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8:30 pm in Alabama

Shortly after 8 o’clock tonight, NWS/Birmingham canceled the Severe Thunderstorm Watch for these counties: Bibb Blount Calhoun Chambers Cherokee Chilton Clay Cleburne Coosa Etowah Fayette Jefferson Lamar Marion Pickens Randolph Shelby St. Clair Talladega Tallapoosa Tuscaloosa Walker Winston NWS/Huntsville also … Continue reading →

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Alabama vs. Thunderstorms

It has been a stormy afternoon and evening. This is the situation just before 8 pm: Most numerous and strongest storms were over these West Central counties: Marengo North Choctaw Sumter Dallas Hale Greene NWS/Mobile issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning … Continue reading →

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Thunderboomers Rolling Along

NWS has issued a Special Weather Statement or “Significant Weather Alert for the following counties: Walker County until 7:30 Bibb, Chilton, Dallas and Perry until 7:45 And, the same thing for Fayette, Lamar and Pickens County until 8:15 pm. This … Continue reading →

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New West Alabama Warnings

The Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Jefferson, Tuscaloosa and Walker Counties was cancelled because the storms had weakened a bit. Severe Thunderstorm Warnings until 7:00 p.m. for the West Alabama counties of Greene, Hale, Marengo and Sumter. Meanwhile, NWS/Huntsville has issued … Continue reading →

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Flurry of Warnings

So many Severe Thunderstorm Warnings all afternoon, that it is very difficult to keep them all sorted out. Here is the latest. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning for these areas until 6:30: ….West/Central Jefferson County ….South/Central Walker County ….NE Tuscaloosa County … Continue reading →

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Our First Tropical Storm Forms!

BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM ARTHUR SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER 1 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL012008 100 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 2008 …TROPICAL STORM ARTHUR…FIRST STORM OF THE 2008 ATLANTIC SEASON…QUICKLY FORMS NEAR THE COAST OF BELIZE…ALREADY MOVING INLAND… AT … Continue reading →

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Isolated Showers

They developed this afternoon over parts of Jefferson, St. Clair and Etowah County. This included a moderate to heavy shower passing through the Birmingham area and moving NE. It was moving into the NE part of the city at 2:10 … Continue reading →

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Late Afternoon Quick Look

Widely spaced showers continue over Central and South Alabama late this afternoon. At 4:30: ….Several were along the Tuscaloosa-Bibb County line ….Others over West Coosa County ….Small cluster of small to heavy showers, Talladega County between Talladega and Sylacauga ….Scattered … Continue reading →

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Afternoon Development

A few showers developed in the Birmingham as early as noon today. At mid-afternoon, widely scattered ones were indicated across mainly South Jefferson, Shelby and Chilton County. Down south, they were a bit more numerous southeast of Montgomery down toward … Continue reading →

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Early Afternoon in Alabama

We did not get as many showers and thunderstorms this morning as we anticipated. The line of showers and storms seemed to partially dissipate by the time they reached Alabama, but there was plenty of rain across Central Mississippi this … Continue reading →

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