I watched the complete coverage. They had video of the tornado as it was forming live. Their camera then lost power. That is why you did not see them with video in the 5 minutes out of the 24+ hours of coverage they had of the storms. We are spoiled to have James Spann. He is the best in the world, including Oklahoma.
Spann is AWESOME, Gary is great too. I worked at WCFT 33 in Tuscaloosa while Spann was on Channel 6 still back in the 90s. These storms in AL, MS, TN, AR, LA, and GA are absolute BEASTS. Just a powerful as the biggest Woodward, OK 1947, OKC 1999, Andover 1991, etc.. you have but they are almost always much harder to spot, happen very often in hours of darkness (although May 3 had some that were very destructive after dark in OK and KS), etc.. I think the Deep South wants the respect it deserves!
This is absolutely a JOKE. Are you kidding me? I have watched the tornado watch and warning grow and expand, know the process COMPLETELY from Fawbush and Miller on, know EVERYTHING you do and probably much more, and some of these people have a legitimate beef here. March 3, 1966, April 8, 1998, April 3, 1974, April 4, 1977, April 27, 2011 just a few I can rattle-out in my sleep -- ALL days saw massive F5s in MS or AL that would make a "chaser" from KS, OK, TX soil themselves and cry >:(
well, when u have multiple EF 3's, 4's ,and 5's on the ground all at once, it can overwhelm even the best outlets. Nobodies fault, it was a once in a generation type of outbreak. And as you said, OK and texas usually get the storms like we had that day, not us. I dare say even those states would have had trouble keeping up with it. It surpassed the super outbreak of 1974, and thats saying something.
that was just me being angry at my camera because I was "storm chasing", but, not in Oklahoma, and I NEVER will, because there is NO such this as storm CHASING in Oklahoma,.....only storm interception, and, lazy fucks who can't see their own dicks that are afraid to come to the south where niggers and white trash get tossed around like a dream video for you, what the fuck is your problem fuck face.
Dude, i thought i told dipshit faggots like you that are drops outs and fail at everything in life, INCLUDING this REALLY shitty POOR quality video, I mean AUDIO, with NO VIDEO, and you have NO idea how SHITTY this sounds on you tube,
You are a fucking idiot,
please, if you want to ACT like a FAG, great, you already did that, but if you want to BE a FAG, which you are, COMPRESS your FUCKING LAME VIDEOS so the SOUND LEVEL is CONSISTENT.
@WhelenVTXR2 ...As a storm spotter in MS, I agree. By the way, just because we're from the south and might talk slow doesn't mean we're stupid! Feel free to kiss this!
@TeaParty2012 You're right! Having spotters and helicopters does help save lives during severe weather events. But something you should think about, is that here in the southeast, we have very hilly terrain and lots of trees. So, this makes spotting very difficult in this area. Also, the morning of the April 27th storms , we had very strong winds (60-80mph) and tornadoes. A LOT of people were with out power and could not get information about the storms.
Who the hell are you to talk over one of the most eminent meteorologists of our time? Maybe if you shut up you would know he was warning people in specific areas that the storm was heading there way
NWS should change their watches? NWS issued a PDS Tornado Watch at 1:45 CDT that day. It also included the words "tornado outbreak situation". I think those are some scary words. What do you want? And there were a shitload of deaths because large, exceptionally violent wedge tornadoes slammed into densely populated areas, in a region many people do not have basements. I agree with the comment on spotting this region. Hilly with tons of trees...you often cannot see shit from the ground.
I just happened to run across this video. We could have had spotters at every mile and it wouldn't have helped those of us who lost their power at about 4:30 that morning when the first line rolled through. I think I saw where the number was around 250,000 homes without a way to get the information.
Just wondering if anyone knew, if a tornado came through our town where would my family hide? we don't have a basement, or cellar of any type, we have a closet with a window in the same room and a hallway surrounded by our bedroom doors and bathroom door, what place would be more safe?
@alastormspotter Remember, this is Dixie Alley you are talking about. This isn't tornado alley. There is a very distinct difference between the two: Dixie Alley is covered with trees which makes it harder to chase there. But like you said, in tornado alley it is a lot easier to see the tornado. During the Tuscaloosa tornado, even the Storm Riders couldn't spot so think about it.
@TeaParty2012 From a person that actually worked this event in a TV weather office in Birmingham... "driving" the radar for the coverage on FOX 6 WBRC that day... you REALLY need to come over here for a day and see the terrain we deal with, and the rain-wrapped nature of these storms here in Alabama... before you criticize. We do NOT deal with the same favorable conditions for live spotting and video streaming here as you are used to in Oklahoma. You can't do what isn't possible!
@fgossage And yet you still did a fantastic job :-) Thank God some were visible. Some were absolutely unbelievable in their massive size and phenominal ground speed. Tanner and Capshaw has the one from Channel 48 (I think) one-mile plus wide moving 60 at the VERY least.
Hi , I am Chuck from Tullahoma , Tn. I made a You-tube video for a late mothers day gift after we lost 2 friends in Phil Cambell April 2011. My family is from Russiville Ala. In 2010 , I had a suggestion documented on how to PREVENT a tornado from touching the ground by a method that had not been thought of before. My approach is totally out of the box. When the Wright brothers wanted to fly for the 1st time, They were not trying to built an 747 airliner. STOPPING A TORNADO - You tube video
My point is that had the tornado hit our store like it did the church rectory there coulda been a hundered people dead including myself and two close family members all because management didn't want to disturb business. Those are the types of reasons people die in tornadoes. The reason no one was talking about it is because you live like 600 miles away. there are broadcasts from twc and local tuscaloosa channels on youtube.
I was working on new years eve at a grocery store when the ef 3 hit. We had absolutely no warning from management and i found out about it when i heard it roaring above. luckily there's a cliff behind the store and the tornado kinda ramped over it into the parking lot, across the highway flipping a car (the lady in the car died a few weeks later from the injuries), and proceeded to destroy a church rectory. a couple miles away it hit a neighborhood and demolished about 20 homes.
The reason so manyt people died was because it went through the middle of a major city where none of the houses had basements. I live in st. louis and we got hit with 2 tornadoes ( ef3, and ef4) in the past 8 months. Only one person died in both those because every house has a basement. I think weathermen are excellent at warning people and get so much shit when theyre wrong about wether it will snow.
Look at this. We have a video with no original audio, a shameless ad for some shyster law firm, and the guy's name is TeaParty2012...can it get any worse folks?
@thecyg12 Hey, you fucking idiot. Their not a "law firm" you stupid fucking progressive. They help people who have a mountain of tax debt ruining their lives. They change peoples lives for the better and have no negative reports with the BBB. So shut the fuck, stop stealing people's money with your desire for a welfare and warfare state and self examine your own shit.
@FatLibertarianInOkc Oh look, we have an internet tough guy over here! I love how you launch into a baseless tirade about me being on welfare and how I'm a progressive (both untrue.) Tell me then, why is there and ad for anything on this video? A video of content that the uploader doesn't even own?
I also read folks saying "he never gave tornado precautions." If you look at the full coverage of this jbbbrown is the channel name I think, you hear James Spann say repeatedly to be in the lowest part of your home or building, in the center, small room away from windows. Those sound like tornado precautions to me. Look, chasing storms in the plains and in Dixie Alley takes 2 different skill sets, they all did the best they could - but when facing an EF3-5, your best isn't always enough.
There are so many reasons it is much more difficult to chase in Alabama then flat ole' Oklahoma. They had video of this tornado 20-30 mins before it hit Tuscaloosa when it was in a very rural area. James Spann is the best in the country.. (I've been in Oklahoma a number of times, the coverage is boring)
abc 33/40 and our local stations did a great job covering these tornadoes. There were as many as 7 on the ground in our coverage area at 1 time and storm spotters watching them. We got lots of damage from strong straight line winds and some EF 1 to EF 2 tornadoes that morning and knocked communications which made it difficult to report everything. Some parts of our state is very poorly covered on good days with cell phone and radio coverage and the early storms made it worse.
If you check this television station's blog or even surf YouTube, you will see that they did have chasers (some of whom just volunteered and are not officially employed, just wanted to help) and caught several live camera shots of tornadoes - hard to do in this part of the country due to the topography. People in Oklahoma do not realize the challenges we face with tornadoes. It is somewhat rare for even the strong/violent tornadoes to be visible - usually wrapped in rain. Kudos to ABC 33/40.
TeaParty - Were they not getting reports from the stormchasers, law enforcement and general population during the outbreaks ? I'm not sure why the Weather Channel was not monitoring these reports to acknowledge tornadoes on the ground instead of the dopplar indicated rotation.
At 1:16 (when the new radar sweep went by) you can for sure tell that thing was gaining strengh and that hook echo becoming WELL defind. If that thing wasn't producing a tornado before that point, it sure was now
@TeaParty2012 the death toll is going to be so high because an EF-5 tornado went right through neighborhoods shredding 6000 homes, businesses, and apartment complexes. picture this going through Norman or stillwater. i was there so mind your own storms.
dude you have not clue about weather do you. One there were about 20 other super cells in Alabama all producing strong Tornadoes. I know for a fact there were spotters on that storm along with the other ones. Two I was watching this stream as well and I thought they did an amazing job with the amount of storm producing tornadoes in the broadcast area. Trust im a meteorology major and that isnt easy doing that. Finally if your complaining go get skywarn certified.
I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say I think you came in late on the coverage....not only did James have live towercam footage several minutes before the tornado tore into Tuscaloosa but he streamed live video from me at least 25 minutes before it reached town .....
@oldshue Right on to this, because I remember Mr. Spann specifically telling people in T-town when they got the tornado on sky cam that he told them you should have been in your safe areas about 20 mins ago. So he told us about 20 mins before this thing it us !!!! I dont know about this Oklahoma guy, but I wouldnt trade our James Spann, John Oldshue, Mark Prater, and Jason Simpson for any other meterologist ......
first off I'm not a amateur and I do know my facts all of them and I run my own storm research team & as for tornado going thru the city i live a have had 7 the F5 that went thru N, Moore kill 10 people and The F4 that went just 1/2 mile south of the F5 path in 2003 did not kill any as for the rest of the tornadoes that have came thru Moore, OK,, bottom line is the TV stations In Alabama could have did a much better Job and it not like this the 1st F5 to hit AL,
To be fair to them, they had up to 13 different supercells putting down strong/violent tornadoes at or around the same time the storm was approaching Tuscaloosa, and some of these killed nearly as many people (NE Alabama looks like a storm went through Hacklesburg into Limestone County, EF5, 30-50 people dead, maybe more). They are responsible for warnings for the entire viewing area, not just Tuscaloosa, and not just Tuscaloosa got nailed on the 27th.
ABC 3340s own John Oldshue captured the tornado 30 miles south of Tuscaloosa (source: ABC 3340 website with video). In fact, Spann mentioned that during his coverage. Honestly you could have a million spotters, but that doesn't protect people. The death toll is so high because of where it went and the intensity. Of course there will be some among the dead who ignored the warning. its unfortunate. But given the destruction, unless you had a basement.survival becomes difficult to impossible.
man I Agree with you 100% and no he's not a brutal man. and no we are not spoiled by Gary England here in Oklahoma. you know only 1/3 of the people in Oklahoma have a basement and about 1/5 of us have a tornado shelter.. what i would like to know is why did the weather men in AL, never say the tornado Tornado Precautions..
You're spoiled in Oklahoma because it's way easier to spot tornadoes there. When your state is hilly and heavily forested and most of your tornadoes come with a heavy rain shroud, spotters just aren't much use. That's why we hit the basement in Alabama whenever the sirens come on and the radar shows there might be a tornado near us, regardless of whether any spotter can confirm that there's one on the ground. Lack of spotters had nothing to do with the death toll on Wednesday, as you claim.
there has been a very terrible tornado that stayed on the ground for 40 minutes and has devastated both Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. The damage was as widespread as a hurricane. They will be devastated for years to come. God help them. No one will be able to live in those areas for the time being. I saw on the television this afternoon that 77 people died and it isnt done yet
@IndependentStorm No they can't. Its really unbelieveable how many tornado outbreaks had happened just in April. I guess even more shocking is how many PDS tornado watches had been issued. The NWS rarely issues those and I can think at least 5 that have gotten issued so far and the season isn't nearly over
I completely understand your worry. I'm a trained storm spotter so I understand alot about severe storms and I'd be very shocked if it stays tornadic when it reaches you. But with this incredible tornado outbreak, who knows.. This is a unpresidented outbreak and their saying it may be a record tornado outbreak. I don't know who pissed mother nature off, but she's pissed!!! lol
I hope everyone made it out of the tornado okay. I'm not from Tuscaloosa Alabama but when I heard it was gonna get it, I went onto a tuscaloosa news website and watched it roll in. It was huge! Thank God it didn't hit the downtown area, probaby alot more damage and injuries had it done so.
I don't live in the area, but I was watching the Weather Channel, and it passed about 4 miles north of Birmingham. Still the damage reports are absolutely incredible.
@arohn2007 Hope so. Last week a super cell passed over my house and took out a few things. Just got them fixed.... and now this. lol thanks for the reply
@F760 it was the scariest twister i ever saw that tore right through the city demolishing everything within a half mile radius. i was the last student to make it underground just ten minutes before it suddenly hit the university.
@amywood71605 Their saying it could've been a EF3, EF4 or even EF5. They won't know for sure until the national weather sevice looks at the damage. I'm thinking its gonna be a EF4 at least though
@amywood71605 My brother lives in Tuscaloosa and he told me it was the worst thing you could imagine and worse than that.. he said it completely flattened tons of houses around him and that the mall he goes to was completely gone on 1 side... he cant explain it completely because it was so bad.
I watched the complete coverage. They had video of the tornado as it was forming live. Their camera then lost power. That is why you did not see them with video in the 5 minutes out of the 24+ hours of coverage they had of the storms. We are spoiled to have James Spann. He is the best in the world, including Oklahoma.
gointoau 1 day ago
Spann is AWESOME, Gary is great too. I worked at WCFT 33 in Tuscaloosa while Spann was on Channel 6 still back in the 90s. These storms in AL, MS, TN, AR, LA, and GA are absolute BEASTS. Just a powerful as the biggest Woodward, OK 1947, OKC 1999, Andover 1991, etc.. you have but they are almost always much harder to spot, happen very often in hours of darkness (although May 3 had some that were very destructive after dark in OK and KS), etc.. I think the Deep South wants the respect it deserves!
ChristopherSaindon 1 month ago
This is absolutely a JOKE. Are you kidding me? I have watched the tornado watch and warning grow and expand, know the process COMPLETELY from Fawbush and Miller on, know EVERYTHING you do and probably much more, and some of these people have a legitimate beef here. March 3, 1966, April 8, 1998, April 3, 1974, April 4, 1977, April 27, 2011 just a few I can rattle-out in my sleep -- ALL days saw massive F5s in MS or AL that would make a "chaser" from KS, OK, TX soil themselves and cry >:(
ChristopherSaindon 1 month ago
well, when u have multiple EF 3's, 4's ,and 5's on the ground all at once, it can overwhelm even the best outlets. Nobodies fault, it was a once in a generation type of outbreak. And as you said, OK and texas usually get the storms like we had that day, not us. I dare say even those states would have had trouble keeping up with it. It surpassed the super outbreak of 1974, and thats saying something.
greenktoo 1 month ago
Holy crapola
WetPooooopie 1 month ago
that was just me being angry at my camera because I was "storm chasing", but, not in Oklahoma, and I NEVER will, because there is NO such this as storm CHASING in Oklahoma,.....only storm interception, and, lazy fucks who can't see their own dicks that are afraid to come to the south where niggers and white trash get tossed around like a dream video for you, what the fuck is your problem fuck face.
mrdoitup78 1 month ago
Dude, i thought i told dipshit faggots like you that are drops outs and fail at everything in life, INCLUDING this REALLY shitty POOR quality video, I mean AUDIO, with NO VIDEO, and you have NO idea how SHITTY this sounds on you tube,
You are a fucking idiot,
please, if you want to ACT like a FAG, great, you already did that, but if you want to BE a FAG, which you are, COMPRESS your FUCKING LAME VIDEOS so the SOUND LEVEL is CONSISTENT.
FAGGOT
mrdoitup78 1 month ago
On behalf of all of the storm spotter "on the ground" in America, kiss our asses.
--Austin--
WhelenVTXR2 2 months ago
@WhelenVTXR2 ...As a storm spotter in MS, I agree. By the way, just because we're from the south and might talk slow doesn't mean we're stupid! Feel free to kiss this!
93dalek 1 week ago
On behalf of the storm spotters "on the ground" of America. Kiss our ass.
--Austin--
WhelenVTXR2 2 months ago
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ad5kl 2 months ago
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ad5kl 2 months ago
BBOORRIINNGG!!!
31MissLittle 2 months ago
@TeaParty2012 You're right! Having spotters and helicopters does help save lives during severe weather events. But something you should think about, is that here in the southeast, we have very hilly terrain and lots of trees. So, this makes spotting very difficult in this area. Also, the morning of the April 27th storms , we had very strong winds (60-80mph) and tornadoes. A LOT of people were with out power and could not get information about the storms.
2013bigben 2 months ago
SPAM MAN!
I LIVE IN GADSDEN ALABAMA!
GoEmmaSansomRebels 2 months ago
Who the hell are you to talk over one of the most eminent meteorologists of our time? Maybe if you shut up you would know he was warning people in specific areas that the storm was heading there way
niselat 3 months ago
NWS should change their watches? NWS issued a PDS Tornado Watch at 1:45 CDT that day. It also included the words "tornado outbreak situation". I think those are some scary words. What do you want? And there were a shitload of deaths because large, exceptionally violent wedge tornadoes slammed into densely populated areas, in a region many people do not have basements. I agree with the comment on spotting this region. Hilly with tons of trees...you often cannot see shit from the ground.
drgonzo767 3 months ago
I just happened to run across this video. We could have had spotters at every mile and it wouldn't have helped those of us who lost their power at about 4:30 that morning when the first line rolled through. I think I saw where the number was around 250,000 homes without a way to get the information.
kperk014 4 months ago
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Just wondering if anyone knew, if a tornado came through our town where would my family hide? we don't have a basement, or cellar of any type, we have a closet with a window in the same room and a hallway surrounded by our bedroom doors and bathroom door, what place would be more safe?
runescapereppjt95 4 months ago
@alastormspotter Remember, this is Dixie Alley you are talking about. This isn't tornado alley. There is a very distinct difference between the two: Dixie Alley is covered with trees which makes it harder to chase there. But like you said, in tornado alley it is a lot easier to see the tornado. During the Tuscaloosa tornado, even the Storm Riders couldn't spot so think about it.
TRatliff05 4 months ago
@TeaParty2012 From a person that actually worked this event in a TV weather office in Birmingham... "driving" the radar for the coverage on FOX 6 WBRC that day... you REALLY need to come over here for a day and see the terrain we deal with, and the rain-wrapped nature of these storms here in Alabama... before you criticize. We do NOT deal with the same favorable conditions for live spotting and video streaming here as you are used to in Oklahoma. You can't do what isn't possible!
fgossage 4 months ago
@fgossage And yet you still did a fantastic job :-) Thank God some were visible. Some were absolutely unbelievable in their massive size and phenominal ground speed. Tanner and Capshaw has the one from Channel 48 (I think) one-mile plus wide moving 60 at the VERY least.
ChristopherSaindon 1 month ago
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Hi , I am Chuck from Tullahoma , Tn. I made a You-tube video for a late mothers day gift after we lost 2 friends in Phil Cambell April 2011. My family is from Russiville Ala. In 2010 , I had a suggestion documented on how to PREVENT a tornado from touching the ground by a method that had not been thought of before. My approach is totally out of the box. When the Wright brothers wanted to fly for the 1st time, They were not trying to built an 747 airliner. STOPPING A TORNADO - You tube video
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Super314159265358 6 months ago
My point is that had the tornado hit our store like it did the church rectory there coulda been a hundered people dead including myself and two close family members all because management didn't want to disturb business. Those are the types of reasons people die in tornadoes. The reason no one was talking about it is because you live like 600 miles away. there are broadcasts from twc and local tuscaloosa channels on youtube.
mcmcerson 7 months ago
I was working on new years eve at a grocery store when the ef 3 hit. We had absolutely no warning from management and i found out about it when i heard it roaring above. luckily there's a cliff behind the store and the tornado kinda ramped over it into the parking lot, across the highway flipping a car (the lady in the car died a few weeks later from the injuries), and proceeded to destroy a church rectory. a couple miles away it hit a neighborhood and demolished about 20 homes.
mcmcerson 7 months ago
The reason so manyt people died was because it went through the middle of a major city where none of the houses had basements. I live in st. louis and we got hit with 2 tornadoes ( ef3, and ef4) in the past 8 months. Only one person died in both those because every house has a basement. I think weathermen are excellent at warning people and get so much shit when theyre wrong about wether it will snow.
mcmcerson 7 months ago
Look at this. We have a video with no original audio, a shameless ad for some shyster law firm, and the guy's name is TeaParty2012...can it get any worse folks?
thecyg12 7 months ago
@thecyg12 Hey, you fucking idiot. Their not a "law firm" you stupid fucking progressive. They help people who have a mountain of tax debt ruining their lives. They change peoples lives for the better and have no negative reports with the BBB. So shut the fuck, stop stealing people's money with your desire for a welfare and warfare state and self examine your own shit.
FatLibertarianInOkc 7 months ago
@FatLibertarianInOkc Oh look, we have an internet tough guy over here! I love how you launch into a baseless tirade about me being on welfare and how I'm a progressive (both untrue.) Tell me then, why is there and ad for anything on this video? A video of content that the uploader doesn't even own?
thecyg12 6 months ago
I also read folks saying "he never gave tornado precautions." If you look at the full coverage of this jbbbrown is the channel name I think, you hear James Spann say repeatedly to be in the lowest part of your home or building, in the center, small room away from windows. Those sound like tornado precautions to me. Look, chasing storms in the plains and in Dixie Alley takes 2 different skill sets, they all did the best they could - but when facing an EF3-5, your best isn't always enough.
wildjoker12000 8 months ago
There are so many reasons it is much more difficult to chase in Alabama then flat ole' Oklahoma. They had video of this tornado 20-30 mins before it hit Tuscaloosa when it was in a very rural area. James Spann is the best in the country.. (I've been in Oklahoma a number of times, the coverage is boring)
DoYouLikeThatDaddy 8 months ago
abc 33/40 and our local stations did a great job covering these tornadoes. There were as many as 7 on the ground in our coverage area at 1 time and storm spotters watching them. We got lots of damage from strong straight line winds and some EF 1 to EF 2 tornadoes that morning and knocked communications which made it difficult to report everything. Some parts of our state is very poorly covered on good days with cell phone and radio coverage and the early storms made it worse.
DPickett49ers 9 months ago
If you check this television station's blog or even surf YouTube, you will see that they did have chasers (some of whom just volunteered and are not officially employed, just wanted to help) and caught several live camera shots of tornadoes - hard to do in this part of the country due to the topography. People in Oklahoma do not realize the challenges we face with tornadoes. It is somewhat rare for even the strong/violent tornadoes to be visible - usually wrapped in rain. Kudos to ABC 33/40.
MrYankHoe 9 months ago
TeaParty - Were they not getting reports from the stormchasers, law enforcement and general population during the outbreaks ? I'm not sure why the Weather Channel was not monitoring these reports to acknowledge tornadoes on the ground instead of the dopplar indicated rotation.
GOODY61 9 months ago
At 1:16 (when the new radar sweep went by) you can for sure tell that thing was gaining strengh and that hook echo becoming WELL defind. If that thing wasn't producing a tornado before that point, it sure was now
arohn2007 9 months ago
@TeaParty2012 the death toll is going to be so high because an EF-5 tornado went right through neighborhoods shredding 6000 homes, businesses, and apartment complexes. picture this going through Norman or stillwater. i was there so mind your own storms.
mdawwg17 9 months ago
dude you have not clue about weather do you. One there were about 20 other super cells in Alabama all producing strong Tornadoes. I know for a fact there were spotters on that storm along with the other ones. Two I was watching this stream as well and I thought they did an amazing job with the amount of storm producing tornadoes in the broadcast area. Trust im a meteorology major and that isnt easy doing that. Finally if your complaining go get skywarn certified.
Kreature100 10 months ago
I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say I think you came in late on the coverage....not only did James have live towercam footage several minutes before the tornado tore into Tuscaloosa but he streamed live video from me at least 25 minutes before it reached town .....
oldshue 10 months ago 2
@oldshue Right on to this, because I remember Mr. Spann specifically telling people in T-town when they got the tornado on sky cam that he told them you should have been in your safe areas about 20 mins ago. So he told us about 20 mins before this thing it us !!!! I dont know about this Oklahoma guy, but I wouldnt trade our James Spann, John Oldshue, Mark Prater, and Jason Simpson for any other meterologist ......
watchingme215 9 months ago
first off I'm not a amateur and I do know my facts all of them and I run my own storm research team & as for tornado going thru the city i live a have had 7 the F5 that went thru N, Moore kill 10 people and The F4 that went just 1/2 mile south of the F5 path in 2003 did not kill any as for the rest of the tornadoes that have came thru Moore, OK,, bottom line is the TV stations In Alabama could have did a much better Job and it not like this the 1st F5 to hit AL,
Lawrence,, from SVRHD.com
LAWZCON91HD 10 months ago
To be fair to them, they had up to 13 different supercells putting down strong/violent tornadoes at or around the same time the storm was approaching Tuscaloosa, and some of these killed nearly as many people (NE Alabama looks like a storm went through Hacklesburg into Limestone County, EF5, 30-50 people dead, maybe more). They are responsible for warnings for the entire viewing area, not just Tuscaloosa, and not just Tuscaloosa got nailed on the 27th.
GeneralBT 10 months ago
ABC 3340s own John Oldshue captured the tornado 30 miles south of Tuscaloosa (source: ABC 3340 website with video). In fact, Spann mentioned that during his coverage. Honestly you could have a million spotters, but that doesn't protect people. The death toll is so high because of where it went and the intensity. Of course there will be some among the dead who ignored the warning. its unfortunate. But given the destruction, unless you had a basement.survival becomes difficult to impossible.
metalera1983 10 months ago
Oh, you mean the 30+ spotters on the ground throughout the state? Shut your piehole unless you know facts, amateur.
BamaFootballCentral 10 months ago
man I Agree with you 100% and no he's not a brutal man. and no we are not spoiled by Gary England here in Oklahoma. you know only 1/3 of the people in Oklahoma have a basement and about 1/5 of us have a tornado shelter.. what i would like to know is why did the weather men in AL, never say the tornado Tornado Precautions..
Lawrence from svrhd.com
LAWZCON91HD 10 months ago
The death toll is high because many people did not have basements. The tornado was so powerful that underground would have been the best place to go.
padude64 10 months ago
You're spoiled in Oklahoma because it's way easier to spot tornadoes there. When your state is hilly and heavily forested and most of your tornadoes come with a heavy rain shroud, spotters just aren't much use. That's why we hit the basement in Alabama whenever the sirens come on and the radar shows there might be a tornado near us, regardless of whether any spotter can confirm that there's one on the ground. Lack of spotters had nothing to do with the death toll on Wednesday, as you claim.
anAmishGuy 10 months ago
my thoughts and prayers to all who are affected by this
sonicscreamingblue 10 months ago
there has been a very terrible tornado that stayed on the ground for 40 minutes and has devastated both Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. The damage was as widespread as a hurricane. They will be devastated for years to come. God help them. No one will be able to live in those areas for the time being. I saw on the television this afternoon that 77 people died and it isnt done yet
jcextra 10 months ago
that is what she said! LOL!!!
wecuttrees 10 months ago
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Man, they can't get a break in the south. I'm praying for you guys
IndependentStorm 10 months ago
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IndependentStorm 10 months ago
@IndependentStorm No they can't. Its really unbelieveable how many tornado outbreaks had happened just in April. I guess even more shocking is how many PDS tornado watches had been issued. The NWS rarely issues those and I can think at least 5 that have gotten issued so far and the season isn't nearly over
arohn2007 10 months ago
I completely understand your worry. I'm a trained storm spotter so I understand alot about severe storms and I'd be very shocked if it stays tornadic when it reaches you. But with this incredible tornado outbreak, who knows.. This is a unpresidented outbreak and their saying it may be a record tornado outbreak. I don't know who pissed mother nature off, but she's pissed!!! lol
arohn2007 10 months ago
I hope everyone made it out of the tornado okay. I'm not from Tuscaloosa Alabama but when I heard it was gonna get it, I went onto a tuscaloosa news website and watched it roll in. It was huge! Thank God it didn't hit the downtown area, probaby alot more damage and injuries had it done so.
arohn2007 10 months ago
watching the weather channel here....VERY bad damage reports coming in from tuscaloosa....
amywood71605 10 months ago
@amywood71605 Same here. Unfortantely it could be EF4 or possibly EF5 damage. HOPEFULLY not for their sake
arohn2007 10 months ago
It coming for our direction.... its in downtown birmingham and i live 15 miles away
hhhannah98 10 months ago
@hhhannah98 so wtf are you doing on the goddamn interent you fucking idiot.
SlayerofFiction 10 months ago
@hhhannah98
I don't live in the area, but I was watching the Weather Channel, and it passed about 4 miles north of Birmingham. Still the damage reports are absolutely incredible.
vanni9283 10 months ago
I lived through that basterd!
MadGoth502 10 months ago
@MadGoth502 How was it? Heading right towards me @ 1AM. I'm not excited.
F760 10 months ago
@F760 You hopefully don't need to worry too much. I highly doubt it'll stay tornadic that long
arohn2007 10 months ago
@arohn2007 Hope so. Last week a super cell passed over my house and took out a few things. Just got them fixed.... and now this. lol thanks for the reply
F760 10 months ago
@F760 it was the scariest twister i ever saw that tore right through the city demolishing everything within a half mile radius. i was the last student to make it underground just ten minutes before it suddenly hit the university.
MadGoth502 10 months ago
@MadGoth502 How bad was it?? Watching the weather channel and it sounds so horrible....
amywood71605 10 months ago
@amywood71605 Their saying it could've been a EF3, EF4 or even EF5. They won't know for sure until the national weather sevice looks at the damage. I'm thinking its gonna be a EF4 at least though
arohn2007 10 months ago
@amywood71605 My brother lives in Tuscaloosa and he told me it was the worst thing you could imagine and worse than that.. he said it completely flattened tons of houses around him and that the mall he goes to was completely gone on 1 side... he cant explain it completely because it was so bad.
ADizezedCrow 10 months ago
@MadGoth502 Glad to hear your ok.
arohn2007 10 months ago