Flash Flood Warning Issued for Lamar County

Heavy rain is moving southward over Lamar County, so the NWS is issuing a flash flood warning.

Flooding occurs very easily in many parts of Lamar County.

Please, if you will be driving over the next couple of hours in Lamar County, especially in some of the more flood prone areas, do not go into areas of standing or flowing water. It doesn’t take much flowing water to knock you off your feet and about one foot of water can sweep away a vehicle.

Our areas of rain and storms has overspread North Alabama and is working southward into North Central Alabama early this morning.

It will probably reach the I-20 corridor and stall out somewhere near or south of it around sunrise.

We notice that the storms have spit out an outflow boundary in the past hour which now extends across Central Walker and northern Jefferson Counties. This means the storms will go downhill now.

The SPC has outlooked much of North and Central Alabama in a slight risk area for today. This is for this afternoon as a cold front comes calling. It will trigger another round of showers and storms. The risk area extends down to a line from Butler to Montgomery to Opelika. The extensive cloud cover and cooler temperatures from this morning’s rains may help to limit the severe weather threat for northern sections of the area. We will have to see how the situation unfolds. But in any case, if storms get going, they could produce damaging wind gusts and some reports of large hail later today in the slight risk area.

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BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
318 AM CDT FRI AUG 17 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR…
LAMAR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA…

* UNTIL 630 AM CDT

* AT 316 AM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED SLOW MOVING
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. ONE
TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 630 AM. THE TYPICAL
TROUBLE SPOTS ARE RIVER ROAD NEAR SULLIGENT…OAK ROAD NEAR
DETROIT…HAWKINGS HOLLOW ROAD NEAR HENSON SPRINGS…AND HIGHWAY 17
IN VERNON.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE…
MILLPORT…SULLIGENT…VERNON…BEAVERTON…BEDFORD…BLOOMING
GROVE…CREWS…DETROIT…KENNEDY AND LAMAR COUNTY AIRPORT.



Category: Alabama's Weather, Severe Weather