The latest edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme Video is available in the player below. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme Video on iTunes by clicking here. Radar this morning showed a large area of showers and rain moving through Middle Tennessee with some of that rain area moving across the Tennessee River […]
Showers and thunderstorms are developing across Central Alabama this morning. Heavy showers and some storms developed in the last 45 minutes near Columbus MS and moved quickly into northern Pickens, Lamar, Fayette and southeastern Marion and Winston Counties in West Alabama. A decent storm was located between Brilliant, Haleyville and Natural Bridge. These storms are […]
(Bill will be along shortly fora more complete update and Brian’s Video Discussion a little later. In addition to the information in this Huntsville Statement, a group of showers has developed over West Alabama in Lamar, SE Marion and Extreme NW Fayette County. Also some showers over Blount and Extreme North Jefferson County. The Storm […]
Our weakening showers and storms is now into Lamar, Marion Franklin, Colbert and Lauderdale Counties of West Alabama. It is but a shadow of its former self from the evening when it was over Arkansas, western Tennessee and northwestern Mississippi. But we expected that to be the case. The Weather Service does have significant weather […]
The line of storms to the west has weakened dramatically over the past couple of hours. It now extends from Corinth to east of Tupelo to west of Starkville to Louisville. Very little lightning left in the line and most of that is confined to the northern portions of the line just described. No reports […]
You can clearly see the surface low tonight over southern Arkansas. The low looks like it is moving a little faster tonight and it will be in southern Illinois by morning. You can also see a fairly decent line of thunderstorms that has crossed the Mississippi River in Northwest Mississippi. Nothing severe, although couldn’t rule […]
On the morning of March 28, 2000, it seemed apparent that a severe weather outbreak would affect Oklahoma and Texas. The Storm Prediction Center posted a moderate risk outlook for northern Texas and southern Oklahoma. A cold front over Kansas was expected to drop into the Red River Valley between Texas and Oklahoma that afternoon. […]
It doesn’t get much better than this in Central Alabama. Lots of blue skies and mild temperatures. Readings are in the 60s right now heading for highs around or just a little above 70F across Central Alabama. Regional radars still mainly free of precipitation to the west. This will be changing. Surface low is over […]
Scroll down for Bill Murray’s post about the tornado tragedy at the Goshen United Methodist Church. And, see a documentary we put together on the occasional of the tenth anniversary of the event. Bill Castle, as always, did a remarkable job in putting this together….
The latest edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme Video is available in the player below. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme Video on iTunes by clicking here. We have another great spring day in store for us in Central Alabama as temperatures warm up nicely approaching the 70-degree mark for highs. The day […]
The actual warning from the NWS Birmingham that provided a 12 minute lead time on the tornado. March 27, 1994 was Palm Sunday. I was a meteorologist at Channel 42 in Birmingham. The Chief Meteorologist was away that day and I was scheduled to work. I had been eying the weather for that Sunday for […]
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. BRING ON THE WEEKEND: The sky did clear this afternoon across most of Alabama, and we will promise a nice day tomorrow to kick off […]
Thanks to Tommy Self for these images, who writes: “James, Here are some funnels I got during my chase yesterday. The Iuka storm was not warned and when the Hartselle funnel passed the winds where so atrong it ripped my anemometer off my vehicle. Wild day.” Some shots in the set are also from Lana […]
This article from foxnews.com should answer questions about the object streaking through the Alabama sky March 19: A bright fireball that lit up the sky above parts of Alabama last week was caught by NASA cameras as it streaked over the southeastern United States. The fireball was caused by the death plunge of a meteor […]
Our long time friend, mentor, and charter Weather Factory member, J.B. Elliott, passed away on May 11, 2015. Click HERE to read James' tribute.
