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Big Tornadoes to Our Northwest Tonight. Our Turn Tomorrow?
It has been a frightening afternoon and night in areas to the northwest of Alabama. Arkansas is the hardest hit state. A long track tornado affected areas northwest to north to northeast of Little Rock starting just after 7 p.m. … Continue reading
An Impressive Radar SIgnature
A mesolow over eastern North Carolina has looked very impressive and has produced numerous reports of wind damage and tornadoes this afternoon and evening. This radar image is from 7:13 p.m. CDT as the high precipitation supercell was near Elizabeth … Continue reading
My Tribute to JB
My first J.B. Elliott experience was probably in 1971. The National Weather Service in Birmingham had a recorded telephone line for the forecast. It was updated a few times a day by the meteorological technicians and forecasters that worked there … Continue reading
Sunday Update
The tale of two skies continues across the state of Alabama on this Easter Sunday. Skies are cloudy south of I-85 and US-80 over the southeastern part of the state when some moisture is riding up and over the high … Continue reading
An Evening Update
It has been a rainy, cloudy and cool day across Central Alabama, with a chilly easterly breeze thrown in for good measure. Highs in the I-20 corridor were generally in the upper 50s. The high in Tuscaloosa was 60F. When … Continue reading
Late Night Update
Two lines of showers and storms continue early this morning. The first extends over western Tennessee and northern Mississippi into northern Lousiana. The second extends across southeastern Missouri, across Central Arkansas and into northern Louisiana. All of this activity will … Continue reading
Watching to the West
It is an active night of severe weather in areas to the west of Alabama as a dynamic storm system continues to come together. As we have been advertising, it is a two prong system. The first upper disturbance is … Continue reading
Flash Flood Watch Issued
The NWS in Birmingham has issued a flash flood watch for much of Central Alabama, beginning Monday morning and continuing through early Tuesday afternoon. Counties in the flash flood watch include: Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, … Continue reading
A Nice Sunday, Severe Weather in the Offing Though
A pleasant spring Sunday is in progress with partly cloudy to occasionally mostly cloudy skies at time. High clouds are starting to stream across the area, and thickening and lowering clouds are to the west. Back over Mississippi, we see … Continue reading
Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast from Klotzbach/Gray
Dr. Bill Gray just finished speaking at the Tropical Meteorology Conference at South Padre Island, discussing the challenges of seasonal hurricane forecasting and the precursors that they use. He turned it over to Dr. Phil Klotzbach to announce their 2014 … Continue reading
