Alabama Current Watches and WarningsAlabama’s weather continues to be generally cloudy, breezy and cool…thanks to a very large upper-level low-pressure area centered over the Ohio Valley. The low is spinning off a series of weather disturbances and these in turn brought us a somewhat showery Saturday. The next disturbance is expected to trigger a few more showers mainly over [...]
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A gray, cool morning across much of north and central Alabama this morning, with a few showers moving across the area. These showers are light, and should remain so throughout the morning. We may see a few more showers late this afternoon and this evening, and we might even see a few more [...]
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If spring breakers were to grade the upcoming weekend, they might give it a C-. Not an F and certainly not an A.
The problem is a rather large and slow moving upper level area of low pressure, up around 20,000 feet in the atmosphere dropping down into the Tennessee valley. It will be centered near [...]
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What a morning? We were covered up with hail reports. When you have a moment – you should checkout our hail pictures on myfoxal.com
Looks like our upper-level low will continue to rotate just to the north of us over the next 24 hours. It’s possible higher elevations of the Tennessee Valley may even see a [...]
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Per amateur radio – trees down at the 3800 block of Steele Street in Hamilton, windows blown out of a building in Hamilton on military street. Bear Creek in Marion co. – trained spotters reporting tennis ball size hail.
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We’re waking up to rumbles of thunder. The primary threat this morning will be large hail and damaging winds. We’ve already received reports of hail the size of golfballs in the Hamilton area this morning. There is a minimal risk of tornadoes with these thunderstorms. However, I still think there is a significant wind threat. [...]
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Primary threat will be hail and winds up to 70mph. We’ll keep you updated from the Fox 6 StormWarn Center.
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Storms are getting stronger and tracking NE at 45mph
Golfball sized hail was reported in Lamar County at 215 Dime sized hail reported 3 miles north of Hamilton around 210. The threat is large hail and damaging wind gusts to 60mph.
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THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
WESTERN ALABAMA
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING FROM 1145 PM
UNTIL 500 AM CST.
HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER…THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 65
MPH…AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM [...]
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Expect the rumble of thunder during the overnight hours if you live in Marion, Lamar, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, or Sumter Counties. The thunderstorms will likely produce frequent lightning, gusty winds, and hail. Make sure you weather radios are on and functioning. This line of storms will move across the state through Friday morning. A few storms [...]
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