Classic Example of a Soaker

I have an idea that today’s widespread rain event was the biggest one since Hurricane Ivan wet down the state. Cannot be sure about that, but today was truly a red letter day for us.

Please remember that we get more than one report from some locations. I have tried to look back through all the reports until my eyes look like a checkerboard. So, I hope I have the latest report from each location. I will edit this later, if I see any mistakes and also to add some Skycam reports.

These reports are mainly from the 33/40 skywatchers, but I am also including reports form private individuals that are not part of a network and, of course, the official hourly reporting stations. Here we go:

3.07 Northwood Lake near Northport
1.70 Anniston Airport
0.96 Auburn
1.86 Birmingham Airport
2.50 Shelby County Airport (home of BHM/NWS)
0.28 Decatur
0.11 Dothan
0.89 Evergreen
0.24 Huntsville
0.93 Mobile Regional Airport
1.61 Montgomery/Dannelly Field)
0.59 Muscle Shoals
0.54 Troy
3.80 Tuscaloosa Airport (most ever recorded on a May 15)
1.44 Pinson
0.30 Albertville
0.63 Bankhead National Forest
0.96 Crossville
0.28 Decatur (The Tennessee Valley got cheated)
0.43 Ft. Payne Airport
0.24 Huntsville Airport
0.12 Huntsville/UAH (See what I mean?)
0.22 Meridianville
0.74 Cullman Airport
0.70 Vernon
1.81 Springville/Simmons Mountain
2.40 Hoover/Russet Woods
1.76 Hoover/Bluff Park
0.91 Jacksonville
2.13 Moody
1.52 SW Lamar County
1.17 Weaver
0.85 Centre
0.89 Muscadine
2.75 Tuscaloosa Skycam
1.74 South Pinson (Red Hollow/Carson Road)
3.35 Helena (Old Cahaba)
1.72 Demopolis Skycam
2.50 Riverchase (33/40 studios)
2.13 Helena (Brian Peters)
3.39 Tuscaloosa Airport
1.56 Pell City
1.85 Roebuck
1.31 Clay/Pinson (Womack Road)
1.73 Trussville/Peppertree (Thanks to Bob Alvis)
2.52 West Helena (Old Cahaba)
2.21 Moody
2.25 Calera (just south of Shelby County Airport)
2.14 Marion
1.31 SE Trussville
1.60 Macedona
1.50 Brilliant
2.60 Alexander City
1.01 Lincoln (3.51 since last Thursday)
2.65 Columbiana
1.40 Vigo (east of Piedmont)
2.05 Oxford
2.74 Hoover/near Spain Park (6.39 for the week)
2.93 Pleasant Grove
2.13 Ashby (since 6:30 a.m.)
1.65 Alabaster/Navajo Pines
3.00 Altadena
1.00 Vinemont
2.54 Inverness
2.37 Greystone Farms (24.06 for the year)
2.52 Chelsea (6.02 so far in May)
1.88 Jemison
1.93 Pleasant Grove
2.20 Hayden
2.31 Hueytown/Virginia Mines (27.10 for the year)
1.90 Concord/Hueytown
1.79 Oxford on the hill (heaviest in 14 months)
1.65 Alabaster
0.32 Bear Creek (NE Marion County)
1.69 Gardendale
2.37 Leeds/Moody
1.49 Black Creek
1.73 Noccalula Falls
2.04 Helena (off Highway 58)
1.57 Argo
1.33 Broomtown (North Cherokee County)
3.35 Old Cahaba/Helena
0.85 Centre
1.17 Weaver
0.89 Muscadine
1.56 Pell City
2.62 Ingramtown (Hale County between Havana and Lake Payne)
1.60 East Trussville (Jay Shelley, NWS/retired)

Please excuse me if I listed some twice. Went back and forth through the list a number of times to make sure I had the very latest report from individual locations. Sometimes we get progressive reports throughout the day from the skywatchers and I wanted to be sure I used the last one.

How about that for a rain event?

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