A tornado warning has been issued for Fayette County. Dangerous storm along the bow echo…just easy of Fayette…moving to the east toward Berry and Bankston…take cover now.

A powerful thunderstorm complex is moving across western Alabama. It is a derecho, a long lived thunderstorm complex that produces a wide swath of wind damage along a long path. This one originated this morning in eastern Oklahoma, gaining strength … Continue reading →

On this date in 1899: An F5 tornado struck New Richmond, Wisconsin. A total of 117 people were killed and 200 were injured. A circus was playing in the town, which meant an additional one thousand people were there for … Continue reading →

On June 5, 2001, ship, buoy and recon reports indicated that a tropical storm had formed in the Gulf about 80 miles south of Galveston. It had top winds of 60 mph. Twelve hours later, it made landfall near the … Continue reading →

Austrian Scientist Christian Andreas Doppler first described what we know as the Doppler Effect in 1842, long before anyone had even dreamed of weather radar. Conventional radars became reality during World War II, developed as a result of military necessity … Continue reading →

Red flag alerts were in effect in southwest Colorado’s San Juan Mountains for extreme fire danger conditions as 30 mph winds, low humidities and tinder dry woodlands were waiting to explode. It was the worst drought in Colorado’s recorded weather … Continue reading →

1994 and 1995 had not been the best two tornado seasons for the research team from the National Severe Storms Laboratory. In early June 1995, the field experiment Project VORTEX was coming to an end after two seasons of chasing … Continue reading →

The Alabama Partners for Clean Air have issued an air quality alert for Sunday, June 7, 2009 for Jefferson and Shleby Counties. The pollutant that is responsible for the alert is ozone. Actions you can take on Alert Days: • … Continue reading →

On the morning of Thursday, June 7, 1984, weather maps showed a major trough of low pressure across the western United States, anchored by an upper low over the northern Rockies. A long cold front snaked from Canada down through … Continue reading →

A beautiful Saturday is in progress over Central Alabama. Skies are mostly sunny with just a few puffy cumulus clouds, except in the area between I-20, I-65 and I-85, where a surge of moisture has pushed into eastern Alabama thanks … Continue reading →