The Big Rain Roundup

Do you suppose the drought is getting worried?

Or angry?

We sure have been putting it to him over the past several weeks with a number of good rain events. Here is a long list from last night’s storms and early today. It is inevitable that I overlooked a few and remember, we get more than one report from some communities which explains the differing amounts

0.93 Clay/Deerfoot Parkway
1.30 Smith Dam
0.61 Ashville
0.71 Blue Pond
1.22 Blountsville
1.03 Blount Springs
1.09 Clanton
1.15 Cordova
2.37 Carbon Hill
1.69 Haleyville
2.54 Jasper
1.05 Oak Grove
1.32 Oneonta
1.45 Sylacauga
0.75 Steele
1.01 Wilsonville
1.10 Roebuck
1.30 Clay/Pinson (Womack Road)
3.00 Tri-County area (Juncture of Jefferson, St. Clair, Blount County)
1.11 Ashby
1.17 Anniston Airport
1.15 Birmingham Airport
1.06 Mobile/Brookley Field
1.32 Shelby County Airport
1.21 Decatur
0.62 Evergreen
1.84 Huntsville Airport
0.93 Mobile Regional Airport
1.50 Montgomery/Dannelly Field
0.89 Muscle Shoals
0.41 Troy
1.82 Tuscaloosa Airport
1.12 Pinson
1.65 Selma
1.10 Ashland
0.63 Alexander City
0.85 Centreville
1.52 Hamilton
3.10 Jasper
1.25 Livingston
1.42 Oneonta
2.63 Sylacauga
1.48 Talladega
1.46 Fayette
1.22 Palmerdale
1.14 Cordova
1.99 Tallapoosa Water Plant
0.71 Centre
0.45 Gadsden
0.95 Childersburg
0.45 Lay Dam
0.58 Mitchell Dam
0.61 Jordan Dam
1.11 Ensley (West Birmingham)
1.00 Sayre
1.07 Bankhead Lock and Dam
1.10 Holt Dam
1.58 Oliver Dam (Tuscaloosa)
1.18 Selden Lock and Dam
2.10 Bevil Lock and Dam
1.13 Gainesville Lock and Dam
1.28 Demopolis Lock and Dam
1.48 Livingston
2.37 Bankhead National Forest
1.13 Crossville
1.21 Decatur
0.80 De Soto State Park
0.44 Ft. Payne Airport
2.50 Huntsville/UAH (NWS Office)
0.93 Meridianville
1.42 Cullman Airport
1.42 Remlap
1.14 Moody (approximate)
1.08 Auburn
1.25 Morris
1.10 Ashville
2.16 Muscadine
1.08 Trussville
1.02 Jemison
1.48 Union Grove (North Chilton County)
1.57 Coldwater (Coldwater Creek went out of its banks)
1.51 Oxford
0.89 Greystone Farms
3.00 Maplesville
1.80 Downtown Winfield
1.40 Remlap
1.50 Roanoke
1.05 Weaver
1.36 Cottondale
2.00 Hamilton
1.44 Noccalula
1.80 West Fayette
1.06 Concord/Hueytown
1.14 Kimberly
1.61 Coker
1.70 Clay
3.00 Blackwater/Macedonia
0.63 Reform
1.17 McCalla
1.45 Columbiana
1.40 Hokes Bluff
1.30 Brookwood
1.80 Vigo (East of Piedmont)

OTHER MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
* Sgt Matthew Romei, Fairfield Police Department, reports that high wind during the night blew an 18-wheeler into the median wall on I-59 southbound at mile marker 118. The truck driver was injured.

* 15 miles west of Hayneville (Lowndes County) residents were trapped for a time in their homes due to flood water in the Collirene.

* NWS Birmingham reports that the damage in Eutaw last night was due to an EF1 tornado. The NWS has two crews making damage surveys today.

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