Windy Saturday

April 3, 2005, 6:49 am

Posted by Brian Peters in General Thoughts
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It was a windy Saturday across the southeastern United States as the area was squeezed between the low pressure system over the mid-Atlantic states moving away and a high pressure system to our west. The tight gradient in the pressure field brought wind gusts to just above tropical storm force (39 mph to 73 mph) to many localities. Here's a summary of peak wind gusts from observing stations across the area prepared by the National Weather Service at the Shelby County Airport.

...PEAK WINDS FROM SATURDAY 02 APRIL 2005...

AUBURN 38 KNOTS 44 MPH
BIRMINGHAM 35 KNOTS 40 MPH
ANNISTON 35 KNOTS 40 MPH
MONTGOMERY 33 KNOTS 38 MPH
MAXWELL AFB 33 KNOTS 38 MPH
TROY 33 KNOTS 38 MPH
GADSDEN 33 KNOTS 38 MPH
CALERA 31 KNOTS 36 MPH
TUSCALOOSA 30 KNOTS 35 MPH
ALEXANDER CITY 30 KNOTS 35 MPH

If you were outside at all yesterday, it was one of those unique days that helps us understand that wind can really make noise.

But today will be much less windy and noisy.

-Brian-

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Posted by
on April 3, 2005, 9:25 am

peak wind gust in Inverness was 35 MPH @ 12:55p

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Posted by Josh
on April 3, 2005, 12:05 pm

Here in Franklin county I had a plastic bag and the wind picked it up over the tree tops and carried it for a mile or two!

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Posted by CLay
on April 3, 2005, 5:39 pm

Just returned from Gulf Shores, where the wind easily sustained itself over 40 mph. It was also quite flooded.

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Posted by
on April 3, 2005, 7:39 pm

I actually posted this yesterday in Weather Discussions, and was wondering if you have a comment on what happened......
What happened with the weather this morning??? I expected the winds, but the HAIL??? I had a bass Tournament in Gadsden this morning, and according to last nights 10pm report, we were expecting maybe some light Drizzle, but around 6am when that big black cloud came upon us, we had winds approaching 50mph and what seemed like light hail and/or sleet... Can you tell me how this happened??? How to miss something like this? I understand that the weather can change on a dimes notice, but there is a big difference between Drizzle and HAIL...

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Posted by Eicky Vickers
on April 3, 2005, 8:28 pm

Well Chris, there were a few including james, that mentioned the possibility of hail with any left over moisture from that morning. What happened is when the cold core upper low passed just to the north of us, it brought a lot of cold air in the mid and upper levels of the atmosphere. The moisture came through this cold air and formed some hail along with cold rain showers. Any time that a cold core low comes through or passes just to the north of us, than there will be the possibility of hail coming out of harmless rain showers.

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on July 16, 2005, 8:33 am