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The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm CST on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010.
If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.
Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate:
Please call: (877) 951-0997 and enter participants code 741083.
The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm CST on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010. If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference. Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate: Please call: (877) 951-0997 and enter participants code 741083.
The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm CST on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010.
If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.
Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate:
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The National Weather Service has started an experimental program for submitting storm reports via Twitter! Details can be found here.
GeoTagging (more from Twitter) is the act of associating geographical information with something, and Twitter has recently added the capability GeoTagging individual Tweets. This allows the NWS to correlate each Tweet to your location when it was sent. This capability will help to enhance and increase timely & accurate online weather reporting and communications between the public and their local weather forecast offices.
If Geotagging is available on your 3rd party Twitter application:
  1. First make sure geotagging is turned on for your 3rd party Twitter app.
  2. Second make sure geotagging is turned on for your twitter account page.
  3. Now Submit your Tweet report via your 3rd party app in the following format: #wxreport <your signifcant weather report>
If Geotagging is NOT available on your 3rd party Twitter application:
  1. Log in to your twitter account via the web or mobile device.
  2. Submit your Tweet report in the following format: Continue reading

NEW 1 Inch Hail Criteria

On January 4th, 2010, at 6:01 pm, all National Weather Service forecast offices will operationally change the minimum hail size criterion used to issue severe thunderstorm warnings from 3/4 inch (penny sized) diameter or larger hail to 1 inch (quarter sized) diameter or larger.

No change is being made to the severe thunderstorm warning criterion of wind gusts equal to or in excess of 58 miles per hour.

For more details see http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=oneinchhail

Mark / WD4NYL

President of ALERT

Severe Weather is expected tonight. We still plan to have the meeting and the board meeting tonight. Participation is voluntary and the phone conference is also an option so we are leaving it up to our members/guest as to whether they come to the meeting or not.

I would put the chances on a call out in the >75% category.  The watch may be out earlier, but I think the main threat will be between 9 PM and 6 AM…probably getting REAL serious around midnight.  If the probabilities continue, expect a PWO (Public Weather Outlook) for overnight tornadoes…
John Deblock – WCM

The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm CST on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009.

If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.

Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate:

Please call: (877) 951-0997 and enter participants code 741083.

Severe Weather is expected tonight. We still plan to have the meeting and the board meeting tonight. Participation is voluntary and the phone conference is also an option so we are leaving it up to our members/guest as to whether they come to the meeting or not.

I would put the chances on a call out in the >75% category.  The watch may be out earlier, but I think the main threat will be between 9 PM and 6 AM…probably getting REAL serious around midnight.  If the probabilities continue, expect a PWO (Public Weather Outlook) for overnight tornadoes…
John Deblock – WCM

The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm CST on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009.

If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.

Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate:

Please call: (877) 951-0997 and enter participants code 741083.

Continue reading

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