Early Afternoon Update

North and West Alabama are getting a break from rain, although some locally heavy showers continue over the NE corner of the state mainly in Jackson County.

The line of showers and thunderstorms producing the heavier rain extended at 12:30 this afternoon from NW Georgia down through East/Central and SE Alabama. In the Alabama portion of the line, the heaviest rain was across Eastern Chambers County southward to east of Troy and moving toward the east.

We will have a more complete list of rain amounts later this afternoon. Here is a sampling so far:

0.60 at Springville/Simmons Mountain (wind gusts to 29 mph)
0.98 Cordova
0.91 Carbon Hill
0.83 Haleyville
0.78 Jasper
0.80 Livingston
0.92 Sylacauga
0.28 Clay/Pinson (Womack Road)

WIND GUSTS
51 mph downtown Birmingham Skycam
51 mph Mt. Cheaha Skycam
37 mph downtown Tuscaloosa
43 mph Cullman Skycam

The main low-pressure area causing all of our problems today was centered over Central Tennessee SW of Nashville at noon. A cold front is swinging around that low. There are increasing indications that any showers or thunderstorms that form along the front may not be severe. There was some concern about that earlier. Check out this 12 Noon temperature profile starting in the SE and traveling NW:

76 degrees in Ozark
73 in Tuscaloosa and Columbus, Mississippi
52 Oxford, Mississippi
46 Memphis
40 Fayetteville, Arkansas
39 South Missouri

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