Severe Weather

Spiller Furniture and Mattress and Townsquare Media Tuscaloosa are teaming up to provide relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana.

With the outskirts of Hurricane Ida potentially causing four to six inches of rain and flooding in Tuscaloosa, here are some ways to send help to our neighbors experiencing the storm directly.

Hurricane Ida could bring heavy rainfall, strong winds and isolated tornadoes to Tuscaloosa and West Alabama after causing devastation along the Louisiana coast.

As conditions change, The Tuscaloosa Thread will continue to monitor the situation closely.

The City of Tuscaloosa has reported 14 sanitary sewer overflows to ADEM within the past 24 hours after Tropical Storm Claudette brought torrential rainfall to the Druid City.

Newly-named Tropical Storm Claudette made landfall early Saturday morning and is expected to bring heavy rainfall to Tuscaloosa and West Alabama this weekend.

A tropical low in the Gulf of Mexico is set to bring heavy rainfall to much of Alabama this weekend, and showers could arrive in Tuscaloosa as early as Saturday morning.

Tropical System 3 could bring strong winds and heavy rainfall to Tuscaloosa Saturday after making landfall on the Gulf Coast tonight.

Several events planned in the Druid City this weekend have been cancelled or postponed as a tropical system is set to bring heavy rainfall to Alabama.

The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a Flash Flood Watch ahead of a tropical system that could bring as much as six inches of rain to West Alabama.