Every forecast across Greater Birmingham, highway-clear.
Official National Weather Service forecasts for Greater Birmingham — seven counties over the last ridges of the Appalachians, from Hoover and Vestavia south to Clanton, north to Oneonta and Jasper, and east along I-20 to Pell City.
Every Alabama region shares one system — the same maps, the same live radar, the same climate record. This is the heart of Dixie Alley, and it is a harder problem than the plains. The tornadoes here come at night, they come in the trees where nobody sees them, they come in April and again in November, and the ridges and hollows south of the city hide them until they are close. April 27, 2011 crossed these counties.