In Alabama, hurricane preparations start long before a storm enters the Gulf of Mexico. Emergency officials have a response plan in place months before a hurricane season starts. The governor and the Alabama Emergency…
When severe weather threatens, we are often told to seek shelter if we're in a mobile home or in a flood-prone area. But Alabama News Network found out that sometimes, shelters are hard to…
When most of us think of hurricanes, we think first of high winds. But flooding is also a threat, even far inland. When people don't take the flooding threat seriously, lives and property can…
Hurricanes don't just bring danger and damage to the coast. Montgomery has felt the impact of Hurricane Opal in 1995, Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and from many other storms -- even tropical storms that…
Hurricane Michael will forever be remembered on the Gulf Coast. The Category 5 hurricane hit the Panama City, Florida, area in October 2018, bringing devastation that was experienced far inland, including in Alabama. Here…
There is a vast amount of technology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. They have a variety of ways they conduct research on severe weather and elaborate on how they can learn more…
Storm chasing, it is a real thing, and each year hundreds if not thousands of people head to the U.S. Plains to do it. Meteorologist Ryan Stinnett interview famed storm chaser, Accuweather Extreme Meteorologist Reed Timmer, who not only chases…
Weather prediction is made possible in part by the use of weather balloons. Meteorologist Ben Lang traveled to one of the launch locations, in Birmingham to see a weather balloon launch first hand and find out the importance the data…
Like a beating heart always at work, radar sites across America keep watch of the sky to help keep us safe. Meteorologist Elissia Wilson looks at the ins and outs of a radar site that we use at Alabama News…
When preparing for severe weather, there are items that you do not want to forget. We stopped by Montgomery's Home Depot to find out what those items are. They are making it…
A tornado doesn't slow down or stop for anyone. It mows down homes, flips…
The company CoreLogic is out with an annual ranking of states based on how many homes are at risk for damage from hurricanes and how serious the risk is. They…
It seems no region of the U.S. is immune to extreme weather. A driving force behind some it can be attributed to those warmer waters over the eastern Pacific just west…
As operational meteorologists, we are dealing with an issue that won’t go away, and seems to be more problematic every year. Today I look at this problem known as…
Lightning can be deadly and disruptive by often knocking out power, sparking fires and damaging or destroying electronic devices. "We have system in place once the lightning were to strike to shut the system…
Most of us have been in this situation. On average there are more than five million vehicle crashes each year. Twenty percent of these crashes are weather-related. Most of them related to…
