The NWS has issued a Tornado Watch until 1:00 a.m. CST for a large part of North and West Alabama. The Tornado Watch extends as far east as approximately the Scottsboro, Gadsden, Birmingham, Greensboro line. In the greater Birmingham area, … Continue reading →

Intense thunderstorms continue marching eastward towards some West and NW Alabama counties. Some of the more intense thunderstorms will reach places like Marion and Lamar Counties by 7:00 this evening. TORNADO WATCH POSSIBLE The Storm Prediction Center indicates that a … Continue reading →

A line of intense thunderstorms continues eastward across North and West Mississippi tonight. Some of the most intense ones were over the north/central part of that state. Tornado Watches continue for a large part of North and Central Mississippi. These … Continue reading →

The Storm Prediction Center has extended eastward a Tornado Watch and also the expiration time is at 9:00 tonight. The Tornado Watch covers extreme East Arkansas, about the north third of Mississippi, the west half of Tennessee and the west … Continue reading →

It is still well to the west of Alabama but some of those storms will move across the Birmingham area tonight. We think the severe weather threat will lessen greatly by that time but we can’t rule out a few … Continue reading →

Be sure and scroll down and see Brian’s post which explains just how unusual this early, early severe weather outbreak is. Here is the latest: * In the last few hours, five Severe Thunderstorm Warnings and two Tornado Warnings have … Continue reading →

* 73 degrees at Huntsville this afternoon was the warmest on record for January 7, breaking the old record of 71 in 1989. * 65 degrees was the expected rise in temperature today at Oneonta from the frigid low of … Continue reading →

Huge and very deep low west of the Washington-Oregon Coast this afternoon. Pressure as low as in some hurricanes. Much of the West is under the gun. At mid-day, Walla Walla, Washington had a blinding dust storm underway with south … Continue reading →

UPDATED AT 12:30 PM CST Not quite as cold across Alabama this morning. As often happens, some stations did not have their low for the morning until after 6 am, so this update takes care of that. We also added … Continue reading →

We don’t normally cut and past an entire zone forecast to the blog but this is one of the most dramatic forecasts I have ever seen and I have been around through a lot of full moons. Read down through … Continue reading →