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Updated to include videos of coverage by James Spann, Kevin Collins, and Dan Satterfield on WBRC 6 in Birmingham. Scroll down to the bottom of the post. None of us who are old enough to remember the blizzard of March 12-15, 1993 will soon forget it. This storm shattered snow rec…
From NOAA Storm Data Publication 53 years ago today an F3 tornado killed two and injured five people in Lauderdale County. According to the NWS, "a concrete block cafe was demolished along Highway 72. At Whitehead, two homes were totally destroyed killing a person in each one. S…
Forty nine people were injured and one was killed in a late winter F4 tornado that moved through Tuscaloosa County, Alabama on Sunday February 23, 1975. The tornado touched down around 12:35 in the afternoon and traveled 14.4 miles from near Taylorville northeastward to Holt. So…
Birmingham Nexrad 2/16/95 at 5 a.m. when a Tornado Warning was issued for Marshall County. At 4:59 a.m. on February 16, 1995, an F3 tornado touched down three miles west of Joppa in extreme northeast Cullman County. It traveled through the town of Joppa, crossed Alabama Highway …
This is from the Montgomery Advertiser, 2/14/1899. The temperature dropped to -14 on this date in Anniston in 1899. 12 below zero in Uniontown, AL in Perry County and -7 in Opelika in Lee County on this date in 1899. On this date in 1899 the temperature dropped to five below zer…
On January 9-10, 2011, Huntsville, Alabama officially recorded 8.9" of snow, which is the third highest storm total snowfall on record. The highest was Jan. 1, 1964 with 17.1" and second was January 7-8, 1988 at 9.6". Perhaps most amazing was that between 11 p.m. and 12 midnight…
There has been much debate among Alabamians as to who or what was to blame for the chaos of thousands of motorists being stranded on Birmingham area roads Tuesday January 28, 2014 for, in some cases, over 12 hours. It seems like most of the blame has been placed on meteorologist…
Severe weather brings out the best and worst of storm spotters and storm chasers. If you are doing it for notoriety or money, you are probably doing it for the wrong reasons. If your primary motivation is to provide a public service, “ground truth” reports to the media or Nation…
I was invited, along with several ABC 33/40 Skywatchers, to attend a radar seminar at the National Weather Service in Birmingham on Saturday June 23, 2012. Meteorologist Kevin Laws, Science Operations Officer for the NWS Birmingham, conducted the training. Below are my notes fro…