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A Prophetic Call

A Prophetic Call

| April 2, 2011 @ 9:00 am | 2 Replies

On the morning of April 2, 1974, Mr. Robert Ferry, the Meteorologist in Charge of the National Weather Service Forecast office in Birmingham received a call from Allen Pearson, Director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City. Dr. Pearson started the call asking about the tornadoes that had popped through the state […]

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Winter Storm Warnings Starting To Be Issued

Winter Storm Warnings Starting To Be Issued

| January 8, 2011 @ 3:32 pm | 19 Replies

NWS offices are starting to our west are starting to issue Winter Storm Warnings now for Sunday into Monday. The NWS Birmingham is planning to hold off issuing a winter storm warning until later this evening.  The system is now not expected to cause snow accumulations before 6 p.m. Sunday in the Birmingham warning area.  […]

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Your Winter Storm Surprises?  Disappointments?

Your Winter Storm Surprises? Disappointments?

| January 8, 2011 @ 9:00 am | 11 Replies

It has been a while since a widespread snowfall has been forecast this far in advance with fairly high confidence and good model agreement here in Central Alabama.  There are still lots of details to be worked out.  Remember, this is just the pregame.  The teams have not even taken the field yet. I remember […]

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Widespread Winter Storm Watches

Widespread Winter Storm Watches

| January 7, 2011 @ 9:01 pm | 13 Replies

(The early model data is coming in, and it looks like the current forecast is in good shape. Scroll down to read James’ recent post.) Winter storm watches have been posted for a wide area from East Texas (starting Sunday morning) into Central South Carolina (starting late Sunday night) for the storm that will develop […]

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Afternoon Update

Afternoon Update

| December 18, 2010 @ 3:01 pm | Reply

Beautiful visible satellite photo of the South Central U.S. from this afternoon It has turned out to be a beautiful, just slightly chilly December Saturday afternoon across Alabama.  Temperatures currently range between 50F and 55F across Central Alabama. Skies have cleared nicely, giving way to nice sunshine. There is a really pretty patch of what […]

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Saturday Sleet

Saturday Sleet

| December 18, 2010 @ 7:43 am | Reply

Many folks woke up to the sound of sleet bouncing off their decks and windows and striking the leaves around their homes and apartments on this Saturday morning. Sleet is like the Rice Krispies of the weather world, with lots of snap, crackle and pop, but fortunately its not really hazardous. Having said that, if […]

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Some Sleet Reported

Some Sleet Reported

| December 18, 2010 @ 12:38 am | 10 Replies

Just received a report at 12:52 of light rain/sleet mixed at Bluff Park with a temperature of 34F. Another report of some sleet in Hoover. We appreciate any reports you can give out there across the area overnight…just add a comment…next update by 2:30 a.m. Redrew this map slightly after looking at temperatures in the […]

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Intensifying Storm South of Columbus

Intensifying Storm South of Columbus

| November 29, 2010 @ 11:31 pm | Reply

A rapidly developing thunderstorm south of Columbus MS shows signs of already becoming tornadic. It is about 45 miles SSW of Vernon in Lamar County, heading on a NNE path at around 50 mph. It will cross US-82 near the Alabama/Mississippi border passing over extreme northwestern Pickens County then into Lamar County and could pass […]

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Heads Up Lamar County (and northern Pickens)

Heads Up Lamar County (and northern Pickens)

| November 29, 2010 @ 11:12 pm | 1 Reply

To our friends in Lamar County…as well as those in Pickens County. That’s a dangerous storm passing near Starkville right now…it will move near Columbus and then toward Lamar County and northern Pickens County in West Alabama. It will be into West Alabama between 11:30 and 11:45. A tornado warning is in effect for the […]

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Marginal Severe Weather Threat Ahead

Marginal Severe Weather Threat Ahead

| November 28, 2010 @ 8:43 pm | 1 Reply

Rainfall amounts through Tuesday evening. It looks like we will deal with a typical late season low instability, high shear severe weather threat late Monday night into Tuesday morning across Central Alabama. There is a good bit of uncertainty about the situation, especially since our two main models have differences in instability. They are in […]

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Overnight Showers

Overnight Showers

| November 13, 2010 @ 10:25 pm | Reply

A weakening cold front likes just inside the Alabama/Mississippi border late tonight. Light showers cover parts of Pickens, Fayette, Winston and Lawrence Counties. Slightly heavier showers extend from just east of Tupelo into the Columbus MS area. These showers will continue to move northeast and will produce light rain over parts of Lamar and Marion […]

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Showers in our Future

Showers in our Future

| November 13, 2010 @ 3:36 pm | Reply

THIS AFTERNOON: Cirrus clouds in the western sky are a harbinger of the changes that are coming. Our weakening cold front is across the Mississippi River this afternoon. Showers extended from west of Nashville down to near Greenwood in the Mississippi Delta. Those showers are moving east and will reach northwestern Alabama counties like Lamar, […]

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Chilly Saturday

Chilly Saturday

| November 6, 2010 @ 1:12 pm | 1 Reply

BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOON: If you went west from Alabama this afternoon, you wouldn’t even find any clouds until you got to New Mexico. But even with the full sunshine, high temperatures are still going to only make the middle 50s at best. MORNING LOWS: Brian Peters compiled an excellent list of morning lows from across the […]

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