Tornado Emergency - LARGE Tornado Headed Through Tuscaloosa Alabama

So some people did not like my commentary. Well, as someone who's seen the history of tornado prediction evolve here in Oklahoma, the reason I was frustrated was because I knew that the death toll would be high and the reason is because they had nobody on the ground to CONFIRM a tornado for the time I was watching that Ustream.

The Weather Channel also did not know. Nobody seemed to know if a tornado was on the ground at a time when an EF5/EF4 WAS ON THE GROUND. These days, that astounds me. Especially when the National Weather Service had warned about long-track, and large tornadoes earlier. All they had was doppler/radar indicated which does not scare people, unfortunately.

But the not knowing leads to people just ignoring the tornado sirens and not fully understanding what they need to do. If they see a giant tornado on TV - it scares people into taking serious cover. It's incredibly important to saving lives. So everything I said was just frustration because I knew lives were in danger. Eventually they did catch it on tower cam. Just not during this video.

I think the national weather service needs to change their tornado watches to compensate for these kinds of days. There will be studies done into why there were so many deaths.

HERE'S WHAT I WROTE WHEN I POSTED THIS:

Bad day in Alabama. Wedge and very large tornado apparently headed toward Tuscaloosa Alabama. Today, in this area there will be numerous tornadoes and they will be large. This could turn out to be the largest tornado outbreak for April, ever.

http://www.weather.gov/view/national.php?prodtype=tornado

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[gointoau]

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.

[93dalek]

@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!

[ChristopherSaindon]

@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]

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]

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 >:(

[greenktoo]

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.

[WetPooooopie]

Holy crapola

[mrdoitup78]

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]

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

[WhelenVTXR2]

On behalf of all of the storm spotter "on the ground" in America, kiss our asses.

--Austin--