Early Morning Update

Here is a look at the Alabama weather situation at 5:36 a.m. on this Sunday morning…

Showers cover the southeastern two thirds of Alabama this morning as low pressure near Mobile rides northeast along our frontal boundary from Friday.

There was a sharp demarcation line running from near Pickensville in Pickens County to to Millport in Lamar County to Eldridge in Marion County to Double Springs in Winston County to Priceville in Morgan County. East of this line, rain was falling. The line does appear to be sliding slowly east, but hopefull as t he low approaches, that trend will be temporary.

It is mostly light rain over the northern half of the state, but there is a great deal of moderate rain embedded in the rain area. Over Central Alabama, the heaviest rain, and still moderate at best, was over Chilton, Perry, Autauga, Hale, Marengo, Dallas and southern Tuscaloosa Counties. Some moderate rain was over Northeast Alabama over Calhoun and Cleburne Counties.

Radar estimates of rainfall have been light across Central Alaabama, rainging from one tenth to one quarter inch with isolated one half inch amounts, some heavier amounts are beginning to show up over southwestern sections, including an area of 1.5 inch amounts from Wilcox into parts of Choctaw, Marengo and Sumter Counties.

0.20 inches in the old rainfall bucket here in Trussville as of 5:36 a.m.

A line of storms was over South Alabama from Bullock County near Union Springs to north of Troy across southern Montgomery and northern Pike County to northern Crenshaw near Luverne into southern Butler County near Greenville then to Conecuh County near Evergreen. Lots of lightning and heavy rain. This area of storms will proceed northeastward ahead of the low.

A severe thunderstorm warning was just issued for southern Crenshaw County around Luverne.

Some rainfall amounts of 1 to 1.5 inches per hour could occur with some of these vigorous storms.

Further north, there could be some embedded thunder through the morning hours as the some warmer air above the surface gets into the act and produces some elevated storms further north into Central Alabama.

Temperatures were in the middle and upper 40s across Central Alabama. The rain should continue through afternoon in most areas, and into the evening over eastern sections.

May everyone receive good rainfall…

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