BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 212 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… SOUTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA… EAST CENTRAL TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA… * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT [...]

BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 747 AM CDT FRI MAY 21 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… WALKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA… THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF…SUMITON…JASPER…DORA…CORDOVA… CARBON HILL… * UNTIL 830 AM CDT * AT 744 AM [...]

This morning as I was looking at the infrared satellite loop at 2:30 AM (yep, that’s normal for a morning weather guy!), I noticed a dark patch of water down in the Gulf that I hadn’t seen before. It’s been there all along, but sometimes we overlook small details of images like these and forget [...]

Twelve days after a perfect launch, NASA and NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) reached its proper orbit. This action triggers the renaming of the satellite to GOES-15. The latest weather satellite will complete its checkout in mid August 2010 and be stored in-orbit, ready for activation should one of the operational GOES satellites degrade [...]