Author Archives: J.B. Elliott
Early Tonight in Alabama
Tornado Warning continues for Russell County, in SE Alabama until 7:45. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) says the better chance of tornadoes for the next few hours will be over Extreme SE Alabama and SW Georgia. At 7:40 PM, the … Continue reading
Early Afternoon Update–12:10 p.m.
The Tornado Watch for a large part of Central and South Alabama continues until 6:00 p.m. This is generally from the Eutaw-Centreville-Clanton-Rockford and Lafayette line southward. At noon, there was no watch in effect for the immediate Birmingham area. Down … Continue reading
Late Morning in Alabama–11:20 Report
A Tornado Watch continues until 6:00 p.m. for a large part of Central and South Alabama. It does not include the immediate Birmingham area nor the Tuscaloosa-Anniston area. However, it does include Greene, Hale, Bibb, Chilton, Coosa, Tallapoosa and Chambers … Continue reading
New Severe Weather Outlook
The new Severe Weather Outlook for today (Saturday) changed very little from the earlier outlook. A Moderate Risk is in effect today for: Southeast Mississippi South half of Alabama Northwest Florida Part of Southwest Georgia Here in Alabama, the moderate … Continue reading
Weather By the Numbers
* 0.04 is all the rain that we got at Birmingham Airport yesterday. We were overlooked again * 7.07 is our 2007 total so far * 10.51 inches is our shortage for the year so far. That is not good … Continue reading
Precious Commodity
Rain, that is. It is very precious in Alabama at this time. Here is a list of amounts. Most of it fell in today’s storms: 0.58 at Muscle Shoals 0.45 at Tuscaloosa Airport 0.07 at Birmingham Airport (we were short-changed … Continue reading
Now What?
It is all over but the shouting. Just before 7:00 tonight a few strong storms persisted in extreme East Alabama. So now what? Here is a hint: Look how these dew points drop off rapidly as you go west. 65 … Continue reading
6 o’clock Report
Strongest storms still remaining in Alabama at 6 pm: Chambers County Macon County Both in East Alabama
A Report From Elmore County
J.B. Good evening! I used to intern with James back at WBRC and finished my meteorology degree at Miss State, so I definitely appreciate all you guys are doing keeping the state safe. Thought I’d report in – the storm … Continue reading
5 o’clock Update in Alabama
Bagley is about as far into NW Jefferson County without crossing into Walker Countyas you can get. It is NE of Summiton. Wind damage occurred there this afternoon. A home was damaged, a mobile home overturned and trees and power … Continue reading
