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NW Alabama Situation
Several rotating supercells continue tonight over Northwest Alabama. We ave a low instability, high shear event, which can produce small quick spin up tornadoes. It is impossible to communicate the individual warnings…so i will treat them as a block. Tornado … Continue reading
New Warning
A Tornado Warning has been issued for Marion, Walker, Winston [AL] till 6:15 PM CDT …* AT 531 PM CDT…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LYNN…MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 … Continue reading
West Alabama Warnings Update
Serious internet problems this evening…so keep watcing ABC3340 for the latest…and I will keep this updated as best I can… Tornado warning for Fayette and Lamar Counties…potential tornado near Fayette and Belk…it will move north northeast passing near or just … Continue reading
Dangerous Storms West Alabama
A line of dangerous rotating supercells continues late this afternoon… …one over southern Marion County just NE of Guin will affect areas west of Brilliant up toward Twin, Pearces Mill, Brinn and eventually Bear Creek and Haleyville. …one just west … Continue reading
Pickens County
Pickens County has two areas of rptatoin indicating possible tornadoes… …one is 7 miles west northwest of Carrollton… …the other is just ahead of the first…passing between Ethelsville and Reform. Folks from Ethlesville to Reform and back to the southwest … Continue reading
New Warnings
Tornado warning continues for Walker County til 515 p.m. Storms with potential to produce tornado moving just west of the city of Jasper. Tornado warning NEW for Fayette Lamar and Pickens Counties. Dangerous storm between Millport and Kennedy moving toward … Continue reading
Three Tornado Warnings in West Alabama
A tornado warning is in effect for Fayette and Lamar Coutnties till 5:00 PM CDT …* AT 423 PM CDT…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLOOMING GROVE…MOVING NORTHEAST AT … Continue reading
Main Line of Storms Entering West Alabama
Here is the latest… No severe weather warnings are in effect for any part of Alabama or Mississippi at this hour. Storms are entering West Alabama from Colbert and Lauderdale Counties southward through Franklin to Marion County. The strongest storms … Continue reading
Can You Identify These Radar Echoes?
I snuck a peek at the KBMX radar while riding the Metro out from downtown D.C. tonight. I was amazed to see two worm shaped bands of high reflectivity across South Alabama. It certainly didn’t look like precipitation, more like … Continue reading
Greg Carbin’s Top Weather Events of 2009
At the National Weather Association Meeting last week in Norfolk, Greg Carbin, the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the Storm Prediction Center gave is top ten weather events so far in 2009. Here goes: 1. The Late January Ice Storm from … Continue reading
