A Quick Look At Central Alabama’s Weather At Midday

Conditions In Central Alabama Just Before The Noon Hour

As you can tell by the above image, the center of Alberto is beginning his final approach to the northwest Florida Gulf Coast, with landfall expected to take place just west of Panama City Beach very near to Laguna Beach within the next hour or two. Maximum sustained winds are forecasted to be around 60 MPH at landfall, with gusts up to 70 MPH possible.

Radar is showing at this point that the rain band that moved through the area earlier is still lingering around over the extreme northern and northwestern parts of Central Alabama. The heaviest downpour at this point is located over Jasper, while the rest of the band has diminished down to light rain. Another decent group of showers is located over portions of Sumter, Greene, and Pickens counties. All of these are creeping to the west around 10 MPH.

More tropical showers are starting to form into another rain band down in the southeastern corner of Central Alabama, with a few spotty showers to the north of those. These are generally moving to the west-northwest.

What To Expect Later This Afternoon And Into The Evening
Skies will continue to stay generally cloudy throughout the remainder of the afternoon and into the early evening hours, with more rain bands expected to move northward from Alberto. Some thunder can be expected in those rain bands, along with some heavy downpours at times. Afternoon highs should top out in the upper 70s to the lower 80s.

A Flash Flood Watch goes into effect for the eastern two-thirds of Central Alabama starting at 1:00 PM this afternoon and is set to expire at 7:00 PM Tuesday. We still have the potential for 4-6 inches of rain to fall over the counties in the watch, with the rest of the area with the possibility of 1-3 inches of rain.

There is a Slight Risk for severe storms for the remainder of today through 7:00 AM Tuesday defined in the southeastern parts of Central Alabama for locations east of a line from Troy (Pike Co.) to Daviston (Tallapoosa Co.) to Roanoke (Randolph Co.). A Marginal Risk for severe storms has been defined stretching westward from the slight risk area to a line stretching from roughly Montgomery to Goodwater (Coosa Co.) to Ranburne (Cleburne Co.). The main threat will be from gusty winds associated with Alberto, along with the possibility for a few spin-up tornadoes.

A Wind Advisory goes into effect at 1:00 PM today for Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery, Pike, Russell, and Tallapoosa counties. It is set to expire at 7:00 AM Tuesday. Winds of 20-30 MPH with gusts up to 40 MPH will be possible starting in the southeastern parts of the area and slide northward throughout the evening.

On This Day In Weather History
1987 – Thunderstorms produced torrential rains in Oklahoma and northern Texas. Lake Altus, OK, was deluged with nine inches of rain. Up to eight inches drenched northern Texas, and baseball size hail was reported north of Seminole and at Knickerbocker. Ten to 13 inch rains soaked central Oklahoma the last five days of May resulting in an estimated 65 million dollars damage, and forcing several thousand persons to evacuate their homes, many by boat or helicopter.

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