Author Archives: J.B. Elliott
More Tornado Action in Mississippi
This is the fifth Tornado Warning issued by NWS, Jackson in the last 40 minutes. BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 515 PM CST FRI DEC 31 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON … Continue reading
Tornado Touchdown in Mississippi
Report from NWS, Jackson PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 451 PM CST FRI DEC 31 2010 .TIME… …EVENT… …CITY LOCATION… …LAT.LON .DATE… ….MAG…. ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. …SOURCE. ..REMARKS.. 0449 PM TORNADO 1 N TERRY 32.12N 90.30W 12/31/2010 … Continue reading
Quick Radar Check–5:50 pm
Based on lightning detection equipment, the most powerful thunderstorms are clustered over West Central Mississippi, west and Southwest of Jackson. Moving rapidly NNE or NE. These storms are dumping an estimated 1.50 inches of rain per hour. 4 PM dew … Continue reading
Mississippi Trouble
The NWS in Jackson has issued five Tornado Warnings since 3:30 this afternoon. Here the the latest one: BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 415 PM CST FRI DEC 31 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER … Continue reading
Flash Flood Watch
These are the Alabama Counties included in a Flash Flood Watch from midnight tonight until noon Saturday. Issued by the NWS Birmingham Bibb Blount Fayette Greene Hale Jefferson Lamar Marengo Marion Perry Pickens Shelby Sumter Tuscaloosa Walker Winston The last … Continue reading
Variety of Bad Weather
Alabama is under the gun for some possible severe weather tonight so we will be on guard throughout the night. The Storm Prediction Center has the west half of the state under a slight risk of Severe weather overnight. A … Continue reading
B-r-r! Some Cold Weather Notes
These brief items collected over the last few days: …..51% of the Lower 48 states with a blanket of snow today! …..62 below zero wind chill at Deadhorse, Alaska this morning …..Interstates 17 and 40 closed in North Arizona during … Continue reading
Football Weather
Way too early to zoom in on the weather for the Auburn/Oregon national championship game in Glendale, Ariz., about two weeks from now. We will keep checking on that as the big event gets closer. Meanwhile, this Saturday, New Years … Continue reading
Another Freeze to the Coast
Overworked thermometers were registering very low temperatures around Alabama and other areas this morning. There was a distinct freeze (really a hard freeze) all the way to the Alabama-Northwest Florida Coast. But let these numbers do the talking: 10 Muscadine … Continue reading
How Would You Like to NOT be here?
Just for the fun of it (well, maybe fun is the wrong word) so lets say for the interest of it.) This is the official observation from atop Mt. Washington, New Hampshire at 7 am (our time) There is a … Continue reading
