After coming ashore Monday, June 30th, just east of Morgan City, Louisiana as a tropical storm, the remnants of Bill continued to produce heavy rain throughout the southeastern US and mid-Atlantic region as the system tracked off to the northeast. The heaviest rainfall totals, as seen in the TRMM- based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, were along the Gulf Coast on the eastern side of where Bill made landfall. Some areas between and including from western Lousiana to the Florida panhandle received upwards of 10 inches of rain as depicted by the TRMM-based MPA in good agreement with local radar estimates. The low pressure center associated with Bill tracked north- eastward across western Louisiana, southern Mississippi, and central Alabama before merging with a stationary front over the western Carolinas. Broad areas of 2-4 inch rainfall amounts were observed from northern Alabama and central Georgia through the Carolinas and into northern Virginia with locally heavier amounts of 4-8 inches. Fortunately, the remnants of tropical storm Bill moved steadily across the southeast. This kept rainfall amounts from being even higher. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency NASDA.

See SMALLER [.3 mb] QUICKTIME ANIMATION of accumulation See MEDIUM 3-D [.8 mb] MPEG ANIMATION of accumulation

June 29, 2003 0000UTC - July 3, 2003 0900UTC Contour Analysis of Rain Accumulation
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