This is Severe Weather Awareness Week in Alabama. All week long, the National Weather Service will be highlighting the variety of threats posed by severe weather. Thunderstorms. Thunderstorms are a familiar occurrence in Alabama. In Birmingham, we average 57 thunderstorm … Continue reading →

Notes from all over… …Book Alert: “Galveston: A City on Stilts” by the Galveston Historical Foundation, features the amazing photographic collection of Zeva Edworthy. The collection chronicles the bold decision to raise the city and build a massive seawall after … Continue reading →

A large area of light showers over the northwestern third of Alabama tonight, generally north and west of the I-59 corridor. The leading edge of the precipitation extends from Livingston to Marion to Calera to Guntersville to Scottsboro. Some of … Continue reading →

Let’s take a look at Alabama’s weather on this Saturday… A cold front extends from a low near Chicago to near Paducah, Kentucky to Little Rock to Shreveport. Showers are occurring ahead of the front. Moderate showers were over western … Continue reading →

On the morning of Sunday, February 21, 1971, a surface low was over Central Texas near Waco. The low had caused severe weather overnight in the Hill Country. A warm front extended east from the low across northern Louisiana, Central … Continue reading →

Our storms are congealing into a solid line tonight over Central Alabama. Maybe we left them out too long. It tends to happen when you don’t put them back in the refrigerator. It extends from Jemsion in Chilton County to … Continue reading →

Not completely out of the woods yet…but the tornado threat is decreasing. A TORNADO WARNING is in effect until 745 p.m. for Randolph County in East Alabama…still showing possible tornado…high damaging wind threat from cell southeast of Tennant. This cell … Continue reading →

Building an update… Line of intense storms lies now mainly west to east across the middle of Alabama tonight… They extend at 7 p.m. from Pickens, Tuscaloosa, through northern Bibb into southern Shelby, northern Chilton, Talladega, Clay and Randolph Counties. … Continue reading →

Hard to keep up with everything going on…so I am going to anchor this posting one place, and update it continuously…I will keep active warnings at top…with updates… At 6:50 p.m. a line of storms extends across Central Alabama tonight … Continue reading →

BMX issues Severe Thunderstorm Warning for northern Bibb, Greene, south central Jefferson, southeast Pickens, extreme western Shelby, southern Tuscaloosa [AL] till 6:30 PM CST Includes the city of Tuscaloosa. Intense storms from near Coker and the Tuscaloosa Airport. Ronald Hughes … Continue reading →