Flood Advisory for Birmingham Metro
Rainfall rates between 1-2 inches per hour are falling over the southern and western half of the Birmingham Metro area.
An approaching outflow boundary is bound to bring additional impetus for storms over the same areas as there are weak steering currents.
Heavy rain is now falling from Dolomite to Fairfield, Brighton, and Midfield, to areas west of I-65 including Powderly, Oxmoor and West End. It is raining heavily in Smithfield through much of the City of Birmingham over to Avondale.
It is pouring now between Cahaba Heights and Mountain Brook. Areas for Homewood south through Vestavia Hills are getting heavy rain as well.
Most of the lightning is over western Jefferson County, but there have been a couple of strikes and loud thunder in the 280 Corridor in Inverness and Meadowbrook up to Altadena Road.
Now the Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for a large chunk of Jefferson County bounded by Short Creek and Forestdale, Tarrant, Irondale, the Cahaba River, Bessemer and Rock Creek.
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