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FULL FORECAST<\/a> | TURN ON WEATHER NOTIFICATIONS<\/a> | CURRENT WATCHES AND WARNINGS<\/a> | FIRST WARNING LIVE RADAR<\/a> | WAYS TO STAY SAFE IN SEVERE WEATHER<\/a> | UPLOAD YOUR WEATHER PHOTOS<\/a><\/p>\n A flash flood warning remains in effect for southeastern Jefferson and northern Shelby counties until 5:15 p.m. Saturday, as heavy thunderstorms continue to drench the region.<\/p>\n See the latest forecast in the video player above. <\/p>\n Local law enforcement reported ongoing, life-threatening flash flooding after 2 to 3.5 inches of rain fell across the area. The National Weather Service warns that creeks, streams, urban areas and highways are experiencing significant inundation.<\/p>\n Affected cities include Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia Hills and Bessemer. Officials are urging residents to move to higher ground immediately and reminding drivers to “turn around, don’t drown” when encountering flooded roadways.<\/p>\n Look below to see local impacts.<\/p>\n For the latest weather coverage for your area, click here<\/a>. And stay updated with alerts in the WVTM 13 app. You can download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":", Ala. \u2014 FULL FORECAST | TURN ON WEATHER NOTIFICATIONS | CURRENT WATCHES AND WARNINGS | FIRST WARNING…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5183,14854,24893,308705,4,450,27015,308710,175340,308703,1023,451,42703,308708,308701,113368,9043,308704,20460,308706,3,4752,59160,281294,42696,74702,88110,34470,308702,79374,452,453,155512,36763,308707,14512,199207,308709],"class_list":["post-716353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-alabama","tag-area","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-flooding","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dry","tag-early-afternoon","tag-flash-flood-warning","tag-flood-water","tag-flooding","tag-headlines","tag-heavy-rain","tag-heavy-thunderstorm","tag-hunt-cliff-road","tag-jefferson","tag-jefferson-county","tag-local-flooding","tag-morning","tag-neighborhood-flooding","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-road-closure","tag-road-flooding","tag-shelby-county","tag-standing-water","tag-storm-damage","tag-storms","tag-street-flooding","tag-sunday-afternoon","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-traffic-impact","tag-travel-disruption","tag-urban-flooding","tag-way","tag-weather-alert","tag-west-alabama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716353","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=716353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}