The NWS Huntsville has issued a tornado warning for eastern Lawrence and Morgan Counties, including the Decatur area. Rotation, indicating possible tornado west southwest of Hartselle. Movement is east northeast at 25 mph.
Storms over Winston County east of Haleyville are approaching Double Springs. Good chance of hail and strong wind gusts with this cell. Other one south of Moulton will move toward toward Priceville.
The storm now moving across western sections of the Birmingham metro and heading toward downtown could contain hail to the size of marbles. That’s 0.5 inches in diameter. The severe criteria now is 1 inch (the size of quarters.) It will affect Hueytown, Fairfield, Midfield, downtown Birmingham down into Homewood between now and 5:30 p.m. […]
Low topped supercells continue across the northwestern quarter of Alabama this afternoon. It’s hard to call them thunderstorms, since they aren’t producing very much in the way of lightning. A little was showing up in Franklin County. Probably the most suspicious looking storm in Alabama is crossing SR-24 east of Russellville. It definitely shows some […]
As 3:20 this afternoon, the National Weather Service expanded the Severe Thunderstorm Watch to cover a larger area of North/Central and West Alabama. This means now that all of the greater Birmingham area is included. The additional six counties are: Bibb Blount Jefferson Shelby Pickens Tuscaloosa This, of course, includes the cities of Alabaster, Aliceville, […]
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch continues until 7:00 this evening for about the west third of Tennessee, extreme North and NE Mississippi and NW Alabama. This Watch does not include the immediate Birmingham area, but it does include counties as nearby as Walker, Fayette and Cullman. So far, the closest actual warnings to Alabama have been […]
The Birmingham NWS office has decided to add the Birmingham metro area (Jefferson and Shelby Counties) to the existing severe thunderstorm watch for North Alabama, valid until 7:00 p.m… Scroll down for the afternoon discussion and Weather Xtreme video:
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. RIGHT NOW: Thunderstorms continue to increase over Northeast Mississippi, and these will enter Northwest Alabama shortly. Hardly any surface based instability, but very cold air […]
The watch will be in effect until 7:00 p.m… URGENT – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 35 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 150 PM CDT THU MAR 25 2010 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF PARTS OF NORTHERN ALABAMA SMALL PARTS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS […]
MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0213 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0114 PM CDT THU MAR 25 2010 AREAS AFFECTED…NERN MS…NWRN AL…WRN/MIDDLE TN…SWRN KY CONCERNING…SEVERE POTENTIAL…WATCH LIKELY VALID 251814Z – 251915Z …STRONG STORMS EXPECTED DEVELOP AHEAD OF COLD FRONT… CONVECTION IS GRADUALLY INTENSIFYING/INCREASING IN AREAL COVERAGE BENEATH UPPER LOW OVER NRN AR. THIS FEATURE IS WELL DEFINED […]
SPC continues a slight risk for severe weather over northern and central Alabama, mainly for late afternoon and evening. An upper level storm, with cold temperatures aloft, is approaching from the west, and will move into Alabama by early evening. Also, skies will clear over Alabama from west to east, with sunshine returning in BHM […]
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A medical helicopter crashed in a rainy field in western Tennessee early Thursday, killing three crew members on a return trip from delivering a patient. There were no survivors. Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeremy Heidt in Nashville said the flight crashed near Brownsville during a rainstorm shortly after 6 a.m. […]
Scattered showers early this afternoon over most sections of Alabama. Moderate to heavy showers about midway between Montgomery and Birmingham. However, most showers over the state light to moderate. Little or no lightning but lots of lightning in a cluster of storms over the North Gulf of Mexico south of the Mobile-Gulf Shores area. Those […]
A broad zone (sort of a wide line) of showers continues over West Alabama northeastward into North Central and Northeast Alabama. This includes some moderate to heavy showers from North Jefferson County northeastward. The heaviest showers were over Cullman, Marshall and Dekalb County. Movement of all showers steadily toward the northeast. Lightning activity has diminished. […]
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