Limestone County officials noted no significant damage from the most recent severe weather and heavy rainfall that swept through North Alabama over the weekend, even as the area appears to be emerging from months of sustained drought conditions.

Quickly dissipating spot flooding and only small-scale power outages affected the area during the storms’ most severe period on Sunday, according to Limestone Emergency Management Officer Caleb King.

“There were no reports of damage or anything like that, and I think it was very sparse in terms of power outages,” King said Tuesday. “Overall, we received your normal amount of flooding.”

With a handful of isolated exceptions, most areas of Limestone County received 1.5 inches or more of rainfall during the Sunday-Monday period between March 30 and March 31, according to rainfall plot data recorded by the Birmingham office of the National Weather Service. The heaviest rainfall totals affected the county on Sunday, while the real soaking occurred farther west — where portions of Colbert and Franklin Counties were inundated with 2.5’’ or more of rain in the same 24-hour period.

Early spring rains have mitigated persisting drought conditions across Limestone and neighboring counties, which entered the year at or above the D2 “Severe” drought status according to the U.S. Drought monitor’s five-step drought assessment scale.

The service’s most recent weekly update, published March 27, registered no drought for any Alabama counties north of the Tennessee River or for any river-adjacent counties to the south, except for southern portions of DeKalb and Marshall Counties, which remain at the lowest D0 “Abnormally Dry” level.