Supercells moving across North Texas tonight ahead of a cold front have produced multiple tornadoes, including a large and extremely dangerous tornado that crossed the Dallas area between 6-7 p.m. tonight. It touched down around 6:47 in eastern Dallas County north of Sunnyvale. It caused damage in and around Garland, where we have heard reports […]
Isn’t technology amazing? Take a fantastic drone video of damage from yesterday’s Midfield Tornado shot by SkyBama. Match it up against Google Maps Street View, and you get some amazing before and after comparisons and seat of the pants assessments of the damage caused by the tornado. I have no formal training in damage assessment, […]
It was an incredibly busy day across the state yesterday, with widespread flash flooding and even a few tornadoes. It wasn’t much of a Merry Christmas, but more of a messy Christmas. Thankfully, the weather is calmer today. We remain under southerly flow, and temperatures this afternoon are mainly in the 70s, while locations in […]
NWS Survey teams have been hard at work this morning checking the damage from yesterday’s tornadoes across Central Alabama. They found that the Coaling Tornado in Tuscaloosa County was an EF-0 with top winds of 75 mph. It was on the ground for five miles and and a path width of 150 yards. The team […]
Christmas Day turned into a wild day for weather across Alabama with record heat, widespread flash flooding, and tornadoes. Birmingham (77), Anniston (78), and Tuscaloosa (80) set new record highs, most of the old records were set back in the 1980s. The last of the flash flood warnings issued yesterday for portions of East Central […]
It has been a day of terrible flooding and a couple of tornadoes across Alabama. The following flash flood warnings are still in effect: …Marion, Fayette, western Jefferson, Lamar, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Winston til 345 am …Blount, northern Jefferson and St. Clair County will 145 am. Heavy rain continues over Northwest Alabama, over parts of Marion, […]
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.
