While this storm won’t bring a significant risk for severe weather to southern states, we could see an isolated strong or severe storm later Saturday along the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Mississippi to North Florida to Alabama.
NEW ORLEANS – Torrential are drenching the Gulf Coast this weekend, providing much-needed relief to an area suffering from drought. However, the heavy rainfall in and parts of Florida has, at times, proved to be too much of a good thing.
Storms are expected to persist throughout Saturday morning and move over the same areas with lower intensity after sunrise, the National Weather Service said. Rainfall is expected to continue over most of the New Orleans area throughout the day.
were in effect through mid-Saturday morning in the Big Easy as a band of heavy rain parked over the city. Similar warnings were also issued around Harrison and Jackson, Mississippi, and parts of the Florida Panhandle as the system tracked to the northeast.
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New Orleans reported nearly 4 inches of rain overnight, with steady rains lingering into sunrise. Upwards of 8 inches of rain was reported in parts of the Florida Panhandle on Saturday, with the highest totals reported in a swath that stretched from Panama City on the coast to the inland town of Lee.
In addition to the flooding threat, some storms in Florida turned severe and prompted a few tornado warnings Saturday in Florida. However, the National Weather Service received only one report of a funnel cloud near the town of Hastings as of Saturday evening.
Sunday still soggy
While the threat of flooding and severe weather will be lower Sunday, wet weather is still going to create soggy conditions for many coastal locations across the South. An additional inch of rain is possible across parts of Florida, Alabama and Georgia through Monday.
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