Carbon Hill, AL Tornado Coverage - 11/10/2002

On 11/10/2002 an F3 tornado moved through Fayette, Walker, and Winston counties in Alabama killing 4 and injuring 10 along its 44.3 mile path. This was part of the Veterans Day tornado outbreak which spawned over 10 tornadoes in Alabama and numerous tornadoes in other states. This is a video of live coverage of that storm by Huntsville television stations. This storm, for the most part, was not in the Huntsville DMA but meteorologists were paying close attention to it as it approached the viewing area. Footage is from WHNT, WAFF, and WAAY.
According to the NWS Birmingham, "The Carbon Hill Tornado was the first tornado of the evening. It began in Fayette County at 6:52 pm, about 5.6 miles north-northwest of the city of Fayette, and 2.8 miles west of US Highway 43. The tornado moved on a northeast track crossing US 43, State Route 129, and SR 13, and then moved into Walker County just southwest of Carbon Hill at 7:10 pm.
It then crossed the western and northern sections of Carbon Hill, downing trees and power lines and damaging many residential structures. Carbon Hill Elementary School was also heavily damaged. The tornado continued northeast, crossing SR5, and exited the county at SR 195. The two deaths associated with this tornado occurred just south of SR 195.
Entering Winston County at 7:31 pm, the tornado continued on a northeast path traveling across mostly sparsely populated areas of Bankhead National Forest and several fingers of Smith Lake. It crossed County Road 41 about 1.8 miles south of Arley and then crossed CR 12, finally lifting at 7:45 pm."
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[@InStereoWhereAvailable]

Thank you so much for uploading this classic tornado coverage! If you have any more vintage coverage from the Huntsville or Birmingham tv stations, please upload it! Thanks again!

[@ShamarDavis2017]

I've seen what Paul Barys at WRCB in Chattanooga had going on his viewing area that night. we may have another major severe weather outbreak on Wednesday in Missouri.

[@InStereoWhereAvailable]

You're absolutely right, Shamar. I'm quite amazed by that debris ball in the coverage.

[@ShamarDavis2017]

+Matthew Berfield they have already put out an enhanced risk for severe storms 3 days out and I wouldn't be shocked if that got raised higher than that in the coming days.

[@ShamarDavis2017]

I've got to watch whenever a surface low passes by the coast of my state. A high end EF2 tornado with 130 mph winds touched down in the middle of the night southwest of Charleston, SC back in September. The only way my National Weather Service office knew a tornado was on the ground was because a Debris Signature showed up on Correlation Coefficient. Then a week later, I see the worst flooding my state has ever seen and I've never heard a Civil Emergency Message for Dam Breaches before that or a Flash Flood Emergency for my county.

[@ItsWaffleTime]

Did anyone else find that automated voice with the local weather display strangely unsettling?

[@zacharycalgher3978]

This was 5 days before the 13th anniversary of the Huntsville AL F4 tornado on November 15th 1989

[@SigmaRho2922]

The interstate highway numbers and US highway numbers used on channel 19's radar screen and channel 31's radar screen (as well as the Comcast headend radar screen) are rendered in Peignot, and that's because those stations used an older version of the radar software compared to what channel 48 had at the time. Peignot is known to cause readability issues when used in weather radar software despite being popular in other uses.

[@tirmyta]

11:00 I don’t remember his name.

[@CentralALSirens]

Holy shit, JP Dice. Gosh, He's now serving for WBRC as a Chief Meteorologist for Fox 6 down in Birmingham, AL.

[@EquusStorm]

How much more of the 11/10/02 event do you have beyond what has been posted thus far? It was 'the' big tornado event in my neighborhood and one of the defining and shaping points of my interest in meteorology and I always wished I'd had the means to record it... though the power went out when the Carbon Hill tornado struck, about a mile away. Had to huddle around one of those ancient tiny battery powered TVs in the basement in the dark when the Saragossa tornado wiped out much of the area I grew up around.

[@nordicpawsproductions465]

Hey it's derpy! where's Rainbow Dash when you need her to stop these storms?

[@hunterlane6944]

I still remember that night 15 years ago

[@theweakestlink2278]

Haven't seen Dan Satterfield since the 90's when him and James Spann worked for channel 6.

[@samwolcott989]

Why was wzdx not one of the footage Pat simon was on coverage too

[@Juniortvspace]

WZDX aired WAAY newscasts until they got a news department in 2016

[@samWolcott-xh6lu]

Man I was a toddler that year I'm gonna be 21 I remember this was a bad storm

[@JustinHindman1988]

Debris ball back in 2002

[@samwolcott989]

1:46 Dan sounds like he's getting a little choked up a little I don't blame him there meteorologists always should have a heart sometimes

[@lennyven9938]

I miss dan :(

[@neonflashsparkotron5435]

LennyVen why did he leave? Did he die?

[@sallythemarooncat5401]

From what I know he moved to a different tv station

[@HappyQuailsLC]

Oh... TVS (tornado vortex signature)... I thought he was saying "TBS" and I was thinking, huh?

[@GravyHucker]

Ted Turner can tear some stuff up too.

[@anthonythompson6375]

is one of those meteorologist j.p dice

[@sallywag7439]

10:36 I rm that channel ;)

[@anthrax0349]

Why cut and randomly jump into different stations?

[@samwolcott989]

15:00 you can see the radar on jps bald spot hahah