@@KR_Diecasts As a resident of a GA county that borders AL, I follow both Jason and James in order to know what's coming our way, because the Atlanta TV stations don't get interested in storms until they cross the state line and that doesn't give us enough lead time.
@@cllewis1 WSB did a great job though on Thursday Night and Early Friday. I posted something from them. I was watching them as it hit Newnan, but didn't get to screen record that part. I'm kind of disappointed that I didn't start watching WSB sooner, much less screen recording it..........
I wanted to know exactly when he realized his wife was in danger, so I looked up where he lives. At about 2:01:30 you can hear he hesitates in what he is saying.. At 2:06:12 where he is pointing with his finger is where he lives, he texts his wife at 2:07:04 the first time, and when his fist is on the wall at 2:07:40 is when it is at his house. I think his wife replies back to him at 2:09:50 when he sighs, a sigh of relief. I work with parcel maps a lot for work and if you just look up the state, county and parcel map, most maps allow you to search by the landowner.
I will remember this day forever. I was sitting at work when we got the warning that the tornado at 1:28:10 was coming right for us. Those of us with shelters at home left for home as fast as we could, not a good idea but there was nowhere safe to go at work. I only live eight minutes from work but as I turned into my driveway, James Spann on the radio was already telling us to get off the roads and leaves were flying around me. They said the name of my neighborhood on TV. I heard the noise of the tornado but I didn't think it hit us until I emerged from my house and trees, limbs, pieces of roofs, etc. were everywhere. We had no power for the rest of the day. I work in insurance claims and the following day was like nothing I'd seen before or since.
A large violent tornado is zeroing in on his house with his wife and he seamlessly texts his wife and doesn't miss a beat. This is the most legendary tornado coverage ever.
@@lordmatthewanunnahybrid1356 yes! I didn't realize anything happened until he returned after going off screen for a bit and said that the tornado hit his house but his wife was ok!
James Spann, what can I say? You’re considered a true meteorological legend who once again stayed on the air for so long , keeping the residents of Alabama safe. I live in N.C. but he is definitely well heard of everywhere and a lot of people owe their lives to you ,James!! I don’t know of many meteorologists who are as dedicated as you are so many thanks to you by so many and GOD BLESS YOU James. There aren’t enough words to express the gratitude by many to you .
With his own Kin in the path of the storm, James doesn't miss a beat. Keeps on going even though his wife and home were affected. Has to be every weatherman's worst nightmare. What a legend!
If you have not seen the coverage of April 27, 2011, go look at I believe it's the morning storms go through Holly Pond, the hometown of Jason Simpson's family. The emotion in his voice brought tears to my eyes. Makes you realize these are real people losing their homes and lives.
@@chrisweaver6187 I've watched the 04/27/11 footage several times. You can definitely tell when Jason 's family is under the gun. What got me was when James' voice broke when he was speaking to Walt Maddox about the university.
I think 2011 as well as Jasper in 1974 was more traumatic for him as he was able to talk about it on his weatherbrains episode last night. Vs with 2011 he couldn't talk about it for at least 6 months @nd the stuff he saw in Jasper in 1974 he said he doesn't want to ever talk about so yeah
I don't even live anywhere near tornado alley (Maine) and I can still listen to this guy talk for hours and cover these events. Don't know what it is about his presentation and delivery but he makes these live trackings incredibly interesting to watch. This station and it's viewers are really blessed to have this guy covering these events.
I remember one Spann-ism from January 23, 2012: "That thing is tighter than a tick's fanny". I know it was a serious situation, but that one cracked me up lol!
You know, these videos are great to have on in the backround while I work the Night Shift. And It's also nice. Soothing, really to have James Spann and company to lullaby me while I have a Nap. Hope everyone stays safe in Alabama during the Tornado Season.
James, your courage and wisdom is not lost on anyone. You are a hero to all. You've saved countless lives over the years and have educated thousands. Thank you sir for everything. You will definitely go down as one of the greats in the books next to Dr fugita and Dr Forbes.
James saying a tornado hitting any particular house is extremely low, odds wise. That is heartbreaking given how things turned out. Not wrong, just heartbreaking. James got gut punched by those same oddds he talked about, and by the same token somebody else got majorly lucky. James is a weather legend really. Every region has theirs. Some transcend regions. James is known of as far afield as Europe, Russia, Japan. I'd argue James is a globally known weather legend thanks to streams and the 33/40 channel uploading things
Damn you can see the exact moment he reads the text about his wife and home. He takes that deep breath. Right at the 2 hour and ten minute mark. This man is a legend. Best in the country.
When that tornado hit james spanns house, it became personal for him .. but he kept on going .. not sure how he done it.. hopefully he does an interview about what he was thinking when this happend
I was at work right off hwy 119 in Greystone and I literally watch the tornado go right by my building. It was crazy. I took a really cool picture of it and tried to post it on the 33/40 website but it wouldn't go thru. I'll never forget that day. We had James on the whole time and he helped get us through it. I hate that his house got hit.
At 1:21:25, that "Shelby County label is incorrect. That is on Morgan Road near I-459, right near where I live. They are driving down into Shelby County towards Helena.
Man.... If there is a GOAT status 4 meteorologists, James Spann has his on lock... U know its kinda messed up when he purposely cracks at himself when he says 'if u have friends or family in the polygons call them & say James Spann has got his jacket off & his suspenders on you need 2 take cover.... He so loves the people of his state & region, continually hammering home the importance of taking the warnings & precautions seriously & respecting the radar as well as the live pictures, the true he knows how 2 honor the lives of those who sadly didn't make it during the 2011 outbreak as well as the survivors... he'll 4ever keep saving lives, a true testament of his character..... 🙌
His teammate Taylor brought it when he needed 2 step away & check on his wife, truly cant understate having people with u that u trust on your weather team 2 have your back.....
the most astounding part of this all, is how much of the area he has memorized, just all places and structures that he knows, accurately describing where businesses are to better give an understanding to people where the storm is. just wow.
@@peachxtaehyung the problem with the 33/40 website is there's no way to get it to play on the TV. I spent over half an hour trying to figure out different ways to get it to stream on the TV. It would stream to devices like the hub, but not on bigger screeens. And not everyone is on Facebook or social media. I agree, in severe situations, making it more easily visible would be beneficial, but how to make that happen, I don't know.
@@sierratrilogy I was in the same boat as you as I wanted to stream it on the big screen in the living room. I used the built-in browser on my Firestick (I think it's named silk?) and I have also used the Firefox app for Firestick. It did an OK job, the live-stream video size matched the screen size of my TV so it fit the frame well, but it was a bit laggy at times. All things aside, I would think ABC 33/40 would have an app for firestick (I don't know what you use) at the least. My local NC news station has a native app to live stream the weather, surprised they don't. Best of luck with this in the future.
For some reason the video leaves out the tornado warnings that happened I believe around 9pm in Chilton and Coosa counties near Lake Mitchell, EF2 damage surveyed by the NWS. And then later more EF2 damage in Clay and Randolph counties before moving into Georgia where it exploded into EF4 damage (which would be covered by the Atlanta stations of course).
I live in central Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains so we don’t get a lot of tornadoes. By the time they make it over the mountains they’ve weakened from raining themselves out with the cooler temperatures in the higher altitudes but about a month or so ago we had a scary (scary by VA standards) day where I was woken up at 7am by my phone for a tornado warning. Being a bit of a weather nerd myself I have Radar Omega and had seen that we were in a 5% tornado risk (again, scary by Virginia standards) so before I went to sleep the night before, I put a bag together with some water, my battery pack for my phone, a pair of clothes, my laptop for school, and a couple other necessities and set out my cat’s crate and my boots just in case (note: helmet was already downstairs). When I was woken up by that warning, I grabbed my cat before she could realize I had picked her up and shoved her in her crate, slipped on my boots, grabbed my backpack, woke up my grandfather, and went downstairs to our tornado safe spot. My brain was in “shelter now, ask questions later” mode of course. The circulation ended up being a short lived EF2 damaging 15 structures and causing 2 injuries a county over and we weren’t even in the polygon yet, we were in line to be in the next one had the warning been continued. We then went back upstairs and tuned in to our local news. All this to say, my cat gave me the dirtiest look when she heard the phones go off in this coverage because she didn’t enjoy being scooped up and shoved in her crate 😅
I agree with that too. It was very violent looking tornadoes on the sky cam by itself. Multiple angles of that thing was terrifying, but not as violent looking as the sky cam.
There are captions available on YT. I'm currently watching this with them on. I think depending on *how* you're watching it, the option may or may not be available. To speak to them bot doing captions, I had read somewhere that, if I'm not mistaken, as a result of the Tuscaloosa tornado, captions were made mandatory in severe wx situations. I know they do them in Oklahoma. I'll try to find where I read that.
At 1:27:13, he says you might hear the sirens but most people don't in their homes. Right when he said that, we heard them, in our basement, I kid you not! I don't agree with him 100% about the warning sirens. I do agree that they should not be depended on. People who think "I don't need a NOAA Weather Radio, we have sirens out here", sure, people have got to stop thinking that and taking for granted that they will hear one. On the other hand, you can't just assume that almost nobody will hear the sirens if they are indoors. They reach a 'limited number of people' and that's it. Well, they probably reach a few more people than that.
Hes talking about like when its 4 in the morning or if you have walls made of layers of brick and the wind on the window makes it hard to hear them and plus some people in Alabama are deaf ,not saying that you are And also some places don't even have any sirens
WSR-57 and maybe a WSR-74. The WSR-57 was like a military-surplus leftover from WWII. There was a little bit of refinement on them for weather, but not much. The 74 was a bit better but still not close to the WSR-88 of today. Plotted storm tracks with a grease pencil and paper maps overlaid on the round screen. I've seen son YT videos where people were using them before, and there is also something on the Brent/Centerville tornado in 1973 that ran over the NWS radar there.
@@GravyHucker If you really want to see a WSR-57 and Tornadoes search for the 1965 Twin Cities Tornadoes. The NWS Chanhassen digitized the radar scans from that night and you can see how an old WSR-57 looked.
@@GravyHucker That is considered one of Minnesota’s seminal weather events and there is no TV coverage on You Tube BUT there is 5+ hours of radio coverage from WCCO from that night. Many people say the WCCO Radio coverage helped to save many lives. Thirteen people were killed but it is said that the death toll would have been much higher without WCCO radio. It was also the first time in the Twin Cities that civil defense sirens were used for weather. In those days there were a lot more sirens due to the Cold War.
@@paulsonj72 I appreciate the history lesson. I'm far more familiar with severe weather in the Southern Plains and Southeast US, for some reason I have never heard much about tornadoes from places like Minnesota, Michigan, North Dakota, etc. Maybe ignorance on my part, maybe it's just not as talked about? Seeing how the warning process has changed over the years along with detection and forecasting is almost as interesting as the events to me. Again, I thank you.
Thanks James it was a scary afternoon I went to Calera cause I had to go o Birmingham for an MRI and when I dove up 65 the house on the side of the inerstate was damage with a car flipped in the house please listen to James when he says get in your safe place and get a helmet and closed toed shoes and one thing James I learned from another meteorologist is we need whistles or airborne in our safe place because if we get stuck we need to get first responders to us so we blow the whistle
I know it's very serious. And I appreciate your safety oriented nature. But I fall asleep listening to weather coverage. I'm not all that sleepy after hearing a velocity couplet referred to as "hanging in there like a hair on a biscuit" lmao. You're a wonderful human, Mr. Spann.
It's interesting that the same general area in the tornado warning polygon in south Jefferson and north Shelby had epic flash flooding last Wednesday night.
In major markets a log radio stations will simulcast TV coverage. When I worked in radio one summer we had three warnings in one week and since we were small market resell we did was simulcast on the AM and FM stations. But we got a lot of good press for how we handled everything that week.
Tornadoes are rare in Alabama during the summer. The storm track is too far north, and the wind fields aloft are weak. We do have convective pop up thunderstorms that are isolated or scattered hit and miss, but they don't spawn tornadoes. That can put out a lot of cloud to ground lightning that's very dangerous in itself though. It's November as I'm typing this and we're in our "Second tornado season", as this time of year of often referred to.
14 حقيقة اعصار التورنادوا : هو في الاساس رباني ومن غضب الله الجبار ومن شدته انه اذا مر على نهر شقه نصفين ورفع قاعه الطيني وذر ترابه في الهواء وكذلك يقتلع البنايات والبيوت والاشجار ومن ثم رميها في مكان بعيد مهما كانت ثقيلة وعظيمة ويحمل الجسور والقناطر والخزانات الكبيرة ويدور بها وكانها عود ثقاب ويلفها كالمروحة من شدة قوته العنيفة ويحمل معه الحيوان والانسان الى عنان السماء ثم يلفظه خارج الغلاف الجوي او الكرة الارضية وكانها عملية تفريغ نحو الفضاء الخارجي مما يتسبب بخسائر مادية جسيمة وهائلة تقدر بمئات المليارات من الدولارات وهذا غيظ من فيض وهذا بعض ما يجري في امريكا ان الذين كذبوا باياتنا واستكبروا عنها لا تفتح لهم ابواب السماء ولا يدخلون الجنة حتى يلج الجمل في سم الخياط ... اوكل الله جل في علاه بكل شئ ملكا : فهناك ملك الجبال وملك البحار وملك السحاب وملك الرياح وباستطاعته ان يامرها بما يريد ان زلزلوا او احرقوا او دمروا او حطموا او اغرقوا فينتقم الله ممن يشاء ولا يستطيع اي مخلوق في هذا الكون منع قضاءه جل وعلا ويقال ان صوت الرعد حسبما ورد في الاثر انه صوت الملك الذي يزجر به السحاب ويسوقه حيث يشاء بامر الله عز وجل ... والله اعلم قال تعالى ( وما تاتيهم من آية من آيات ربهم الا كانوا عنها معرضين ) وقال تعالى ( فأرسلنا عليهم الطوفان والجراد والقمل والضفادع والدم ... ) وقال تعالى ( وان يروا كسفا من السماء ساقطا يقولوا سحاب مركوم ) وقال تعالى ( فلما راوه عارضا مستقبل اوديتهم قالوا هذا عارض ممطرنا بل هو مااستعجلتم به ريح فيها عذاب اليم ) وقال تعالى ( ولو شئنا لرفعناه بها ولكنه أخلد إلى الأرض واتبع هواه فمثله كمثل الكلب إن تحمل عليه يلهث أو تتركه يلهث ذلك مثل القوم الذين كذبوا بآياتنا فاقصص القصص لعلهم يتفكرون ) وقال تعالى ( مثل الذين حملوا التوراة ثم لم يحملوها كمثل الحمار يحمل اسفارا بئس مثل القوم الذين كذبوا بآيات الله والله لا يهدي القوم الظالمين ) وقال تعالى ( قل ياأهل الكتاب لستم على شيء حتى تقيموا التوراة والإنجيل وما أنزل إليكم من ربكم وليزيدن كثيرا منهم ما أنزل إليك من ربك طغيانا وكفرا فلا تأس على القوم الكافرين ) يَـأَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ رَسُولُنَا يُبَيِّنُ لَكُمْ كَثِيراً مِّمَّا كُنتُمْ تُخْفُونَ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَيَعْفُواْ عَن كَثِيرٍ قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ مِّنَ اللَّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ يَهْدِي بِهِ اللَّهُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوَانَهُ سُبُلَ السَّلامِ وَيُخْرِجُهُمْ مِّنِ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَيَهْدِيهِمْ إِلَى صِراطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ وهذا ما سيحدث لامريكا كثيرا وستدفع الثمن باهضا كل شئ انتهى ولا يستطيعون فعل اي شئ اللهم عليك بهم فانهم لا يعجزونك
No, it's not a generational tornado outbreak. Spann gets that question every time there's a higher end severe weather and tornado threat. "Will this be like April 27, 2011?" He doesn't like to answer that question. How he does is he says, no it won't, that was a generational event, but if a tornado comes down your street and hits your house, that's your April 27, 2011. We've had deadly severe weather and tornadic events without it being a generational event. November 15, 1989, Huntsville, 21 deaths, March 27, 1994, when one hit the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, killing 20 people, April 8, 1998, Oak Grove to Pratt City, 32 people in Jefferson County died, plus 2 more in St. Clair County. December 16, 2000, 11 people dead in the southern part of Tuscaloosa. Those are some examples of non-generational tornadic events that still caused destruction and loss of life.
The people that die is just like everybody else they need to realise when you hear about a tornado outbreak in your area you better believe you gonna see a tornado 100% It upset me we are professionals reporting every warning and yet people die because they don't pay attention
JAMES SPANN WE HAVE NOAA WEATHER RADIO 📻 AND I ALREADY GOT MY NOAA WEATHER RADIO 📻 CHARGE AND MY PHONE 📱 CHARGE BUY ME RIGHT NOW WATCHING THE TORNADO Coverage FROM Cudahy Wisconsin right now
James Spann is a legend. There’s nothing anyone can say that will change my mind.
i've seen him wrestle a tornado or two.
Whatever happened to Jason?
@@jaredpatterson1701 he is now the chief meteorologist at WHNT in Huntsville Alabama
@@KR_Diecasts As a resident of a GA county that borders AL, I follow both Jason and James in order to know what's coming our way, because the Atlanta TV stations don't get interested in storms until they cross the state line and that doesn't give us enough lead time.
@@cllewis1 WSB did a great job though on Thursday Night and Early Friday. I posted something from them. I was watching them as it hit Newnan, but didn't get to screen record that part. I'm kind of disappointed that I didn't start watching WSB sooner, much less screen recording it..........
We need “respect the polygon” merch for James. He’s such a legend
I wanted to know exactly when he realized his wife was in danger, so I looked up where he lives. At about 2:01:30 you can hear he hesitates in what he is saying.. At 2:06:12 where he is pointing with his finger is where he lives, he texts his wife at 2:07:04 the first time, and when his fist is on the wall at 2:07:40 is when it is at his house. I think his wife replies back to him at 2:09:50 when he sighs, a sigh of relief. I work with parcel maps a lot for work and if you just look up the state, county and parcel map, most maps allow you to search by the landowner.
I will remember this day forever. I was sitting at work when we got the warning that the tornado at 1:28:10 was coming right for us. Those of us with shelters at home left for home as fast as we could, not a good idea but there was nowhere safe to go at work. I only live eight minutes from work but as I turned into my driveway, James Spann on the radio was already telling us to get off the roads and leaves were flying around me. They said the name of my neighborhood on TV. I heard the noise of the tornado but I didn't think it hit us until I emerged from my house and trees, limbs, pieces of roofs, etc. were everywhere. We had no power for the rest of the day. I work in insurance claims and the following day was like nothing I'd seen before or since.
Nice job Lynn
A large violent tornado is zeroing in on his house with his wife and he seamlessly texts his wife and doesn't miss a beat. This is the most legendary tornado coverage ever.
@@lordmatthewanunnahybrid1356 yes! I didn't realize anything happened until he returned after going off screen for a bit and said that the tornado hit his house but his wife was ok!
Was where he pointed at 2:06:12 EXACTLY where he lives?? How do you know where he lives??
Watching from the UK and I wanna say James Spann , Taylor and all the crew have my upmost respect. The state is lucky to have you.
We are blessed to have them.
@@EagleLogic You really are. I respect all the weather presenters over there. They deserve more praise than what they get.
He's truly a legend and a very nice man in person.
James Spann, what can I say? You’re considered a true meteorological legend who once again stayed on the air for so long , keeping the residents of Alabama safe. I live in N.C. but he is definitely well heard of everywhere and a lot of people owe their lives to you ,James!! I don’t know of many meteorologists who are as dedicated as you are so many thanks to you by so many and GOD BLESS YOU James. There aren’t enough words to express the gratitude by many to you .
I agree. James spann, Greg Forbes, Gary England are all true weather legends.
When Suspender Spann comes out, run like when Jim Cantore appears.
With his own Kin in the path of the storm, James doesn't miss a beat. Keeps on going even though his wife and home were affected. Has to be every weatherman's worst nightmare. What a legend!
If you have not seen the coverage of April 27, 2011, go look at I believe it's the morning storms go through Holly Pond, the hometown of Jason Simpson's family. The emotion in his voice brought tears to my eyes. Makes you realize these are real people losing their homes and lives.
@@chrisweaver6187 I've watched the 04/27/11 footage several times. You can definitely tell when Jason 's family is under the gun. What got me was when James' voice broke when he was speaking to Walt Maddox about the university.
Taylor is the queen of storm tracks
Glad someone gave her props - she does a good job too!
Looks like April 27, 2011 has met its challenger in regarding to how it affects James Spann personally. Glad to see he and his family are okay.
I think 2011 as well as Jasper in 1974 was more traumatic for him as he was able to talk about it on his weatherbrains episode last night. Vs with 2011 he couldn't talk about it for at least 6 months @nd the stuff he saw in Jasper in 1974 he said he doesn't want to ever talk about so yeah
I don't even live anywhere near tornado alley (Maine) and I can still listen to this guy talk for hours and cover these events. Don't know what it is about his presentation and delivery but he makes these live trackings incredibly interesting to watch. This station and it's viewers are really blessed to have this guy covering these events.
Totally agree. I wish he was here in DFW Texas covering our weather still but sadly not...
2011 outbreak: "All we can do is pray"
2021 outbreak: "Hair in a biscuit"
I remember one Spann-ism from January 23, 2012: "That thing is tighter than a tick's fanny". I know it was a serious situation, but that one cracked me up lol!
I like "Toyota-sized hail" personally.
You know, these videos are great to have on in the backround while I work the Night Shift. And It's also nice. Soothing, really to have James Spann and company to lullaby me while I have a Nap. Hope everyone stays safe in Alabama during the Tornado Season.
As if we needed anymore proof that James Spann is a legend, this is it.
James, your courage and wisdom is not lost on anyone. You are a hero to all. You've saved countless lives over the years and have educated thousands. Thank you sir for everything. You will definitely go down as one of the greats in the books next to Dr fugita and Dr Forbes.
When the jacket coms off and sleeves roll up you know shits about to hit the fan as my mom says
Yup. Once the suspenders are out, it's on.
Right .long night ahead....keep the coffee hot..lol...
2:17:24 James checks up on his wife...
Bless you!!
That bonehead at 1:39:02 should've been in his safe place with a bike helmet on like everybody else, instead of trying to be cute and be seen on tv.
“It was like a cow going to the bathroom on a flat rock.” -James Spann
😅😅😅. I love watching his coverage.😂
“James Spann has his jacket off, he’s up there in his suspenders and he’s got polygons flying.” Legend.
James saying a tornado hitting any particular house is extremely low, odds wise. That is heartbreaking given how things turned out. Not wrong, just heartbreaking. James got gut punched by those same oddds he talked about, and by the same token somebody else got majorly lucky. James is a weather legend really. Every region has theirs. Some transcend regions. James is known of as far afield as Europe, Russia, Japan. I'd argue James is a globally known weather legend thanks to streams and the 33/40 channel uploading things
As if we in the state of Alabama needed any more reason to say it, James Spann is an absolute legend and I dare anyone to prove otherwise
"Call your friends and family. Tell them James is on with his jacket off, in his suspenders, with polygons flying!!" LOLOL
Damn you can see the exact moment he reads the text about his wife and home. He takes that deep breath. Right at the 2 hour and ten minute mark. This man is a legend. Best in the country.
When that tornado hit james spanns house, it became personal for him .. but he kept on going .. not sure how he done it.. hopefully he does an interview about what he was thinking when this happend
He's incredible, just a gem
No way I could maintain my composure. The man is a beast!
5:35:43 "Look at it now" "Oh boy"
I honesty thought watching live that a mass casualty incident was in progress from that scan. Major close call.
I shudder to think of what it would have been if that was not the forest it was hitting.
1:59:55 Tornado Emergency
I was at work right off hwy 119 in Greystone and I literally watch the tornado go right by my building. It was crazy. I took a really cool picture of it and tried to post it on the 33/40 website but it wouldn't go thru. I'll never forget that day. We had James on the whole time and he helped get us through it. I hate that his house got hit.
Someone could make a small fortune if they invented wipers for the sky cams...
2:30:20 James mentions the damage at his house
James is the ‘Chuck Norris’ of meteorology.
I love watching James Spann!
Thanks to ABC 33/40 for uploading the coverage. I'm very sure that you will unfortunately have to upload more as this season has been unusually bad.
Taylor and James must be exhausted. Nearly 8 hours of coverage twice in a week's time.
James, don't apologize for "cuttin' off the TV programs." You cut them off any old time you like! You have my personal permission :-D
At 1:21:25, that "Shelby County label is incorrect. That is on Morgan Road near I-459, right near where I live. They are driving down into Shelby County towards Helena.
Man.... If there is a GOAT status 4 meteorologists, James Spann has his on lock... U know its kinda messed up when he purposely cracks at himself when he says 'if u have friends or family in the polygons call them & say James Spann has got his jacket off & his suspenders on you need 2 take cover....
He so loves the people of his state & region, continually hammering home the importance of taking the warnings & precautions seriously & respecting the radar as well as the live pictures, the true he knows how 2 honor the lives of those who sadly didn't make it during the 2011 outbreak as well as the survivors... he'll 4ever keep saving lives, a true testament of his character..... 🙌
His teammate Taylor brought it when he needed 2 step away & check on his wife, truly cant understate having people with u that u trust on your weather team 2 have your back.....
Respect the polygon.
You know it's serious when James rolls up his sleeves
bruh y u here
@@wutwoomy123 bruh y u stalk me
@@JakeZCal my mom sent me this (no seriously)
@@wutwoomy123 bet
I had forgotten Christopher Sign was still with ABC33/40 at this point. May God still be Chris's family.
the most astounding part of this all, is how much of the area he has memorized, just all places and structures that he knows, accurately describing where businesses are to better give an understanding to people where the storm is. just wow.
Can someone please get the damn Windham Springs camera secured?!
I really, really wish you would live stream this on yt.
He streams it on ABC 33/40 website and on their Facebook page
@@peachxtaehyung the problem with the 33/40 website is there's no way to get it to play on the TV. I spent over half an hour trying to figure out different ways to get it to stream on the TV. It would stream to devices like the hub, but not on bigger screeens. And not everyone is on Facebook or social media. I agree, in severe situations, making it more easily visible would be beneficial, but how to make that happen, I don't know.
They also live stream it on the ABC 33/40 app
@@sierratrilogy I was in the same boat as you as I wanted to stream it on the big screen in the living room. I used the built-in browser on my Firestick (I think it's named silk?) and I have also used the Firefox app for Firestick. It did an OK job, the live-stream video size matched the screen size of my TV so it fit the frame well, but it was a bit laggy at times. All things aside, I would think ABC 33/40 would have an app for firestick (I don't know what you use) at the least. My local NC news station has a native app to live stream the weather, surprised they don't. Best of luck with this in the future.
The one in NE JeffCo, eventually rated EF-1, dissipated about a quarter mile from my house. Nothing but the grace of God.
Or changes in the atmosphere at that moment...
@@exlibrisscientia6741 No, the grace of God, He controls what happens in the atmosphere. He's sovereign. James believes that.
For some reason the video leaves out the tornado warnings that happened I believe around 9pm in Chilton and Coosa counties near Lake Mitchell, EF2 damage surveyed by the NWS. And then later more EF2 damage in Clay and Randolph counties before moving into Georgia where it exploded into EF4 damage (which would be covered by the Atlanta stations of course).
I don’t think those were warned because I know that there was a couple unwarned tornadoes in cullman county
@@excitedpatsfanwx681 No, they were. This was the primary event, but additional storms did in fact produce damage in Coosa and Chilton counties.
@@PublicAtLarge ok I know there where some unwarned tornadoes I believe that night
You know it's gonna be bad when the polygons are flying..this man is a legend no question
God bless James Spann!
I live in central Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains so we don’t get a lot of tornadoes. By the time they make it over the mountains they’ve weakened from raining themselves out with the cooler temperatures in the higher altitudes but about a month or so ago we had a scary (scary by VA standards) day where I was woken up at 7am by my phone for a tornado warning. Being a bit of a weather nerd myself I have Radar Omega and had seen that we were in a 5% tornado risk (again, scary by Virginia standards) so before I went to sleep the night before, I put a bag together with some water, my battery pack for my phone, a pair of clothes, my laptop for school, and a couple other necessities and set out my cat’s crate and my boots just in case (note: helmet was already downstairs). When I was woken up by that warning, I grabbed my cat before she could realize I had picked her up and shoved her in her crate, slipped on my boots, grabbed my backpack, woke up my grandfather, and went downstairs to our tornado safe spot. My brain was in “shelter now, ask questions later” mode of course. The circulation ended up being a short lived EF2 damaging 15 structures and causing 2 injuries a county over and we weren’t even in the polygon yet, we were in line to be in the next one had the warning been continued. We then went back upstairs and tuned in to our local news. All this to say, my cat gave me the dirtiest look when she heard the phones go off in this coverage because she didn’t enjoy being scooped up and shoved in her crate 😅
5:16:25 I am right beside the T in Trussville. So lucky that thing didn’t enter my neighborhood
If James Spann was from the UK then he would be known has SIR JAMES SPANN! PERIOD!
James is the tornado guru!
I was almost hit by the one going eastern of Birmingham. Gotta love Spann
Same
The first or the second
Graphic violence was watching the sky cam Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011.
I agree with that too. It was very violent looking tornadoes on the sky cam by itself. Multiple angles of that thing was terrifying, but not as violent looking as the sky cam.
Captions are unavailable. Will u be adding these anytime soon?
I don't think they ever do captions unfortunately
There are captions available on YT. I'm currently watching this with them on. I think depending on *how* you're watching it, the option may or may not be available.
To speak to them bot doing captions, I had read somewhere that, if I'm not mistaken, as a result of the Tuscaloosa tornado, captions were made mandatory in severe wx situations. I know they do them in Oklahoma. I'll try to find where I read that.
@@sierratrilogy yeah I don't know if it's mandatory everywhere or just in certain markets
They just added the captions. Its good now.
@@sierratrilogy they just added captions so it's good now.
At 1:27:13, he says you might hear the sirens but most people don't in their homes. Right when he said that, we heard them, in our basement, I kid you not! I don't agree with him 100% about the warning sirens. I do agree that they should not be depended on. People who think "I don't need a NOAA Weather Radio, we have sirens out here", sure, people have got to stop thinking that and taking for granted that they will hear one. On the other hand, you can't just assume that almost nobody will hear the sirens if they are indoors. They reach a 'limited number of people' and that's it. Well, they probably reach a few more people than that.
Hes talking about like when its 4 in the morning or if you have walls made of layers of brick and the wind on the window makes it hard to hear them and plus some people in Alabama are deaf ,not saying that you are
And also some places don't even have any sirens
@@thunderturtle347 No I heard him he meant anytime.
@@ILoveOldTWC ik I did hear mine but I got to see him today
@@thunderturtle347 Book? "All you can do is pray"?
@@ILoveOldTWC no irl and got both weathering life and all you can do is pray
Great work James and Taylor!
We need James Spann
What he says at 5:40:34 is like a parent telling their kids 😆
James Spann did not pull his punches here, alright lmao
What kind of radars did you have suing the tornado super tornado outbreak of 1974?
WSR-57 and maybe a WSR-74. The WSR-57 was like a military-surplus leftover from WWII. There was a little bit of refinement on them for weather, but not much. The 74 was a bit better but still not close to the WSR-88 of today. Plotted storm tracks with a grease pencil and paper maps overlaid on the round screen. I've seen son YT videos where people were using them before, and there is also something on the Brent/Centerville tornado in 1973 that ran over the NWS radar there.
@@GravyHucker If you really want to see a WSR-57 and Tornadoes search for the 1965 Twin Cities Tornadoes. The NWS Chanhassen digitized the radar scans from that night and you can see how an old WSR-57 looked.
@@paulsonj72 Thanks John!
@@GravyHucker That is considered one of Minnesota’s seminal weather events and there is no TV coverage on You Tube BUT there is 5+ hours of radio coverage from WCCO from that night. Many people say the WCCO Radio coverage helped to save many lives. Thirteen people were killed but it is said that the death toll would have been much higher without WCCO radio. It was also the first time in the Twin Cities that civil defense sirens were used for weather. In those days there were a lot more sirens due to the Cold War.
@@paulsonj72 I appreciate the history lesson. I'm far more familiar with severe weather in the Southern Plains and Southeast US, for some reason I have never heard much about tornadoes from places like Minnesota, Michigan, North Dakota, etc. Maybe ignorance on my part, maybe it's just not as talked about? Seeing how the warning process has changed over the years along with detection and forecasting is almost as interesting as the events to me. Again, I thank you.
This was so scary. I felt the wind in my basement
Me too...and I live in pgh, pa.
Bless your heart.
Thanks James it was a scary afternoon I went to Calera cause I had to go o Birmingham for an MRI and when I dove up 65 the house on the side of the inerstate was damage with a car flipped in the house please listen to James when he says get in your safe place and get a helmet and closed toed shoes and one thing James I learned from another meteorologist is we need whistles or airborne in our safe place because if we get stuck we need to get first responders to us so we blow the whistle
A tornado was heading right for my town (Parrish) but thank God it dissipated before it got here.
I know it's very serious. And I appreciate your safety oriented nature. But I fall asleep listening to weather coverage. I'm not all that sleepy after hearing a velocity couplet referred to as "hanging in there like a hair on a biscuit" lmao. You're a wonderful human, Mr. Spann.
Or referring to the heavy rain as being “like a cow going to the bathroom on a flat rock.” 1:08:01
Thats right! Every life is important!
This dude is a legend
It's interesting that the same general area in the tornado warning polygon in south Jefferson and north Shelby had epic flash flooding last Wednesday night.
JAMES SPANN THE LEGEND
Yes, he is a weather legend
Freaky that this was 1 day off of the wild Tornadoes this year that ripped through Mississippi into Alabama. Damn...
WOW!! They go LIVE on multiple radio stations during emergencies such as this? WOW...thats something!
In major markets a log radio stations will simulcast TV coverage. When I worked in radio one summer we had three warnings in one week and since we were small market resell we did was simulcast on the AM and FM stations. But we got a lot of good press for how we handled everything that week.
James Spann and Alan Sealls. Best meteorologists ever. Legends of the profession.
When James takes his jacket off you know shits about to get real
I think this year is gonna be the most tornadoes in one year in history
6:39:13 Footage of damage.
Seen as many as 10 tornadoes warnings at 1 time
Oh my god, the South has been getting hammered with those damn things!
you know it's scary when they say your city
That's the truth.
Yah like a town
i got scared when it hit the city, and somehow i heard nothing when i took shelter except for me seeing sunshine
Keeps doing his job while a tornado hits his house. Unreal.
James Spann is the Richard Dreyfus of storm chasing.
Awww Christopher Sign. 😪
1:16:57 when it the middle of the night and theres an amber alert this is what i wake up to
RIP Christopher Sign (1976-2021)
Imagine when summer comes is gonna get really crazy
Tornadoes are rare in Alabama during the summer. The storm track is too far north, and the wind fields aloft are weak. We do have convective pop up thunderstorms that are isolated or scattered hit and miss, but they don't spawn tornadoes. That can put out a lot of cloud to ground lightning that's very dangerous in itself though. It's November as I'm typing this and we're in our "Second tornado season", as this time of year of often referred to.
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حقيقة اعصار التورنادوا :
هو في الاساس رباني ومن غضب الله الجبار
ومن شدته انه اذا مر على نهر شقه نصفين ورفع قاعه الطيني وذر ترابه في الهواء
وكذلك يقتلع البنايات والبيوت والاشجار ومن ثم رميها في مكان بعيد مهما كانت ثقيلة وعظيمة
ويحمل الجسور والقناطر والخزانات الكبيرة ويدور بها وكانها عود ثقاب ويلفها كالمروحة من شدة قوته العنيفة
ويحمل معه الحيوان والانسان الى عنان السماء ثم يلفظه خارج الغلاف الجوي او الكرة الارضية وكانها عملية تفريغ نحو الفضاء الخارجي
مما يتسبب بخسائر مادية جسيمة وهائلة تقدر بمئات المليارات من الدولارات
وهذا غيظ من فيض وهذا بعض ما يجري في امريكا
ان الذين كذبوا باياتنا واستكبروا عنها لا تفتح لهم ابواب السماء ولا يدخلون الجنة حتى يلج الجمل في سم الخياط ...
اوكل الله جل في علاه بكل شئ ملكا :
فهناك ملك الجبال وملك البحار وملك السحاب وملك الرياح وباستطاعته ان يامرها بما يريد
ان زلزلوا او احرقوا او دمروا او حطموا او اغرقوا
فينتقم الله ممن يشاء ولا يستطيع اي مخلوق في هذا الكون منع قضاءه جل وعلا
ويقال ان صوت الرعد حسبما ورد في الاثر
انه صوت الملك الذي يزجر به السحاب ويسوقه حيث يشاء بامر الله عز وجل ... والله اعلم
قال تعالى ( وما تاتيهم من آية من آيات ربهم الا كانوا عنها معرضين )
وقال تعالى ( فأرسلنا عليهم الطوفان والجراد والقمل والضفادع والدم ... )
وقال تعالى ( وان يروا كسفا من السماء ساقطا يقولوا سحاب مركوم )
وقال تعالى ( فلما راوه عارضا مستقبل اوديتهم قالوا هذا عارض ممطرنا بل هو مااستعجلتم به ريح فيها عذاب اليم )
وقال تعالى ( ولو شئنا لرفعناه بها ولكنه أخلد إلى الأرض واتبع هواه فمثله كمثل الكلب إن تحمل عليه يلهث أو تتركه يلهث ذلك مثل القوم الذين كذبوا بآياتنا فاقصص القصص لعلهم يتفكرون )
وقال تعالى ( مثل الذين حملوا التوراة ثم لم يحملوها كمثل الحمار يحمل اسفارا بئس
مثل القوم الذين كذبوا بآيات الله والله لا يهدي القوم الظالمين )
وقال تعالى ( قل ياأهل الكتاب لستم على شيء حتى تقيموا التوراة والإنجيل وما أنزل إليكم من ربكم وليزيدن كثيرا منهم ما أنزل إليك من ربك طغيانا وكفرا فلا تأس على القوم الكافرين )
يَـأَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ رَسُولُنَا يُبَيِّنُ لَكُمْ كَثِيراً مِّمَّا كُنتُمْ تُخْفُونَ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَيَعْفُواْ عَن كَثِيرٍ قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ مِّنَ اللَّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ يَهْدِي بِهِ اللَّهُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوَانَهُ سُبُلَ السَّلامِ وَيُخْرِجُهُمْ مِّنِ
الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَيَهْدِيهِمْ إِلَى صِراطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ
وهذا ما سيحدث لامريكا كثيرا وستدفع الثمن باهضا
كل شئ انتهى ولا يستطيعون فعل اي شئ
اللهم عليك بهم فانهم لا يعجزونك
7:33 Bruh
2:03:47
5:31:05 "What you're watching here is graphic violence"
That was a crazy day all day reported tornadoes
@ZDUBS I HAVE MY NOAA WEATHER RADIO 📻 AND MY PHONE 📱 CHARGE
Impressive lightning bolt about the 7:35-7:40 mark
This is like April 27th 2011! Wait until next month! Let's see what happens.
No, it's not a generational tornado outbreak. Spann gets that question every time there's a higher end severe weather and tornado threat. "Will this be like April 27, 2011?" He doesn't like to answer that question. How he does is he says, no it won't, that was a generational event, but if a tornado comes down your street and hits your house, that's your April 27, 2011. We've had deadly severe weather and tornadic events without it being a generational event. November 15, 1989, Huntsville, 21 deaths, March 27, 1994, when one hit the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, killing 20 people, April 8, 1998, Oak Grove to Pratt City, 32 people in Jefferson County died, plus 2 more in St. Clair County. December 16, 2000, 11 people dead in the southern part of Tuscaloosa. Those are some examples of non-generational tornadic events that still caused destruction and loss of life.
not even close
There were 62 tornadoes in one state 252 death's and reached out a quarter of the nation so no
2:06:18 ahh f*ck
The people that die is just like everybody else they need to realise when you hear about a tornado outbreak in your area you better believe you gonna see a tornado 100% It upset me we are professionals reporting every warning and yet people die because they don't pay attention
I watch these while gaming (Minecraft, Cities Skylines)
I am on at 2:31:06.
@ToastedNoodle I see you
I live in irondale 😳
ABC 33/40 should maybe get a couple of weather helicopters.
1:38:38 bonehead intterups James spann
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