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Afternoon Edition For Saturday May 12, 2007
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Many locations around the Birmingham Metro picked up beneficial rains
last night. The amounts are certainly well short of what is needed to
end the drought we are experiencing, but we will take everything that
we can get. Some of the amounts from last evening courtesy J.B.
Elliott, the Skywatchers and our friends at the National Weather
Service…

…2.49 on Rex Lake Road between Leeds and Irondale
…2.44 in Cahaba Heights (lots of rain around the Birmingham Zoo area
and Mountain Brook also)
…1.75 in Bluff Park
…0.88 in NE Trussville, 0.63 just SE of downtown Trussville
…0.54 at Calera
…0.38 at Pinson
…0.33 at the Birmingham Airport

MAIN EVENTMORE SCATTERED STORMS TODAY: After some morning fog in some
areas, sunny skies prevailed across much of Central Alabama at late
morning. They were slowest to break up over eastern St. Clair and
western Calhoun Counties. With lots of sunshine, temperatures will
rise well into the 80s through early afternoon, which will lead to
plenty of buoyant energy this afternoon. This will be aided by an
approaching cool front, which is entering northern Tennessee this
afternoon. Some of the more energetic storms could produce small hail
and strong, gusty winds. All will have dangerous lightning and there
will be locally heavy rainfall amounts. They will last well into the
night with the additional spark provided by the weak front.

TOMORROW GOING FORWARD: Drier air will filter into Central Alabama
tomorrow behind the front. This will lead to a reduction in the
number of showers and storms through Tuesday. A stronger front will
arrive on Wednesday, brining a good chance of showers and storms and
dropping our readings back into the comfortable 70s for highs, 50s for
lows for the latter part of the week.

ON THIS DATE IN 2000: Wisconsin was struck by one of its most
destructive storms ever as a morning severe thunderstorm caused over
$100 million in damage. The high precipitation supercell formed in
western Wisconsin and tracked across much of the state for the next 2
½ hours. Interestingly, the storm was elevated convection, meaning
that the source of the instability was not surface based. Such storms
can produce very large hail. Baseball sized hail fell in Waushara
County. The roofs of over 1,000 homes were damaged in the town of
Omro. Microburst winds caused extensive damage across Calumet and
Manitowoc Counties. Huge hail was driven through the sides of houses
by 80 mph winds in Chilton. St. Nazianz was heavily damaged by
microburst winds of 100 mph and two inch hail. A total of thirty
people were injured in the storm.

Bill Murray
billmurray@worldnet.att.net

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TONIGHT
Showers and storms ending this evening.
Overnight Low 66
WIND: Light

SUNDAY
Becoming mostly sunny and not as humid.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 86
WIND: NE 6-12

MONDAY
More sun than clouds. Just a slight chance of an afternoon or evening
shower or storm.
Morning Low 61 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SE 5-10

TUESDAY
Partly sunny. A small chance of afternoon and evening showers and storms.
Morning Low 63 Afternoon High 82
WIND: SE 5-10

WEDNESDAY
Rain and storms likely.
Morning Low 64 Afternoon High 79
WIND: SW 6-12

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