From John Talbot, ABC 33/40 Skywatcher and scanner expert… Birmingham Fire/Police Update: Command post at Old Finley/11th Pl North. Several houses with moderate damage, 3 confirmed houses with severe damage, 1 commercial structure with damage and a lot of debris throughout the area. Business “Motion Industries” in North Bham, roof blown off the structure. Searching […]
We received this note and message from Wally Coker, a longtime ABC 33/40 Weather Watcher from Clay… “I just wanted to let you know that my home was severely damaged early Monday, and will have to be completely rebuilt. We are all alive and uninjured. Glad we have a basement, on the right front corner […]
Raw aerial video of tornado damage today in Jefferson County… this is from an EF-3 tornado that moved through Center Point and Clay from AirLink 33/40…
The following is an update of critical information related to this morning’s tornado that affected several Jefferson County cities and communities: Search and rescue operations were completed shortly after 3:00 p.m. today and EMA has shifted its operations completely to the recovery phase of this event. Law enforcement is requesting that the public not re-enter […]
We understand there is little damage on the campus, but other parts of town are not as lucky. Some reports from Twitter… *”major damage to wire rd on au. Trees and pwr lns down. Cars flipped. Damage to apts, trailers, and parts of vet school property” *”My niece called, they are also evacuating Gentilly for […]
There were sent to us within the hour.. the first image is near Rainbow City Hall along U.S. 411 We have received a number of reports of what could have been a small tornado…. but that is unconfirmed. One report from Facebook: “We were just at Maverick gas station on HWY 411 west in Rainbow […]
Thanks to Shannon Miller for this image taken within the hour… this is a business in Trussville…
Lots of trees and lines down from storms in places like Homewood, Trussville, and Springville. The image below is from Homewood… Thanks to Adam McDowell for the picture…
This is damage to the Shell station by the McDonalds and Krystal near Acton Road and I-459… from Wes Butler via Twitter…
A number of trees we uprooted in Tuscaloosa this morning, including this one. Thanks to Austin Marcum for the image. Also power is out in parts of town…
Thanks to Barrett Gutter for the image below… who writes… “On AL-25 just northeast of Greensboro, AL as supercell passed through the city” And, thanks to ABC 33/40 Skywatcher Patrick Martin for these images of the damage as a result of that tornado… he writes…. “James a tornado went through north Greensboro, crossing county rd […]
Thanks to Jonathan Goode for this image… he writes… “This was taken about 10:30 am in Uniontown on Highway 80.”
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.
