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Code Orange Ozone Alert
A Code Orange Air Quality Alert has been issued for Jefferson and Shelby Counties for today. Ground level ozone will be at levels today that can be unhealthy for sensitive individuals, including people with asthma and children. Some actions you … Continue reading
Forecast for D-Day
As German soldiers peered out from their bunkers along the French coast on the morning of June 5, 1944, they knew there was no way that the long awaited invasion by the Allies was coming that day. High winds, heavy … Continue reading
June 5, 1976: The Teton Dam Collapse
The 305 foot tall Teton Dam designed to provide tremendous benefit to the farmers and residents of the Snake River area of Idaho. Built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, it was supposed to eliminate the threat of spring floaods … Continue reading
Severe Thunderstorm Watch to our West Tonight
It’s the time of the year for northwesterly flow over Alabama, and that is the case this evening. These northwesterly flow events are notorious for spitting thunderstorm complexes at us as disturbances round the top of the ridge to our … Continue reading
I-59 Storms
Storms are lined up near I-59 this evening in the Tuscaloosa area and northeast of Birmingham. They are heaviest from Peterson to LakeView and back to West Blocton and Vance, and on the eastern side of the Birmingham Metro and … Continue reading
Storms Into Birmingham in About an Hour
Storms over Central Alabama are now making a beeline for the Birmingham area. It is storming loudly in Tuscaloosa right now with lows of lightning, torrential rains and gusty winds. Winds gusted to 29 mph at the Tuscaloosa Airport as … Continue reading
Showers and Storms over West Alabama
A line of showers and thunderstorms has been progressing across Mississippi this afternoon and made it into Alabama around 5:30. It extends from Hamilton and Sulligent in Marion and Lamar Counties to Reform in Pickens County to near Eutaw in … Continue reading
The El Reno Tornado
The El Reno, Oklahoma Tornado occurred on this date two years ago. It was a game changer for storm chasers. The event had been well forecast. Hundreds of chasers had converged on the small community in Canadian County, Oklahoma. A … Continue reading
Will Mississippi Severe Storms Make It Into Alabama?
Thunderstorms intensified this afternoon near I-55 in Mississippi and have been pushing eastward. They are being maintained by a pool of cold air over southern Mississippi that enhances instability. There have been a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings in Mississippi … Continue reading
Scattered Storms Mainly NW of I-59 This Afternoon
Showers and thunderstorms are forming across much of Mississippi into northwestern Alabama early this afternoon in the warm sector of a weak surface low over southeastern Missouri. Here is a regional radar composite: There is no lightning in Alabama yet, … Continue reading
