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Tornado Warning Eastern Mississippi
Two severe thunderstorms over eastern Mississippi at this hour. One has a tornado warning on it for northwestern Lauderdale and Newton Counties in Mississippi. The storm that contains a possible tornado is near Newton. The other severe storm is southwestern … Continue reading
Designing a Next Generation Warning System
The National Weather Service is working on the next generation of warning system. In December 2008, the National Weather Service and the University of Oklahoma hosted a meeting of partners in the warning partnership. It included members of academia (physical … Continue reading
1957 Walker County Tornado
Matt Graves is from Oneonta. He is a friend of the blog and loyal WeatherBrains listener. He told me about a tornado that hit Walker County in 1957. His grandmother handed stories down about the tornado. Those stories had a … Continue reading
The Deadly Tornado Year of 1953
Thirty eight people died when an F4 tornado slammed into the town of Vicksburg, Mississippi on a Saturday evening on this date in 1953. It would be the last killer tornado in the very terrible tornado season of 1953. 519 … Continue reading
Here Comes The Sun…
This visible satellite photo shows the clearing line is as far east at Fayette and Walker Counties in Alabama. But what this still image does not show is that the clearing has stopped its eastward progression. Wraparound moisture continues to … Continue reading
Just Before 5 a.m.
A beautiful dusting of snow here in Trussville early on this Saturday morning. It’s a scene repeated across parts of North Central Alabama as an upper level disturbance and wave of low pressure in the northern Gulf have conspired to … Continue reading
Twittering Away on an Early Saturday…
The Skywatcher instant messages, blog comments and Twitter posts really revolutionize how we follow snow events, don’t they? Thanks to everyone who contributed to the news about the event overnight. Some reports in the past hour from those of you … Continue reading
Snow Arriving in Birmingham Metro
Snow is coming down in Pleasant Grove in western Jefferson County. Flurries reported in the Maylene/Helena area. Click on the comments to get more great reports from our super audience reporters. National Weather Service radar shows light to moderate snow … Continue reading
North Alabama Reports
NORTH ALABAMA …Snowing steadily in Morgan County …Snow reported in downtown Cullman county …Steady snow at our Skycam in Cullman with 34F …Steady to moderate snow at Gold Ridge in eastern Cullman County FROM BATON ROUGE …half dollar sized flakes … Continue reading
Snow Reports…
…Snowing at our Cullman Skycam now…34F. …Reports starting to come in of snow in Jasper and Huntsville…some flakes in Tuscaloosa. …Ron Hughes reports nothing COker just yet …33F at Jackson MS with light snow …36F at Meridian with light rain … Continue reading
