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Afternoon Update
Showers and thunderstorms are starting to form this afternoon along a northward moving warm front. It separates temperatures and dewpoint in the 50s from 70+ degree temps and 65+ degree dewpoints that are lifting on a strong southerly flow ahead … Continue reading
Now is the Time to Prepare for Today’s Severe Weather
You can always find all of our severe weather safety advice in the top menu bar on the AlabamaWX.com blog. Just click on Severe Weather Safety Rules. Here is the advice that pertains to severe thunderstorms and tornadoes since we … Continue reading
Moderate Risk Expanded
The Storm Prediction center has issued its 1030 a.m. update of the Day One Severe Weather Outlook. It has expanded the moderate risk categorical outlook northward into Illinois and Indiana. It now extends nearly as far north as St. Louis … Continue reading
What a Difference A Few Miles Makes
Quite a difference in the weather across the Birmingham area, not to mention across Alabama this afternoon. Just driving from Trussville to Vestavia, the temperature rose from 57F to 61F on the car thermometer. At both locations, it is still … Continue reading
Moderate Risk Tomorrow For Parts of Alabama?
The SPC has had a slight risk outlook out for tomorrow since yesterday, so they have pretty good confidence that severe weather will be a problem on Sunday. On their late morning update to the Day 2 outlook, they have … Continue reading
The Tornado Watch Watusi
It’s fun to watch the process as the NWS local offices expire, cancel and issue new counties for tornado watches. The SPC has final say on the initial watch after a coordination call with the affected local offices. Then it … Continue reading
Lotsa Lightning
This Radarscope graphic with Allison House data shows all the lightning from the storms over Central Alabama. John Talbot reports several fire calls for lightning strikes to residences in Shelby County. One recent one in Chelsea on Camino Real. Reports … Continue reading
Big Storm Southern Jefferson/Shelby/Bibb
The Tuscaloosa County storm has continue to intensify as it has moved northeast up I-59/20. It now covers much of southwestern Jefferson and northwestern Shelby Counties back into Bibb County. It is raining hard and thundering loudly in places like … Continue reading
A Few Counties Cleared from Watch
The NWS has cleared Marion, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan and Jackson Counties from Tornado Watch number 3. The rest of North and Central Alabama continues in the watch until noon. There is a small threat of a tornado with thunderstorms … Continue reading
East Alabama Storms Have Picked Up
Storms that formed over Shelby County have gotten quite active this morning along I-20 from east of Lincoln through Anniston/Oxford to Heflin. Pea sized hail was reported a short time ago in Oxford. The storms are not severe, and are … Continue reading
