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Turning Stormier
Alabama continues in an active upper level wind pattern this morning. With relatively moist and unstable air in place, showers and storms are the result. An area of showers and storms is over southern Walker and northern Tuscaloosa Counties, moving … Continue reading
Storms Lined Up Along I-20
Storms continue sinking southward over East Alabama tonight. They are lined up generally along I-20 from Leeds to Lincoln to Anniston to just north of Heflin. Anniston reporting a 35 mph wind gust in the past 15 minutes. The storms … Continue reading
Storms 25 Miles North of Birmingham
Our line of storms is pushing southward toward Birmingham tonight. I thought it was going to slide east of the metro, but it now appears that some of the activity could make it into parts of the Birmingham metro. Storms … Continue reading
May 2, 1982: The Weather Channel is Born!
It was at the top of my list of inventions of the late twentieth century. It ranked ahead of the personal computer, the VCR and the microwave. It ranked just behind the internet. For a weather weenie, continuous, non-stop meteorological … Continue reading
Storms Sinking South
The storms over the Tennessee Valley tonight are sinking southward tonight. They extend generally along and north of AL-157 from Moulton to Eva to northwest of Guntersville. The storms over Northwest Alabama have weakened and laid down an outflow boundary … Continue reading
Storms Continue
An amazing boundary remains positioned across North Alabama tonight in a west/northwest to east/southeast orientation. It is being fed by strong southerly inflow. The main activity has now shifted back to Northwest Alabama and western Tennessee. The storms over eastern … Continue reading
Overall Update – 8 p.m.
Thunderstorms continue in two batches over North Alabama tonight. Active severe storms are over Northeast Alabama’s northern Calhoun County north of Jacksonville over through the Piedmont area. This most dangerous part of this storm will pass between Piedmont and Jacksonville. … Continue reading
Mean Storms
Big storms over Northeast Alabama over into Northwest Georgia tonight. The main activity is along an arc from southern Etowah into southern Cherokee County. The heaviest cells are near Attalla and between Gadsden and Glencoe then to east of Hokes … Continue reading
This Weekend at McWane
From: Challenger Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 4:53 PM To: Everyone Subject: Embrace Space Day (Weekend) Hi everyone, This is Ben, your friendly neighborhood Manager of Space and Technology at McWane Science Center. I just wanted to let everyone in … Continue reading
Why No Warning?
Shortly after 6 p.m. on April 27, 1899, a tornado touched down on the northeast side of the town of Kirsksville in northern Missouri. The tornado funnel reportedly appeared to be very narrow, but it produced a 1/4 mile wide … Continue reading
