Tornadoes Strike Texas

Yesterday afternoon and evening, a shortwave moved across the southwestern US and into the Texas region. This encountered a fairly unstable environment across the region, and sparked off some severe thunderstorms, including one epic supercell. This storm traveled a long distance, and produced several tornadoes along its path.   TEXAS: tornado warning for parts of […]

The Impact of Extreme Weather Events: My Account

On Friday, my cowriter Jacob Wilkins wrote a piece about the impact that extreme weather events have on meteorologists and the biases they have towards other events. It was very well written, and captured the real struggle that some meteorologists face when writing forecasts and handling certain situations. I am here to tell my account […]

Tornadoes strike SE Alabama overnight

We don’t always associated tornadoes and severe weather with the winter season, but overnight Saturday in southeast Alabama, that proved to be the case. The low pressure system that was the source of our abundant rainfall in south central Kentucky also brought isolated severe weather and one supercell across Alabama. This supercell was embedded within […]