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Flood warnings stretched along the Gulf Coast from Florida's Panhandle into Mississippi as locally heavy rain June 11 threatened a repeat of weekend downpours and storms that damaged homes, blacked out a jail and spun off at least one tornado in Alabama.
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Tori Davenport holds her grandson Josias Henry while helping her daughter clean up damage in her Forest Creek apartment from the recent record setting rainfall in Pensacola, Florida, June 11, 2012. Flood warnings reached across the panhandle of Florida into southern Mississippi on Monday as downpours added to damage from Saturday's record setting rainfall. REUTERS/Michael Spooneybarger (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)
(L to R) James Smith, 23, Gregory Henderson, 27, and Jeremy Neal, 24, clean up debris at Vick's Cleaners Laundry from the recent record setting rainfall in Pensacola, Florida, June 11, 2012. Flood warnings reached across the panhandle of Florida into southern Mississippi on Monday as downpours added to damage from Saturday's record setting rainfall. REUTERS/Michael Spooneybarger (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)
Chris Mandel, 14, makes his way through a parking lot in the Warrington area of Pensacola Florida, June 9, 2012. REUTERS/Michael Spooneybarger
A funnel cloud appears in the distance in Level Plains, Ala., near U.S. Highway 84 and Dale County Road 1, Sunday, June 10, 2012. The area was under a tornado warning until 12:15 p.m. There is no official word of any injuries. (AP Photo/Dothan Eagle, Max Oden)
In this photo provided by the Escambia County Sheriff00eds Department, floodwater surrounds the Escambia County Jail, Sunday, June 10, 2012, in Escambia County, in Florida. More than 600 inmates at the jail were without power and air conditioning after the rains left more than 5-feet of water in the bottom floor, which also houses the laundry and kitchen facilities. (AP Photo/Escambia County Sheriff's Department)
In this Saturday, June 9, 2012 photo provided by the Escambia County Sheriff00ccs Department, people wade through high floodwaters near a sheriff's department vehicle, in Escambia County. Floodwaters from torrential rains damaged homes and closed roads throughout the Florida Panhandle, cutting power to the county jail and sending residents to emergency shelters as the area braced for additional rains Sunday. (AP Photo/Escambia County Sheriff's Department)
Forest Creek apartment resident Calvin Grace returns from checking on the flooding conditions in his unit Sunday, June 10, 2012, after receiving nearly two feet of water on Saturday, in Pensacola, Fla. Floodwaters from torrential rains damaged homes and closed roads throughout the Florida Panhandle, cutting power to the county jail and sending residents to emergency shelters as the area braced for additional rains Sunday. (AP Photo/The Pensacola News Journal, Tony Giberson)
A section of Oak Valley Drive in Escambia County, Fla., is washed out on Sunday, June 10, 2012, after heavy rains fell on Saturday, in Pensacola, Fla. Floodwaters from torrential rains damaged homes and closed roads throughout the Florida Panhandle, cutting power to the county jail and sending residents to emergency shelters as the area braced for additional rains Sunday. (AP Photo/The Pensacola News Journal, Tony Giberson)