Author Archives: Ryan Stinnet
Your Weekly U.S. Drought Monitor Update
Areas to west continue to suffer from the drought as the very dry weather persist. Exceptional drought conditions continue across the Southern Plains and areas along the West Coast. There is some good news for locations in the southern Plains, … Continue reading
Gorgeous Saturday Afternoon
Hard to find any complaint with the weather today. All locations are in the 70s, with lots of sunshine and no chance of rain. Looking up, it is blue sky in every direction. Dew points are low as well, keeping … Continue reading
Your Weekly U.S. Drought Monitor Update
Areas to west continue to suffer from the drought as the very dry weather persist. There have been some areas that have seen conditions improve especially areas of the Central and Northern Rockies. However, we have seen exceptional drought conditions … Continue reading
Strong Storms Affecting West Alabama
A few strong storms are beginning to affect western portions of the state. The first area of storms we are watching is impacting Winston County with hail, gusty winds, and very heavy rainfall. The next area of storms, is are … Continue reading
Storms Approaching Alabama
Strong and a few locally severe storms are approaching the state line. The storms approaching Lamar, Pickens, and Sumter Counties are just below severe limits and are producing some hail, gusty winds, very heavy rainfall, and frequent lightning. The storms … Continue reading
Severe Weather Watch Coming Soon
The Storm Prediction Center and the local NWS office are currently monitoring trends and are coordinating a new watch for North-Central Alabama to be issued soon. AREAS AFFECTED…NERN MS / NRN AND CNTRL AL / SRN MIDDLE TN / EXTREME … Continue reading
Severe Storms Developing to Our West
This afternoon, we are seeing strong and severe storms across Central Mississippi. Several of these storms are supercells with rotation aloft right now. Currently there are no tornado warned storms. These storms are producing large hail and damaging winds. Storms … Continue reading
Kimberly Tornado Rated EF-1
…NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 04/28/2014 TORNADO EVENT… .KIMBERLY TORNADO (JEFFERSON COUNTY)… RATING: EF-1 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 100 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 3.3 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 800 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: 04/28/2014 START TIME: 1000 PM CDT … Continue reading
Tornado Watch Issued to Our West
Things are beginning to get a bit more interesting to our west as the severe weather threat is increasing. Check Bill Murray’s blog post below on why we will see another busy afternoon for the region. Storms are beginning to … Continue reading
Mid-Morning Update
Another day of dangerous severe weather is expected over Alabama and Mississippi. The SPC has much of both states outlined in their enhanced moderate risk for severe weather. This moderate risk includes Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Demopolis, Clanton, Cullman, Jasper, Livingston, Meridian, … Continue reading
