.

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