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Alabama’s 2025 Severe Weather Awareness Week continues. Thursday’s topic from NWS Huntsville: Tornadoes

Alabama’s “Severe Weather Awareness Week” rolls along on this Thursday (and we will do this for Tennessee later this month, as mentioned before). Today’s topic from the NWS Huntsville is concerning a weather hazard in our area that gets most if not all of the attention… Tornadoes. A tornado is defined as a windstorm comprised […]

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Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak – 17 Years Later

Seventeen years ago today, on February 5th, 2008, the “Super Tuesday” Tornado Outbreak heavily impacted the midsouth. Eighty-seven tornadoes ripped across the south during the outbreak. After all was said and done, 57 people lost their lives. Image Credit – Unknown During the outbreak, a few notable tornadoes swept through our area and surrounding areas.

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Alabama’s 2025 Severe Weather Awareness Week continues. Wednesday’s topic from NWS Huntsville: Flooding

“Severe Weather Awareness Week” for the state of Alabama (Tennessee does this program later this month) rolls right along on this Wednesday, and today’s topic from NWS Huntsville is a weather hazard we face in the Tennessee Valley that may not always get the attention or respect that it deserves: flooding. On average, flooding is

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Alabama’s 2025 Severe Weather Awareness Week continues. Tuesday’s topic from NWS Huntsville: Lightning and Severe Thunderstorms

Alabama’s “Severe Weather Awareness Week” continues on Tuesday (but this info applies to EVERYONE and we do this again later in the month when Tennessee does theirs). Today’s topic from the NWS Huntsville office is “Lightning and Severe Thunderstorms”. Here in the Tennessee Valley, the vast majority of weather hazards we face through the year

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Alabama’s 2025 Severe Weather Awareness Week begins. Monday’s topic from NWS Huntsville: Preparedness and Safety

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has proclaimed February 3rd through the 7th as “Severe Weather Awareness Week” this year. Usually, this is done the final week of the month when Alabama does the weekend state tax holiday for preparedness supplies. That tax holiday is still scheduled for the last week of this month, but SWAW has

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February arrives tomorrow. Here is a look at the month’s average climatology stats in our part of the Tennessee Valley

We turn the page on January and head into a new month tomorrow (Saturday). That means it’s time to look at the monthly climatology stats to get an idea of what is considered “average” in our part of the Tennessee Valley. As we always explain, the NWS official climate reporting station for our viewing area

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Winter takes a break for now as warmer temps take hold. Rain chances Thursday into early Friday.

We have some patches of mid/high level cloud cover across the area this afternoon, but otherwise, it’s a nice weather day across the Tennessee Valley on this Wednesday. Temperatures are up into the mid 60s this afternoon, with one or two isolated spots even making a run at the upper 60s! Clouds are increasing just

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