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Storm Surveys & Summaries
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 Mother's Day Severe Weather Episode May 11th, 2008 - Linhares, Mark, 2008.
Two Tornadoes Confirmed May 8th, 2008 - Linhares, Mark, 2008.
Two EF0 Tornadoes April 11th, 2008 - Linhares, Mark, 2008.
Two EF2 Tornadoes March 15th, 2008 - Linhares, Mark, 2008.
Two Tornadoes Confirmed Early On March 4th, 2008, 2008 - Linhares, Mark, 2008.
Damaging Winds & Tornadoes February 26th, 2008 - Westland, Jim, 2008.
Tornado Outbreak February 17th, 2008 - Linhares, Mark, and Darone Jones, 2008.
Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak February 5 & 6, 2008 - Linhares, Mark, and Darone Jones, 2008.
Gradient Winds - January 29 & 30, 2008 - Linhares, Mark, 2008.
Tornado Outbreak - January 10, 2008 - Westland, Jim, Darone Jones and Mark Linhares, 2008.
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Damaging Winds and Tornadoes - October 22nd & 23rd - Linhares, Mark, 2007.
 Marion/Winston Counties Damaging Wind and Tornado - October 18th - Jones, Darone, 2007.
Bullock County Tornado - April 14th - Linhares, Mark, 2007.
Supercells April 11th - Linhares, Mark, 2007.
Tornado Outbreak March 1st - Linhares, Mark, 2007.
Tornadoes and Large Hail across Central Alabama - Jones, Darone, 2007.
Barbour and Tallapoosa Tornadoes - January 7, 2007 - Linhares, Mark, 2007.
Wind Damage - January 5, 2007 - Linhares, Mark, 2007.
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Demopolis and Hale County Tornadoes - November 30, 2006 - Linhares, Mark, 2006.
Severe Weather & Tornadoes - November 15, 2006 - Linhares, Mark and BMX Staff, 2006.
Blount County Tornadoes - September 22, 2006 - Jones, Darone and Mark Linhares, 2006.
Marengo County Tornado - May 10, 2006 - Linhares, Mark, 2006.
Severe Thunderstorms - April 7th & 8th - Linhares, Mark, Darone Jones and Jim Westland, 2006.
Straight Line Wind Event - March 20 - Sirmon, John and Dave Wilfing, 2006.
Two Supercells - March 13 - Jones, Darone and Mark Linhares, 2006.
Straight Line Wind Event - March 9 - Linhares, Mark A., Darone Jones and BMX Staff, 2006.
First Tornado of 2006...January 13 Barbour County - Lorek, K., K. Pence and Mark Linhares, 2006.
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6 Tornadoes...November 28, 2005 - Linhares, Mark A. and BMX Staff, 2005.
Shelby County Microburst - July 29, 2005 - DeBlock, John, and Darone Jones, 2005.
Severe Weather Outbreak...April 30, 2005 - BMX Staff, 2005.
Cherokee County...April 22, 2005 - Wright, Jason B. and Michael Scotten, 2005.
Aliceville F0...April 6, 2005 - Linhares, Mark A. and Jason B. Wright 2005.
Pickens County F0...March 13, 2005 - Linhares, Mark A., 2005.
First Tornado of 2005...January 7 Hale County - Linhares, Mark A., 2005.
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Tornado & Severe Weather Outbreak- November 23-24, 2004. - Linhares, Mark A. and Jim Westland, 2004.
First Tornadoes of 2004.
- Linhares, Mark A. and Jim Westland, 2004.
Wind Damage in Greene and Hale Counties, April 10, 2004 - Linhares, Mark A., Darone Jones and Jim Westland, 2004.
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Oakman-Parrish F1 Tornado November 18, 2003 - Linhares, Mark A., and Kevin Pence, 2003.
Severe Weather and Flooding of May 7, 2003 - Westland, Jim, 2003.
Severe Thunderstorms of April 25, 2003 - Westland, Jim, 2003.
White Plains Tornado, Calhoun and Cleburne Counties, March 6, 2003 -Westland, Jim, 2003.
First Tornado of 2003, Feb. 15, Marengo County -Linhares, Mark A., Jim Westland and Brian Peters, 2003.
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Tornado Outbreak November 10, 2002 - BMX Staff, 2002.
Cullman County F0 Tornado October 4, 2002 - Hurley, Kristin, and Mark A. Linhares, 2002.
Heavy Rainfall September 22, 2002 - Westland, Jim, and Mark A. Linhares, 2002.
Heavy Rainfall January 19 - 25, 2002 - Murphy, Ronald, 2002.
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November 24, 2001 Alabama Tornado Outbreak - BMX Staff, 2001.
August 2001 Northern Alabama Floods - Murphy, Ronald, 2001.
Severe Thunderstorms, May 24th, 2001 - Murphy, Ronald, 2001.
March 2nd, 2001, Montgomery Tornado Storm Survey - Peters, Brian, and Ronald Murphy, 2001.
Bow Echo Severe Thunderstorms - February 16th, 2001 - Westland, Jim, Ronald Murphy, Mark A. Linhares and Patricia Hart, 2001.
Montgomery Tornado January 19th, 2001 -Peters, Brian and Jim Westland, 2001.
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Rainsville, AL Tornado April 22, 1997 - Peters, Brian, and Ronald Murphy, 1997.
Survey of the Columbus, Georgia, Tornado 13 March, 1997 - Peters, Brian, 1997.
Storm Survey of the Tuscaloosa Tornado 24 January, 1997 - Peters, Brian, and Ronald Murphy, 1997.
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Tropical Weather Summaries
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Hurricane Rita Tornadoes- September 25, 2005 - Linhares, Mark A. and BMX Staff, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina- August 29, 2005 - Linhares, Mark A. and Jim Westland, 2005.
Hurricane Dennis - July 10, 2005 - Linhares, Mark A., Kristin Scotten and BMX Staff, 2005.
Tropical Storm Cindy Tornadoes - July 6, 2005 - Linhares, Mark A., 2005.
Tropical Storm Arlene - June 11 & 12, 2005 - Linhares, Mark A. and Kristina Sumrall, 2005.
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Severe Weather Papers
Severe Weather Summary For Central Alabama On March 1, 2007 - BMX Staff, 2007. A Joint Effort between the NWS Birmingham, AL. and NASA Earth Science Office (SPoRT). Presented at the Southeastern Coastal & Atmospheric Processes Symposium (SeCAPS) 2007.
Overview of the Central Alabama 28 November 2005 Mini Tornado Outbreak - Scotten, Michael and Kristin Scotten, 2006
A Severe Weather Climatology for the Birmingham, Alabama County Warning Area - Hart, A. Patricia, Mark A. Linhares, and Ron A. Murphy, 2001.
Left-Moving Supercell of April 7, 2004 - Rose, Mark W., and Jim Westland, 2004.
Tornado Outbreak November 2001 - Linhares, Mark A., 2004.
An interesting radar image - Three-Body Scatter Spike - Entremont, Chad, 2001.
NWS/GHCC Collaborative Workshop on Mesoscale Modeling and Short-term Convective Forecasting. A Joint Effort for the GHCC, NWS Birmingham, AL, and NWS Southern Region Headquarters Global. Held at the Hydrology and Climate Center, Huntsville, AL June 30 - July 1, 1999. Contains information and presentation slides from the workshop.
The Tornadic Supercell of 8 April 1998 Across Alabama and Georgia - Pence, Kevin J., and B. E. Peters, 2000.
A Comparison of VIL, Rotational Velocity, and Storm Top in Two Tornadic Supercells - Kilduff, R., 1998.
Bibb/Shelby County Severe Storm of 21 February 1997 - Bradshaw, J. T., 1997.
A survey of six tornadoes that occurred over Central Alabama on March 18, 1996 - Kilduff, R., and B. E. Peters, 1996.
The Central Alabama Tornadoes of 6 March 1996 - Pence Kevin J., J. T. Bradshaw, and M. W. Rose, 1998.
Paper published in the AMS Preprints of the 19th Conference on Severe Local Storms 14-18 September 1998 - Minneapolis, Minnesota.
An Analysis of the Selma/Montgomery Alabama Severe Weather Outbreak - 6 March 1996 - Rose, M. W., 1996.
Spectrum of Northern Alabama tornadic thunderstorms as depicted by WSR-88D radars - Pence, K., B. Peters, R. Murphy, and J. Westland, 1995.
Published in the 18th Conference on Severe Local Storms preprints, Amer. Meteor. Soc.
Radar images of a tornado producing supercell on 18 May 1995 - Kilduff, R., 1995.
A comparison study of VIL vs rotational velocity associated with tornadic thunderstorms - Murphy, R., K. Pence, J. Westland, and R. Kilduff, 1994.
Postprints, The First WSR-88D Users' Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, OSF/JSPO, 259-265.
Tornadogenesis via Squall Line and Supercell Interaction: The November 15, 1989, Huntsville, Alabama, Tornado. - Goodman, Steven, J. and Kevin R. Knupp, 1993.
Looking Back at the Smithfield Tornado, 1977 -Peters, B. E., 1999.
April 3, 1974 Tornado Super Outbreak: 30 Year Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony - BMX Staff, 2004.
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Satellite Notes
Winter Weather Papers & Events
Central Alabama Heavy Snow, January 19, 2008. -Jones, Darone, and Jim Westland, 2008.
Wintry Precipitation across Central Alabama, January 16, 2008. -Linhares, Mark and Scott Unger, 2008.
Wintry Mix across Central Alabama, January 31, 2007. -Linhares, Mark, 2007.
Winter Weather Forecasting Techniques
-Bradshaw, J.T., 2000.
Alabama Snow Study
-Borden, F. and J.T. Bradshaw.
East Alabama Ice Storm, January 28 & 29, 2005
-Westland, J., 2005.
Remembering the Blizzard of 1993 - A special report on the 10th anniversary of Alabama's historic winter storm. - BMX Staff 2003
White Christmas History
- BMX Staff, 2003.
March Snowstorms in Alabama - What are the Odds?
- Bradshaw, J. T. and L. Bradshaw, 1998.
Visible Satellite Image Showing Snow Cover on December 14, 1997
- Murphy, R., 1997.
Alabama Snow Storm of December 18, 1996
- Peters, B., 1996.
Relationships between Conditional Symmetric Instability, thunder, and heavy snowfall during the Storm of the Century
- Bradshaw, J. T., 1994 Southern Region Technical Attachment.
Revisiting Sam Contorno's Studies of Winter Precipitation Events in Alabama - Bradshaw, J.T. and Lara Bradshaw.
The Performance of the Magic Chart in a Southeastern U.S. Snow Storm.
- Kilduff, R. and B. Peters, 1992. Southern Region Technical Attachment
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Outreach Activities
Talladega County & Superspeedway Recognized as StormReady® - Jones, Darone, 2007.
Summer 2006 Oybachi Newsletter - BMX Staff, 2006.
Amateur Radio Field Day - June 24, 2006 - BMX Staff, 2006.
Spring 2006 Oybachi Newsletter - BMX Staff, 2006.
Benjamin Franklin Award Presented - BMX Staff, 2006.
Winter 2005 Oybachi Newsletter - BMX Staff, 2005.
Fall 2005 Oybachi Newsletter - BMX Staff, 2005.
Wings & Wheels 2005 - BMX Staff, 2005.
Emergency Managers Weather School 2005 - BMX Staff, 2005.
Summer 2005 Oybachi Newsletter - BMX Staff, 2005.
Weather Awareness Day at Quintard Mall 2005 - Jones, Darone and Ken Lorek, 2005.
First Flood Ready Community - Wadley, Alabama - BMX Staff, 2004.
Weather Awareness Day at Eastdale Mall 2003 - BMX Staff, 2003.
National Weather Service Birmingham History - Peters, Brian, 2003.
National Weather Service History - BMX Staff, 2003.
Weather Awareness Day at the Summit 2002 - Westland, J., Darone Jones and Ken Lorek, 2002.
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Forecasting & Assorted Research
An Examination of the Hail Detection Althorithm Over Central Alabama - Laws, Kevin B., Scott W. Unger, and Johm Sirmon, 2008. Paper and Poster presented at the 88th Annual American Meteorological Society Conference in New Orleans 2008.
Overview of the Central Alabama 28 November 2005 Mini Tornado Outbreak - Scotten, Michael and Kristin Scotten, 2006
The Interaction of a Gravity Wave and a Thunderstorm - Kilduff, B., 1999
Analysis and Comments on a March 1998 Wedge Event - Rose, M. W., 1998
A Comparison of VIL, Rotational Velocity, and Storm Top in Two Tornadic Supercells
- Kilduff, R., 1998.
The Alabama gravity wave event of February 22, 1998: A classic mesoscale forecasting challenge - Bradshaw, J. T., R. Murphy and K. Pence, 1998
Smoke Plume Detected on the WSR-88D October 2, 1997 - Murphy, R. 1997
Special Report on the Hytop WSR-88D Radar.
- Peters, B., 1997.
Local El Niño Links -BMX Staff, 2003
Local El Niño Paper -BMX Staff and SRH.
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Climatology
2007 Central Alabama Weather Year in Review - Statistics -Linhares, Mark, and Gary Goggins, 2007.
2007 Central Alabama Weather Year in Review -Linhares, Mark, and Gary Goggins, 2007.
September & October 2007 Review -Linhares, Mark, 2007.
August 2007 Review -Linhares, Mark, 2007.
First Half of 2007 Review -Linhares, Mark, 2007.
July 2007 Review -Linhares, Mark, 2007.
April 2007 Review -Linhares, Mark, 2007.
February & March 2007 Review -Linhares, Mark, 2007.
2006 Weather Year in Review -Linhares, Mark, 2007.
Summer 2006 Statement -Scotten, Kristin, 2006.
Summer 2006 Statement -Wilfing, David, 2006.
Local El Niño Study -Petti, Gary.
2005 Weather Year in Review - Linhares, Mark A. and Darone Jones, 2005
2004 Central Alabama Weather Summary - Scotten, K. and M. Linhares, 2005
Dry Conditions in Central and South Alabama in March 2004 - Westland, J. 2004
2003 Central Alabama Weather Summary - Scotten K. and M. Linhares, 2004
2002 Central Alabama Weather Summary - Scotten K., M. Linhares and P. Hart, 2003
2001 Central Alabama Weather Summary - BMX Staff, 2002
2000 Central Alabama Weather Summary - Petti G. and J. Westland, 2001
1999 Central Alabama Weather Summary - BMX Staff, 2000
Decade of the 90's - BMX Staff, 2000
1998 Central Alabama Weather Summary - BMX Staff, 1999
September 1998 Tennessee Valley's Hottest and Driest - BMX Staff, 1998
1997 Central Alabama Weather Summary - Petti G., R. Murphy and C. Liscinsky, 1998
Top Ten Weather Events in Alabama during the 20th Century - BMX Staff, 1998
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