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Severe Tstm Watch Extended into Northwest Alabama
An internet outage knocked out the blog about 4 seconds after the severe thunderstorm watch came out. Sorry for the inconvenience… The SPC has issued a new severe thunderstorm watch for Northwest Alabama back into northern Mississippi and western Tennessee. … Continue reading
April in Central Alabama: What to Expect
Sorry I am a little late with this…but here is my April Climate Summary for Central Alabama. April is one of the most changeable months weatherwise in Central Alabama. It often features some of the finest weather of the year … Continue reading
Cherry Blossoms and Big Brains
Kevin Ambrose, Guest WeatherBrain on show number 215 posted these wonderful photos of the cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C., which are peaking right now. We will have more Brain per capita this week than we probably ever have had with … Continue reading
April 3, 1974: A Horrible, Horrible Night
(This warning is not current. It is from 1974.) News reports from the afternoon of April 3, 1974 were disturbing. Devastating tornadoes in Louisville, Cincinnati and Brandenburg, Kentucky. The town of Xenia, Ohio was hard hit, with lots of fatalities. … Continue reading
Disappearing Act
Our line of thunderstorms has done a major disappearing act in less than two hours this morning. It ran out of steam, as expected, as it moved into more stable air over Central Alabama. Now the flare up over Mississippi … Continue reading
Storms Weakening
The line of storms over West Central Alabama has really gone downhill in the last 30 minutes. It extends from Decatur to west of Cullman to west of Adamsville and then curves back through Sumter County near Livingston and York. … Continue reading
7 a.m. Update
A line of thunderstorms continues moving eastward across Alabama this morning. At 7 a.m., the line extends from just east of Double Springs in Winston County to just east of Carbon Hill in Walker County to Fayette County just east … Continue reading
Looking West…
A late night look to the west… …reveals showers and storms… A severe thunderstorm warning was in effect until just a moment ago for for some parishes in Northeast Louisiana. Lightning filled storms were approaching the Memphis area. The storms … Continue reading
Remembering April 3, 1974…
Weather maps on the morning of Wednesday, April 3, 1974 gave clear indications that a major outbreak of severe weather was likely across a wide part of the United States. About 4 a.m., the forecaster at the Severe Local Storms … Continue reading
F1 Tornadoes Can Kill Too…
Hoyt Watts awakened around 5:35 a.m. on the morning of March 29, 1991 in his home on Highway 21 in Munford in Talladega County. It was storming outside. Storming bad. The wind was roaring loudly and lightning was flashing as … Continue reading
