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Monster HP Supercell in Oklahoma
We are tracking a monster HP supercell thunderstorm in northern Oklahoma this afternoon. It is approaching Perry, OK at this hour. It has produced as many as eight tornadoes. One of them hit a hog farm in Lacey in Kingfisher … Continue reading
News 9 in OKC Streaming Coverage
News 9 in Oklahoma City is tracking a slow moving, developing tornado live approaching the town of Bison, OK. https://www.news9.com/
Alabama Update 11:45 a.m.
Radar shows no rain over Alabama at 11:45 a.m. Regional radars show developing showers over eastern Tennessee and extreme Northeast Georgia. A shower was approaching Chattanooga from the north. This activity is in the vicinity of a frontal boundary that … Continue reading
The Union City Tornado
What would you say is the most important breakthrough in the tornado warning process? You could go back to the nineteenth century and say the telegraph, which made advance warnings possible. It could be Fawbush and Miller’s excellent, albeit lucky, … Continue reading
Storms Widely Scattered Now…
Widely scattered storms continue ahead of a rather sharp front moving southeastward through Central Alabama tonight. The dewpoint at Columbus MS is 52F…while it is 65F at Tuscaloosa. No warnings this hour. But a coupleof strong storms…one in northern Hale … Continue reading
Severe Thunderstorm Warning Continues for Randolph County…
Two strong storms…one entering western Randoph County west of Wedowee…and one north of Roanoke…about to move into Georgia… Severe thunderstrom warning continues for Randolph County until 845 p.m. Elsewhere…no warnings…but lots of lighting, heavy rain and wind in the following … Continue reading
Counties Cleared from Watch…
The NWS has canceled the Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Blount, Cherokee, Etowah, Fayette, Lamar and Walker Counties. The Severe Thunderstorm Watch fcontinues for Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Pickens, Randolph, Shelby, St. Clair, Talladega, Tallapoosa … Continue reading
Two Warnings…
Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Jefferson, St. Clair [AL] till 8:15 PM CDT… Storms lined up across northern Jefferson County east southeastward into St. Clair County… Lots of of very hot lightning! Damaging winds possible…along with hail. New Severe Thunderstorm Warning … Continue reading
Jefferson Warning…and Radar Tour…7:45 p.m.
Thunderstorms are lined up tonight from eastern Walker…across northern Jefferson…southern Blount and St. Clair Counties. No warnings here…but an intensifying storm between Pinson and Clay is of concern… Hail and damaging winds are the threats…along with deadly lightning and torrential … Continue reading
Radar Update…7:20 p.m.
Looking upstream from the Birmingham Metro area…there are no storms threatening the City of Birmingham now… Storms are lineup in a line from SW Blount County through extreme northern Jefferson County then over into Talladega and St. Clair Counties. The … Continue reading
