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. STORMS OF APRIL: I was a child of the 1970s… living through those remarkable spring tornado seasons is one […]
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. LONG DAY AHEAD: This is going to be a long day of severe weather watches and warnings… if you […]
Wow… below is the new 00Z NAM STP (Significant Tornado Parameter) output valid at 10:00 p.m. tomorrow… Seems like the 00Z runs are trending slower and more aggressive with severe weather parameters. Will have full discussion and a new Weather Xtreme video by 6:30 a.m….
See the radar from Tulsa… this sure doesn’t bode well for Alabama tomorrow. Multiple severe storms along the dryline, and most all of them are capable of producing tornadoes. See all of the tornado warnings…
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. THIS AFTERNOON: The sky is mostly sunny across Alabama this afternoon with temperatures in the upper 70s to near […]
Here is the updated Day One convective outlook for the rest of this afternoon and tonight… It will be interesting to see how the radars light up later today across the moderate risk area. Might give us a preview of what to expect around here tomorrow. A quick peek at the 12Z models still shows […]
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. THIS AFTERNOON: It is a warm and windy day across Alabama, with gusts over 30 mph at times on […]
Time to peg the weather geek meter… but the bottom line remains that the primary severe weather will be from strong straight line winds along a squall line that will pass through Alabama tonight. The main severe weather threat will be begin over Northwest Alabama around 3-5 p.m… reaching Tuscaloosa/Birmingham/Gadsden around 6-8 p.m… and then […]
MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0409 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0858 AM CDT MON APR 11 2011 AREAS AFFECTED…WRN AND CENTRAL KY….WRN AND MIDDLE TN…NRN MS…AND SERN AR CONCERNING…SEVERE POTENTIAL…TORNADO WATCH LIKELY VALID 111358Z – 111500Z A TORNADO WATCH WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS MORNING ACROSS WRN/CENTRAL KY SWWD THROUGH WRN-MIDDLE TN TO NRN MS/SERN AR. […]
The line of severe storms is moving very quickly… it will be into Northwest Alabama shortly… A few tornado warnings have been issued by the NWS Memphis for southern Tennessee for the possibility of spin-ups along the line, but damaging straight line wind remains the biggest threat. The air is moderately unstable across Alabama, with […]
Below is a mesoscale update from SPC… I expect the first watch for Northwest Alabama to be a tornado watch, but later in the day as the storms consolidate into a single squall line, the risk will be mainly from damaging straight line winds… And, below is the surface based CAPE, or instability… values over […]
Thanks to Laura Garrett of Munford for these images… she writes… “Early morning, heard the wind coming and when it hit, hard, I heard metal moving. I thought it might be the bbq grill, but later realized it was our metal shed. It was your average metal shed and what you see in the picture […]
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