New severe thunderstorm warning for Pickens County until 2:45 p.m. Additional severe thunderstorm warning for Lamar and Fayette Counties until 2:30 p.m.

A cluster of intensifying storms extends from near Vernon in Lamar County back through Columbus to south of Starkville and to near Louisville. In addition to the warned counties, strong storms will affect southern Lamar and Pickens Counties shortly. Be … Continue reading →

Go ahead and make sure you are ready for active weather this afternoon and evening as severe thunderstorms form ahead of a cold front in a warm, moist and unstable airmass. Wind shear values are low, so nothing is expected … Continue reading →

Flooding continues in Randolph County at this hour… Corinth [Randolph Co, AL] emergency mngr reports FLASH FLOOD at 11:35 AM CDT — water 6 inches deep flowing across county road 49 in the Corinth community. Roanoke [Randolph Co, AL] emergency … Continue reading →

Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Bibb, Chilton, Perry [AL] till 12:45 PM CDT Strong storm 6 miles southeast of Centreville or just north of Oakmulgee. Moving ENE toward Lawley and Randolph.

Flash flood warning has been issued for Randolph County. Persistent storms are dumping heavy rains over Randolph County. Here are storm totals since last night… Here is a satellite precipitation estimate… SPENES ZCZC NFDSPENES ALL SPENES GAZ000-ALZ000- . SATELLITE PRECIPITATION … Continue reading →

Counties included are: Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Etowah, Fayette, Jefferson, Lamar, Lee, Marion, Pickens, Randolph, Shelby, St. Clair, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Winston. The watch goes until 7 a.m. tomorrow morning. Rainfall amounts from … Continue reading →

Three main areas to talk about… 1. Storms entering Birmingham metro area… Big cluster of storms over eastern Fayette, southern Walker and Tuscaloosa Counties was building into Jefferson County and will affect much of the county over the next two … Continue reading →

Much as we expected, storms are getting an early start across Alabama this morning. An active zone of convection was firing quickly over Hales, Tuscaloosa and into Walker County. The heaviest cells were from Oakman to Berry then south along … Continue reading →

The GFS is up to its usual May mischief of predicting some tropical or subtropical storm activity in the Gulf of Mexico over the next couple of weeks. Here are the 2009 Atlantic names…just in case… Ana Bill Claudette Danny … Continue reading →