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Requirement for the community:

NWS Birmingham requests that all Storm Spotters, weather enthusiasts, and amateur radio operators refrain from calling themselves “Certified NWS Storm Chasers.”

The NWS does train storm spotters but will never train, certify, encourage, or endorse storm chasing. No such training exists for storm chasing, and doing so is a risk to your own life and property, especially with Alabama’s geography.

If you choose to chase, you do so at your own risk. Please do not associate the NWS brands with your personal actions, or results of those actions.

Let’s ensure that we are appropriately representing the brand, as well as ourselves and our community. Continue reading

Greetings!

In addition to our digital modes we posted a few months back we are now on these Analog systems as well, AllStar and EchoLink!

Find us here:

AllStar: 48168
EchoLink: K4NWS-L (155003)

Our nodes also support a bridge between Analog and the ALERT DMR Talk Group 31013.

For all our Amateur Radio options please reference this page on our site: https://alert-alabama.org/blog/?page_id=1736

I got the following email from Brett Adair who is one of our spotters in the chat room he did a chase for the recent storms i though you would like to see.

 

73,

Russell Thomas, KV4S

ALERT Membership

The ALabama Emergency Response Team

 

 

4/11/2008 was a big day for the Alabama Storm Trackers especially on an exposure level.“ We just wanted to direct everyone to our blog and show some of the coverage that we were able to capture on our live stream.“ We are basically taking this opportunity to thank all of our sponsors who have supported us.“ This post will also be featured on the 33/40 blog page.“ With the help of GRLevelX, Allisonhouse products, SevereStreaming.com, Autonet Mobile, Cyfre and Maximum Signal we were able to intercept and relay video of this dangerous weather in a timely fashion.“ Our coverage was watched by the National Weather Service as well during this event.“ The spotternetwork also proved to play a key role in one of our critical storm reports as it always does.“ Thanks again everyone!


http://www.alabamaweather.org/blog

Brett Adair

Alabama Storm Trackers

http://alabamaweather.org/blog

ALERT / National Weather Service Birmingham Coverage Area

  • ALERT covers the BMX county warning area. Presently, this includes: Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore, Etowah, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lamar, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Marion, Montgomery, Perry, Pickens, Pike, Randolph, Russell, Shelby, St Clair, Sumter, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Winston