Ida Landfall in Alabama, Record Rain in Panhandle

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10 November 2009

At 10 a.m., the Florida Division of Emergency Management reported:  Strong winds from Tropical Depression Ida are causing high rip current risks across South & Northeast Florida and moderate to high risks along the western Panhandle and FL Big Bend beaches. Moderate risks exist for East-central and West-central Florida as well. Swimming is not encouraged in these conditions.  A Small Craft Warning is in effect for all coastal Florida waters."

At 3:47 p.m., the Weather Channel reported:   "Ida made landfall in southern Alabama and is now a non-tropical area of low pressure that will eventually become a sizeable ocean storm in the western Atlantic Ocean later this week.

The heavy rain associated with Ida will continue to slowly move across the Southeast to the Mid-Atlantic states over the next two days. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 6 inches are likely from eastern Mississippi through the Carolinas by Wednesday night. Some locally higher amounts up to 8 inches are possible.

All residents of northeast Alabama, Georgia, Carolinas, to southeast Virginia will need to watch for localized flooding and flash flooding as the remnant of Ida moves toward the coast and then becomes a large ocean storm."

For more maps and projections on this storm, see the NOAA National Hurricane Center.