{"id":699811,"date":"2026-06-12T13:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699811\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:55:23","slug":"heavy-rainfall-and-possible-flooding-beginning-this-weekend-alabama-emergency-management-agency-ema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699811\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rainfall And Possible Flooding Beginning This Weekend \u2013 Alabama Emergency Management Agency (EMA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim Stefkovich, Meteorologist, Alabama Emergency Management Agency<\/p>\n<p>CLANTON \u2013 Thursday, 730 am, June 11, 2026<\/p>\n<p>After a dry day today, scattered thunderstorms are forecast to develop north of I-20 tomorrow afternoon and evening.\u00a0 Very heavy rainfall and a few wind gusts from 40-60 mph are possible.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-14575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/06-11-26-2-300x262.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"526\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms are forecast statewide from Saturday through at least next Wednesday.\u00a0 Especially by Sunday and continuing through the middle of next week, very heavy rainfall is expected, and a few storms each day could produce wind gusts from 40-60 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Although not continuous, total rainfall across the state through next Wednesday will generally be between 2 and 5 inches, and some locations could easily have double these amounts. Flood Watches may be needed this weekend or early next week.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a broad area of low pressure will likely form over the Bay of Campeche on Friday and move northwestward into the western Gulf.\u00a0 There is a 10% chance of development before the system moves into Mexico late Saturday or Sunday.\u00a0 No impacts will occur in Alabama.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-14576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/06-11-26-3-300x220.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jim Stefkovich, Meteorologist, Alabama Emergency Management Agency CLANTON \u2013 Thursday, 730 am, June 11, 2026 After a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-699811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}