Early Evening Update

It has been pouring buckets today across Louisiana and southern Mississippi.

Radar estimates indicate a wide band of 4-6 inch rainfall amounts across Central Louisiana from about Lafayette up into Southwest Mississippi. Another heavy band is across extreme Southeast Louisiana. It is raining heavily at Boothville, Louisiana at this hour and a severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for Plaquemines Parish.

Rainfall is heavy across Southwest Mississippi, Southeast Louisiana and coastal Mississippi this evening.

At 6:30 p.m., showers were increasing over the northwestern quarter of Alabama from Pickens and Sumter County through Walker and Winston Counties, into the Tennessee Valley. Showers were over Northwest Alabama.

The heaviest showers were southeast of Arley in WInston County

More moderate to heavy rain was poised to enter West Central and Southwest Alabama. and in northern Pickens County north of Ethelsville and Reform.

The low pressure center is near Alexandria, Louisiana, near the center of the state. It is moving north northeast. This motion will continue overnight, carrying the center past Memphis and into western Ketucky tomorrow morning.

Rainfall will continue to increase and move northeastward out of Mississippi into Alabama overnight. One to two inches of rain is expected by the time a cold front pushes through the state tomorrow.

The warm front lies along I-12 in Southeast Louisiana tonight eastward offshore of the Mississippi and Alabama coasts. The northward surge of this front will delineate the main potential area for severe weather through tomorrow morning. We don’t expect it to make it very far northward over Southwest Alabama. It could make it as far northward as Sumter, Greene and Hale Counties overnight. North of that, there could be a few incidents of severe weather in the storms ahead of the front later tonight and tomorrow morning, but they should be isolated.

Alabama residents should pay close attention to later weather reports tonight, especially before retiring for bed.

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