The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a Flood Warning for urban areas and small streams in… Southern Shelby County in central Alabama… Talladega County in east central Alabama… Until 115 AM CDT. thunderstorms. Flooding is already occurring in the warned area. Between 3 and 5 inches of rain have fallen.
Some locations that will experience flooding include… Alabaster, Oxford, Talladega, Sylacauga, Pell City, Calera, Montevallo, Childersburg, Columbiana, Wilsonville, Talladega Springs, Lincoln, Riverside, Vincent, Harpersville, Munford, Wilton, Oak Grove, Waldo and Bon Air.
Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are possible in the warned
area.
How much rain fell on Alabama Tuesday? Some cities got nearly 8 inches
Updated 12:30 PM;
Today 11:25 AM
Here s a look at 24-hour rain totals from 7 a.m. Tuesday until 7 a.m. Wednesday. Areas around Birmingham reported some of the most rain from Tuesday s storms.
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Lots and lots of rain for some.
It was enough rain to break records in several Alabama cities for May 4, according to the National Weather Service: Birmingham officially recorded 3.59 inches on Tuesday, breaking the record for May 4, which was 2.04 inches set in 1906. Huntsville got 3.25 inches, breaking the record of 2.11 inches set in 2013. Anniston had 2.97 inches, breaking the record of 2.75 inches set in 2009.
The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a Flash Flood Warning for… Calhoun County in east central Alabama… Northeastern Talladega County in east central Alabama… Southeastern Etowah County in northeastern Alabama… Until 230 PM CDT. heavy rain across the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. SOURCE…Doppler radar. highways, streets and underpasses as well as other drainage and low lying areas. Some locations that will experience flash flooding include… Anniston, Oxford, Pell City, Jacksonville, Leeds, Moody, Rainbow City, Piedmont, Springville, Odenville, West End-Cobb Town, Saks, Cobb Town, Fort McClellan, Lincoln, Glencoe, Margaret, Argo, Weaver and Ashville.
Southside investigators made an arrest Monday in connection with the robbery Saturday of a convenience store on Green Valley Road, according to Chief Blake Ragsdale.
Tyler DE Arrius Hill, 20, Leeds, has been charged with first-degree robbery. He was booked into the Etowah County Detention Center on $50,000 bond.
The robbery occurred at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday at the Marathon gas station, known as Woody s, at the intersection of Green Valley Road and Pilgrim s Rest Road, Capt. Jay Freeman said.
A man came into the store and pointed a gun at the clerk, demanded money, then took it and left the scene in a white four-door sedan that had been parked in the gravel drive behind the store.
Katlynn Jones Weaver Alabama woman killed by Alex L. Haynes of Oxford. Image via social media.
Katlynn Jones Weaver Alabama woman killed by Alex Haynes of Oxford who also shot woman’s 4 year old son in the head before killing self during police chase.
An
Alabama man is reported to have killed a young mother along with shooting her 4-year-old son, who survived, before fatally shooting himself during a police chase.
Katlynn M. Jones, 24, of
Jacksonville, Alabama, was discovered dead in her mobile home Saturday from multiple gunshot and stab wounds,
Weaver police
An unidentified person had called cops to report that