Author Archives: J.B. Elliott
Severe Weather Tennessee Valley
Here is a quick round up of where the strongest storms in North Alabama were located as of 5:40 p.m.: Lamar and Fayette Counties in West Alabama–A Significant Alert for Fayette County until 6:15. North Marion County–It is pouring rain … Continue reading
Big Strong Storms Tennessee Valley
BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 512 PM CDT THU JUL 31 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE… NORTHWESTERN MADISON … Continue reading
Two Lines of Thunderstorms
We now have two lines of thunderstorms across North Alabama. The southward most line at 4:50 pm extended generally along the Fort Payne-Guntersville-Cullman-Jasper-Fayette-Vernon line. This line of storms has become disorganized in places and, overall is not as strong. Strongest … Continue reading
Thunderstorms Increasing
At 3:30 p.m., there were still no thunderstorms within a 35-mile radius of Birmingham, but some could form any minute. We now turn our attention to our north and NW where a line of thunderstorms extended all the way from … Continue reading
Alabama Update at 1:45pm
For most of today, showers and thunderstorms have been no-shows for a large part of North/Central, Central and South Alabama. That will change as the afternoon goes on and especially by late this afternoon and tonight. At midday, some scattered … Continue reading
High Noon in Alabama
Scattered showers and thunderstorms were developing over Northeast Alabama at mid-day. Most of them were from Calhoun County northward through Cherokee County to Dekalb County. Another way to describe the location–roughly from Anniston to Fort Payne. They extend into NW … Continue reading
Early Evening in Alabama–7:15 Report
A few strong storms on opposite sides of the state: * Near Bridgeport in the NE corner of the state. Moving NE 10. May produce dime-size hail and wind gusts to about 40 as it moves toward: ….Bridgeport ….Long Island … Continue reading
Late Afternoon in Alabama
No comparison whatsoever between late afternoon today and that of yesterday. Yesterday at this time we already had real weather problems. This afternoon the showers and a few thunderstorms are so widely separated that only a small percentage of the … Continue reading
Here We Go Again
For the third day in a row, some of the first thunderstorms over North Alabama developed in the Ft. Payne/Scottsboro area in the extreme NE. Already the storm in Jackson County had grown strong enough for the NWS in Huntsville … Continue reading
The Rain Parade
According to the latest survey, rain reports are now more popular in Alabama than football scores so here we go with another list. The storms yesterday dumped rain so fast in some areas that visibility was just a few feet. … Continue reading
