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Updated: NWS Birmingham Damage Surveys From This Past Weekend’s Storms

Updated: NWS Birmingham Damage Surveys From This Past Weekend’s Storms

| January 24, 2017 @ 2:15 pm

This blog post will be updated as more survey results come in and are added to the public information statements… As of 12:03 AM Wednesday, January 25th, here is the latest information from the National Weather Service in Birmingham on the ongoing surveys of storm damage on the storm system that hit Central Alabama from […]

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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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Severe Weather Possible Late Tonight

Severe Weather Possible Late Tonight

| February 24, 2011 @ 6:22 am | 7 Replies

An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player on the right sidebar of the blog. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. STORM ALERT 2011 TONIGHT: A quick reminder we will be at Lincoln High School tonight in Talladega for the […]

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Five Tornadoes Confirmed

Five Tornadoes Confirmed

| December 3, 2010 @ 12:24 pm | Reply

The NWS was able to identify another tornado track from the outbreak earlier this week in Perry County… bring the total number of tornadoes to five…. NOUS44 KBMX 031759 PNSBMX ALZ011>015-017>050-040300- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT…ADDED PERRY COUNTY TORNADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1159 AM CST FRI DEC 3 2010 …5 TORNADOES CONFIRMED ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA… […]

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