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Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Blount, Etowah, St. Clair

Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Blount, Etowah, St. Clair

| May 31, 2015 @ 10:35 pm

Storms have intensified just north of Springville in St. Clair County, prompting the NWS to issue a severe thunderstorm warning. People in the warned area could see 60 mph winds and hail to three quarters of an inch. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… SOUTHEASTERN BLOUNT COUNTY […]

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Storms Into Birmingham in About an Hour

Storms Into Birmingham in About an Hour

| May 31, 2015 @ 8:17 pm

Storms over Central Alabama are now making a beeline for the Birmingham area. It is storming loudly in Tuscaloosa right now with lows of lightning, torrential rains and gusty winds. Winds gusted to 29 mph at the Tuscaloosa Airport as the storms approached. The storms extend southeastward through eastern Hale and western Bibb County to […]

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Showers and Storms over West Alabama

Showers and Storms over West Alabama

| May 31, 2015 @ 7:17 pm

A line of showers and thunderstorms has been progressing across Mississippi this afternoon and made it into Alabama around 5:30. It extends from Hamilton and Sulligent in Marion and Lamar Counties to Reform in Pickens County to near Eutaw in Greene County and on to south of Thomaston in Marengo County. Lots of lightning all […]

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Severe Thunderstorm Warning Montgomery/Pike/Bullock until 6:30PM

Severe Thunderstorm Warning Montgomery/Pike/Bullock until 6:30PM

| May 31, 2015 @ 6:07 pm

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… SOUTHWESTERN BULLOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA… SOUTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA… NORTH CENTRAL PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA… * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 606 PM CDT…A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PINE LEVEL…OR 9 MILES EAST OF […]

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Severe Thunderstorm Warning Barbour County until 5:30PM

Severe Thunderstorm Warning Barbour County until 5:30PM

| May 31, 2015 @ 5:01 pm

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… CENTRAL BARBOUR COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA… * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 500 PM CDT…A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CLAYTON…OR 12 MILES SOUTH OF MIDWAY…MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. HAZARD…60 MPH WIND GUSTS. SOURCE…RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT…EXPECT DAMAGE TO TREES. […]

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Severe Thunderstorm Warning Lee/Russell until 5:30PM

Severe Thunderstorm Warning Lee/Russell until 5:30PM

| May 31, 2015 @ 4:42 pm

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA… SOUTHEASTERN LEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA… * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 441 PM CDT…SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR BIBB CITY TO NEAR HURTSBORO…MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. HAZARD…60 […]

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Storms Approaching Alabama

Storms Approaching Alabama

| May 31, 2015 @ 4:36 pm

We have seen a lull in the action across Central Alabama through the early afternoon hours. However, we are beginning to see storms fire up to the south. Additionally, numerous showers and storms are ongoing across Mississippi and these storms continue to move east. This activity will be approaching the state line within the next […]

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Sunday Afternoon Update

Sunday Afternoon Update

| May 31, 2015 @ 2:29 pm

Today we have seen more active weather across the state compared to the last few days. During the late morning hours, showers and storms started developing throughout the state and these continue to develop and lift towards the northeast. At this time, no storms in Alabama are severe, but that could change through the afternoon […]

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The El Reno Tornado

The El Reno Tornado

| May 31, 2015 @ 11:13 am

The El Reno, Oklahoma Tornado occurred on this date two years ago. It was a game changer for storm chasers. The event had been well forecast. Hundreds of chasers had converged on the small community in Canadian County, Oklahoma. A thunderstorm developed in the explosively unstable environment, going from relatively harmless cumulus clouds to a […]

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Showers/storms More Numerous

Showers/storms More Numerous

| May 31, 2015 @ 6:37 am

Radars across Alabama were pretty quiet this morning with just a couple of small showers in the vicinity of Huntsville in the Tennessee Valley. The upper trough to our west continued to move closer, so I expect to see an uptick in the number and coverage of showers and storms today and Monday, perhaps into […]

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Will Mississippi Severe Storms Make It Into Alabama?

Will Mississippi Severe Storms Make It Into Alabama?

| May 30, 2015 @ 5:52 pm

Thunderstorms intensified this afternoon near I-55 in Mississippi and have been pushing eastward. They are being maintained by a pool of cold air over southern Mississippi that enhances instability. There have been a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings in Mississippi around Starkville and Carthage. The storms that are west of Columbus MS may hold together […]

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Scattered Storms Mainly NW of I-59 This Afternoon

Scattered Storms Mainly NW of I-59 This Afternoon

| May 30, 2015 @ 12:49 pm

Showers and thunderstorms are forming across much of Mississippi into northwestern Alabama early this afternoon in the warm sector of a weak surface low over southeastern Missouri. Here is a regional radar composite: There is no lightning in Alabama yet, but as temperatures continue to warm and instability continues to increase, convection will increase. Most […]

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Scattered Storms Continue

Scattered Storms Continue

| May 30, 2015 @ 6:49 am

Quick check of the radar this morning shows a couple of showers near Hamilton in Marion County. Additional scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop in the heat of the afternoon, but they should be fairly widely scattered like we saw yesterday. Highs should climb into the middle 80s for much of Central Alabama. The upper […]

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May 30, 1948:  The Vanport City Flood

May 30, 1948: The Vanport City Flood

| May 29, 2015 @ 10:31 pm

On May 30, 1948, the Columbia River reclaimed the important war industry city of Vanport, Oregon, destroying ten thousand homes and leaving nineteen thousand people homeless. A total of twenty five people perished in the flood, which gave no warning before inundating the town.

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