With a significant severe weather outbreak expected tomorrow night, it’s time to check your severe weather safety plan. It is critical that you evaluate the best places for safety in your home or place of business and be ready to … Continue reading →

Concern is increasing about the threat of tornadoes and damaging winds tomorrow night over Alabama. Conferences with the National Weather Service this afternoon indicate that meteorologists there are growing increasingly worried that instability levels and wind shear will be certainly … Continue reading →

The 12z model data is in and it does not change my thinking very much… The highlights are that a dynamic storm system will bring a threat of severe weather to Alabama between 8 p.m. Monday night and 8 a.m. … Continue reading →

Some early thoughts on the forecast for next week… …system may be slower…coming in mainly after midnight…which is better for us… …instabilities do not look overly impressive. Lifted indices get to -1 or so. Dew points only make the upper … Continue reading →

Blog Reader Carla Hill shared the following information recently… Bill, This time last year, you wrote one of your weather history segments on the blog about a large snowfall along the Gulf Coast affecting the Lake Charles, LA area on … Continue reading →

March roared in like a lion across the Deep South as a powerful storm system triggered an outbreak of tornadoes from Missouri and Illinois into Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and northern Florida. A total of twenty people died in the storms. … Continue reading →

A area of showers is moving southeastward across North and Central Alabama this evening ahead of a cold front. The cold front was moving into western Tennessee and northwestern Mississippi at this hour. Showers has reached as far south as … Continue reading →

A severe thunderstorm watch continues for Central Alabama until 6 a.m. A line of strong storms has entered Northwest Alabama is approaching the other western counties of the state. At 1 a.m….the line extended from just west of Muscle Shoals … Continue reading →

Here is the complete text…more in a few minutes… The following counties in Central Alabama are included…Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lamar, Lowndes, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Shelby, Sumter, Tuscaloosa and Walker. The watch is in effect until … Continue reading →

Here is the latest thinking from the Storm Prediction Center… It basically says that the line of strong storms is moving rapidly eastward tonight and will be into Alabama between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Large hail and the potential … Continue reading →