HELP!!!

[Brent]

It's coming a flood here... if your going to be anywhere near Central Alabama your going to need an ark to get around. It has been stormy with torrential rain since around 1am. It let up a little around 2:30am long enough for me to go to sleep and now it's bad again. Terrible lightning/thunder. We just had almost 6 inches of rain over the weekend and DO NOT need more! We're going to have some serious river flooding if this keeps up much longer.

[jeff]

:eek:

It's coming a flood here... if your going to be anywhere near Central Alabama your going to need an ark to get around. It has been stormy with torrential rain since around 1am. It let up a little around 2:30am long enough for me to go to sleep and now it's bad again. Terrible lightning/thunder. We just had almost 6 inches of rain over the weekend and DO NOT need more! We're going to have some serious river flooding if this keeps up much longer.

Flash Flood event ongoing over S and C AL, W GA, and SE MS from slow moving MCS. 88D rainfall totals since yesterday evening range from a widespread 1-3 inches to scatered 4-5 inch amounts. This is on top of widespread 2-4 inch amounts this past weekend. In fact overnight totals are topping 6-7 inches over Covington and Jefferson Davis counties in MS.

Repeat cell training from the SW to the NE along with deep layered moisture and high PWS should continue to produce excessive rainfall along the leading edge of the MCS through the early morning. Satellite trends suggest an overall cloud top warming and this is usuall during thw weakening phase of morning convection. Hardest hit areas should begin to see the rainfall taper off by mid morning as the best low level inflow and moisture convergence fouses along the outflow boundary just inland from the coast.

[Brent]

Satellite trends suggest an overall cloud top warming and this is usuall during thw weakening phase of morning convection. Hardest hit areas should begin to see the rainfall taper off by mid morning as the best low level inflow and moisture convergence fouses along the outflow boundary just inland from the coast.

Good... but I'm worried about it coming again tonight/tomorrow.

[Brett Adair]

Satellite trends suggest an overall cloud top warming and this is usuall during thw weakening phase of morning convection. Hardest hit areas should begin to see the rainfall taper off by mid morning as the best low level inflow and moisture convergence fouses along the outflow boundary just inland from the coast.

Good... but I'm worried about it coming again tonight/tomorrow.

Yeah, Brent I was in the thick of it all night long. I had about 6 different marble size hail events and it was wicked! So far....5.82" of rainfall! The back yard is a freakin marina. Better get out the bass boat. Looks like the fish are jumpin'.

[JuliannaMKH]

Y'all ain't just whistlin' Dixie. There's a huge sinkhole on one of the main roads going through Prattville. We've got minor flooding everywhere and the morning commute was, to say the least, an adventure. I woke up sometime in the middle of the night and it looked like a strobe light was going off outside the windows. The lightning was amazing.

[Brett Adair]

Y'all ain't just whistlin' Dixie. There's a huge sinkhole on one of the main roads going through Prattville. We've got minor flooding everywhere and the morning commute was, to say the least, an adventure. I woke up sometime in the middle of the night and it looked like a strobe light was going off outside the windows. The lightning was amazing.

Yeah, there is some damage also in the FairHope and Prattville area. Mainly tree and power line.

BUT, look at what happened in Selma...

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0545 AM     TSTM WND DMG     SELMA                   32.42N 87.03W
03/31/2005                   DALLAS             AL   EMERGENCY MNGR 

            SELMA MANUFACTORING PLANT HAD ROOF CAVE IN. MULTIPLE CARS
            HAD THEIR WINDOWS BROKEN OUT. SEVERAL TREES DOWN ALSO IN
            THE AREA.


[JuliannaMKH]

Yeah, I saw that stuff about Selma on the Today show and looked up the damage reports. Scary stuff!