James Spann and Taylor Sarallo; a powerful tornado tears through Fultondale and Center Point, just north of Birmingham, during the late night hours of January 25.
We say the same thing about Tom Terry here in central Florida wftv channel 9 news on ABC! Especially during Hurricane Coverage! He takes his jacket, loosens his tie, and then rolls up his sleeves! If he rolls up his sleeves you know it's really bad!😮
Not at my place. The storm did its damage about a mile to the east of us. Still heard it and had to deal with 50 trees down on our street. It sounded like a train. I have friends who lost houses, but we luckily had ours. With the damage on our street, my guess is that an EF1 side vortex went up our street, or we just had very high straight line winds around the tornado. We probably had 90-95 mph winds on our street.
@T.J. Anthony idk about that one.....I think what we were saying was that the trends for a horrific outbreak no matter where you land in tornado or Dixie alley were every 7 to 10 years ....in other words all I think the gist was that historically speaking it was the year for bad things to happen...... now I appreciate those stats.....and I don't dispute them whatsoever and as for Arkansas being overlapped by traditional tornado alley and Dixie alley I am compelled to think that yall are more prone to get big (and by big I mean 3 and higher) is much more likely today than it was 10 years ago
We'd love to have him in coastal NC, especially during hurricane season, when we get brief spinups during hurricanes. I'd have LOVED to hear him call the tornado outbreak we had in the Piedmont in April 2011, right around when the Tuscaloosa tornado happened.
Judging by how many tornadoes we're already getting in Winter, I can already tell it's going to be a bad Spring. If I remember right, 2011 and 2013 started out this way.
Another thing I'm thinking of is the rapid weather changes. My city got over a foot of snow in central arkansas back in february 2011. Today my mother sent me a picture (I moved up north 2 years ago) and it looks exactly the same as that day. History will repeat itself, and I'm sure meteorologists are preparing for it.
I’m 71 and tornadoes have been hitting around Birmingham all my life .they really like pleasant grove fultondale forestdale Bessemer. I used to work in gardendale and we would watch them go over. I lived in Bessemer for a while and had one hit about 3 blocks from me. As a child living in Birmingham I can vividly remember putting mattresses over our heads during tornadoes. So nothing unusual about these hitting Birmingham areas
The National Weather Service should've issued the warning at least 10 minutes before they did. They try SO hard to keep the false alarm ratio down, that Fultondale only got 8 to 10 minutes lead time.
But if they issue and nothing happens then people will stop listening to the warnings again so more people will be killed when tornadoes do happen than there are now
@@peachxtaehyung I get that! I get that completely! Going into the event 10 years ago the FAR was way out of hand and about 80% of tornado warnings turned out to be false alarms. The National Weather Service would pull the trigger for a brief, spin-up tornado, or anytime there was even a very weak couplet. People after a while didn't take the warnings seriously since nothing ever seemed to happen, and on that fateful day 10 years ago, so many got killed. But now they are doing the polar opposite. I have watched coverage since then and they wait until the rotation on radar gets tight before they decide to pull the trigger. Last February, one barely missed my sister's home in Helena. The rotation got weaker, but the storms were cyclic, meaning the the rotation would ramp up, then weaken, then ramp back up again. They canceled the warning for that storm too soon, and reissued it 5 minutes later for the exact same storm. With the coverage I have watched since AFTER April 27, 2011, it seems they issue a tornado warning as all but a last resort. There needs to be more of a middle ground between the two extremes. So, you're comment goes without saying. You really think I did not know that? The NWS is NOT going to make the False Alarm Ratio 0%.
@@ILoveOldTWC you don't need to be rude with me... For this night's tornado it wasn't that tight when it was issued. As James said it didn't look like a tornadic signature until right over fultondale. In my opinion they did it just right instead of having it stay warned from the alabama state line onwards and have people start not taking it seriously. But I do agree with there needing to be a middle ground at least for those in mobile homes and James is trying to get that planned and approved
That's why you shouldn't rely on phone alerts because they aren't always reliable. What you need to get is a Midland All Hazards weather radio. It's a life saver.
That's why you don't rely on any 1 way of alerts. As James always says, have many layers to your warning system. Have phone alerts with any app of choice, have your phones WEA alerts enabled, and a Midland NOAA weather radio
I'm fairly certain Mr. Spann said "pornado" sometime during this video, but it may have been a product of my imagination. Approximately 24:08 into the video
between the clarity and professionalism of Spann and the support from the easy-on-the-eyes Taylor 😍 , there's almost no reason to not pay attention to the news when the weather is severe. awesome coverage and best wishes to those affected by these storms.
I worked with Taylor remotely from an operations hub years ago when she was employed at WKRG in Mobile. She was very professional and tech savvy. Glad to know her career has continued to advance.
James I can make you a tornado safety list for everything you need during a warning 1. Lowest floor 2. Small Room hall bathroom or closet 3. Away from windows and doors 4. Near the center 5. Helmet ( protects head from flying debris ) 6. Closed toed shoes ( If you have to walk in debris it protects your feet ) 7. Whistle or Airhorn ( for first responders to reach you if your trapped 8. Flashlight ( if at night helps you get out when your stuck under debris )
Why is the northern Birmingham suburbs such a magnet for tornadoes. Fultondale, Pleasant Grove, Center Point, Concord and McDonald Chappel are always getting destroyed by huge tornadoes every 10 years
James Spann claims the foothill of the Appalachians cause lift in the atmosphere and is responsible for Alabamas notorious long track violent tornadoes
i need a respect the polygon shirt...not to make light of the situation but the shirts could be sold with the proceeds going to help those injured or who have lost homes...maybe a large sum could be donated to the American Red Cross...
@@ronswann1445 my father wasn’t thrilled with the Red Cross. Something that happened in ww2. Then I found out how much the Red Cross paid their people. It just blew my mind. The Salvation Army is at every disaster and is hardly ever mentioned so I was throwing them a plug
I was on my twitter account relaying warnings all night for this. Even thought I'm not a major account, I still felt well to relay warning messages as they were issued, using a weather radio, monitoring the NOAA radar as well as keeping a page to alert me for tornado warnings.
You can hear Taylor's groan about the negative CC at 13:30. Dual-pol is a technology that has immensely helped us identify tornadoes via radar, but it's always terrifying to see that destruction is happening in real time.
If it was an EF4, there would’ve been far more injuries and fatalities given the dense populations it went through. I think it’ll be a high-end EF2 or low/mid EF3.
If I lived in tornado alley, James Spann is the weatherman I'd want on my TV to fill me in on what's happening. Just the way he communicates and how immensely knowledgeable he is about severe weather, the way he speaks instills confidence. I know it's a sort of running joke that the weatherman often gets things wrong, but if this guy tells you it's a serious situation, you know damn well it is. I live in New York so I've never seen a Tornado with my own two eyes. I've had a few Tornado warnings, super cells that had rotation present, but nothing ever touched down thankfully. Tornadoes and severe weather in general continues to fascinate me, ever since I was a kid who loved watching thunderstorms.
Love James' preaching about the sirens around 1:28:00 mark. Over 90% of DFW residents, where I reside, have the siren mentality, and often bitch about not hearing them whenever tornado warnings are issued on the local station's social media outlets. Astounding, frightening and frustrating how rampant this issue is here...
Agreed, everyone is NOT gonna hear it, & conditions can switch ona dime, best shot of staying ahead is paying attention 2 the skies the weather apps & the weather radios. Evenmore so the day's 4cast. Hot days with significant humidity 4 example is a no no. Once a strong cold front approaches, thats like a really jacked up sneeze waiting 2 happen of severe weather. Instability in the air is NO joke, knowing that tornadoes can be brought about in these kind of conditions....
It's gonna be a sad day for you good folks in AL when this man retires. I'm all the way in the desert SW.. (Vegas). And we (weather buffs) are well aware of this man. And on a lighter note. Don't know how light I can be with the subject of tornadoes, but I think I figured it out. OK residents will feel me on this. But it seems if you don't want to go face to face with a monster tornado. Don't live anywhere near a town called Newcastle..
There is actually not a city called Newcastle, Alabama. I double checked. There is a neighborhood called New Castle, which is part of Gardendale, but not a town or city called Newcastle.
When will there be something showing Alabama and the rest of the southeast is actually more dangerous of an area, a hotbed breeding ground for tornadoes, and severe weather, just as much if not more than the great plains? I constantly see these videos or maps showing Texas- North Dakota as being "THE" tornado capital of the world, when in reality from Missouri south to Louisiana to east to Georgia are hammered almost every spring, and sometimes during the fall and winter months. Case n point this tornado that just hit Jefferson county at 10-11pm at night. Yes the great plains are a hotspot for tornadoes, but when discussing or describing the areas that have tornado fatalities on a yearly basis with Alabama having the most EF5 tornadoes outta all the lower contiguous 48 states. Its like when you look up tornado alley, it always shows the great plains. With a side note that the southeast has dixie alley. C'mon people! No wonder people don't take sever weather serious here in the south. Cause lets face it, there are way too many ignorant people in the south when it comes to weather. And when they see that tornado alley is west of Alabama they usually read over the side note about dixie alley. And If I was a crooked politician and wanted to do something good besides be good at crooked. I would have schools in the southeast make you have to take at least a year, like you would with physical education. Though I think with the obesity epidemic going on in Alabama, PE should be a 4 year deal in high school. I think having students somewhere between 6th and 12th grade take a class in meteorology, understanding weather maps, understanding forecasts,learning how to read a weather map,knowing where you live on a radar feed of your area,knowing what to look for as far as a debris signature, even understanding wind sheer, how to understand how the gate to gate sheer can help you know that a tornado is possible. I taught my kids all of that. Especially knowing where you are at when you see a particular storm or line of storms is heading their way. I taught em how to recognize a super cell thunderstorm from a squall line. What a mesoscale convective system is, what a mesocyclone is, even how hurricanes form, how freezing rain occurs, sleet, and snow. I watched a video about Etowah county talking about eliminating the tornado warning sirens, snd and Im like "Are you crazy?!?!" I am very weather educated, and know exactly what I am lookinh for. But when I hear those WW1, WW2 air raid sirens, or in some counties cases, hearing a siren then you hear "WARNING, WARNING! THERE HAS BEEN A TORNADO DETECTED IN YOUR AREA. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! " When.I hear that sound, my adrenaline goes nuts. Even If I know that the storm is going to be north, south, or it's only radar indicated and I see nothing that would concern me. I still become alert when I hear that sound. And another reason I feel it would be necessary for students to be educated in weather awareness is because of too many people getting upset because James Spann, or in my NWS area in North Ala with Brad Travis having to break into that reality show, soap opera, sports event, or whatever people feel is more important than idk, THE POSSIBILITY OF DEATH! Whatever you know! If you wanna take that chance then by all means just watch online streaming of whatever you wanna watch. But I be damned if you try and have a weatherman prohibited from interrupting your stupid show, or game. (I love Alabama football, Basketball,Baseball,Softball, whatever, but I want to be alerted if I dont have my phone handy, or charging) Anyway, I'll stop cryin and being a ding a ling now! Just someone in the meteorology community please make it more known that the great plains is not the only hotspot for tornadoes. If anything the southeast should be the spot that is most problematic.
Missouri kc side is waaaay overdue for ef4-ef5. Our time is this year. Birmingham gets hit joplin got hit. Birmingham area got hit this year.... yeaaaa
Much respect for James Spann, I’m from the Phenix City, AL /Columbus,GA Area and we got good Meteorologist down here, but he he the damn greatest in both Alabama and Georgia
@Chandler Hazen: Did you know on March 14, 2008, when the tornado hit downtown Atlanta during a SEC basketball game in the Georgia Dome between Alabama and Mississippi State? The announcers of the game while on air said they had received a called from James Spann of Birmingham.
I like Taylor but she sure likes those white circles and doodles. I would prefer less mess on the screen, but that’s me. They still do an awesome job with information and only ones I watch.
The circles she draws like at 10:21 are to more clearly indicate the specific feature on radar. It’s difficult otherwise to know what exactly is the area of interest.
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You know it's getting serious when James takes his coat off.
if says napier you well died
you well be want to ask more questions about God if says like that
We say the same thing about Tom Terry here in central Florida wftv channel 9 news on ABC! Especially during Hurricane Coverage! He takes his jacket, loosens his tie, and then rolls up his sleeves! If he rolls up his sleeves you know it's really bad!😮
You know it's serious when he has his suspenders on!
When he takes his shirt off and leaves his tie on, may God have mercy on your soul.
Nighttime tornadoes are the worst. 😫
agreed. We had to deal with one in Chattanooga at 11 PM on April 12th, 2020 in the Easter outbreak. Was a large EF3 with 145 mph winds
@@williamodle5417 Yikes! Did anyone get hurt?
Not at my place. The storm did its damage about a mile to the east of us. Still heard it and had to deal with 50 trees down on our street. It sounded like a train. I have friends who lost houses, but we luckily had ours. With the damage on our street, my guess is that an EF1 side vortex went up our street, or we just had very high straight line winds around the tornado. We probably had 90-95 mph winds on our street.
This man is a God in and around Alabama. When he takes his coat off people are in trouble.
James you are amazing with what you do here for the weather. So informative for the people out there.
Its 2021 and we have a significant tornado outbreak once every 10 years or so. 2011, 2000, 1998, 1994, 1983, 1974. This year gonna be interesting
We have a town in Oklahoma named Moore and they legit get hit by a big one every 4 to 7 years
@T.J. Anthony idk about that one.....I think what we were saying was that the trends for a horrific outbreak no matter where you land in tornado or Dixie alley were every 7 to 10 years ....in other words all I think the gist was that historically speaking it was the year for bad things to happen...... now I appreciate those stats.....and I don't dispute them whatsoever and as for Arkansas being overlapped by traditional tornado alley and Dixie alley I am compelled to think that yall are more prone to get big (and by big I mean 3 and higher) is much more likely today than it was 10 years ago
Some people here in Indiana have been talking about that as well.
Yep and its a moderate la nina
the 3/17 and 3/25 storms were just a preview of what’s in store
Prayers to all affected ✝️
When Spann shows the tan, sh!t is about to hit the fan!
James Spann is an absolute legend
Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee is the new tornado alley is seems...
Mississippi Alabama and Tennessee are a second tornado alley called Dixie Alley. Similar amount of serious tornadoes
I like the new basemap you have under the radar now. I haven't seen any footage from 33/40 in a while.
I went to bed before it happened ☹️ I was going to track it on radar
me too i missed it
An i could've put in my files of tornadoes
Same ugh
I went to bed after the tornado warnings expired because I had school in the morning
I wish there were two of him so we could have a James Spann here in central Arkansas! lol
@T.J. Anthony True, now if they could just start standing in their suspenders when stuff is getting bad lol.
We'd love to have him in coastal NC, especially during hurricane season, when we get brief spinups during hurricanes.
I'd have LOVED to hear him call the tornado outbreak we had in the Piedmont in April 2011, right around when the Tuscaloosa tornado happened.
2 men who made suspenders famous. Larry king n james spaan.
My dad used to work at that outback restaurant but he wasn't there thank god 🙏🙏
24:09
Pornado Warning
no need to be alarmed United States averages one tornado in January per year what I would also recommend in tornado shelters would be a diaper
I tak juz w zyciu jest, jednemu zlodziejowi dal wiecej a drugiemu mniej
RESPECT THE POLYGON
r e s p e c t t h e p o l y g o n
𝚁𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚢𝚐𝚘𝚗
_Respect the polygon_
*R E S P E C T I T N O W!!! NO TIKTOKING!*
This man is a weather veteran i enjoyed watching this. He knows his stuff i studied meteorology in school and i loved every second.
His tombstone will either say “get a weather radio” or “respect the polygon”
Or both!
Nah, more like "to hell with tornado sirens".
@@xtrisaratops I could see that one also
Or maybe like "Small room, lowest floor, near the center, and away from windows."
@@PerroV "helmet and hard soled shoes"
Give this man a raise. He had dates, weather terminology, straight knowledge off the cuff.
Yes I love James! He has all that plus knowledge of all the communities and he doesn't ignore people in smaller communities unlike a lot of markets!!!
Sinclair would raise retransmission fees though lmao.......
All jokes aside, HE DESERVES A DAMN RAISE.
@@friesareyummy He was the same man who covered the F5 tornado in 1998. He's been doing it for a long time
@@vortexchaos70 I know. I was joking.
@@friesareyummy Oh i know. I was just adding on to you saying he deserves a damn raise. He's deserved a raise every time he's covered a tornado.
Spann the man! Been fortunate to live in his coverage area for most of my life. The lives he's saved...
Judging by how many tornadoes we're already getting in Winter, I can already tell it's going to be a bad Spring. If I remember right, 2011 and 2013 started out this way.
I remember watching the 2011 outbreak on the news. I was a high school junior at the time
How many tornadoes will florida get?
@@jessicablueheart9772Only time can tell.
Another thing I'm thinking of is the rapid weather changes. My city got over a foot of snow in central arkansas back in february 2011. Today my mother sent me a picture (I moved up north 2 years ago) and it looks exactly the same as that day. History will repeat itself, and I'm sure meteorologists are preparing for it.
No this was below average lol
The way he backs off the screen and comes back with no suit jacket, I was like..yep, it's about get real!
Once more James Spann has saved lives in the Birmingham, Alabama area.
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Mr Spann needs to be the head of the National Weather Service. He truly is the voice of Alabama.
Nearly 10 years... Another one... A deadly tornado hitting close to Birmingham... What is up with that?
Dixie Alley
They had one hit on Christmas Day a few years back
I’m 71 and tornadoes have been hitting around Birmingham all my life .they really like pleasant grove fultondale forestdale Bessemer. I used to work in gardendale and we would watch them go over. I lived in Bessemer for a while and had one hit about 3 blocks from me. As a child living in Birmingham I can vividly remember putting mattresses over our heads during tornadoes. So nothing unusual about these hitting Birmingham areas
Birmingham could be a tornado shield type of spot; tornadoes rarely strike the immediate areas of it
Reed Timmer said every 10 years a bad year of deviating tornadoes happen
James Spann is the best weatherman I've seen in a long time.
Very professional
The National Weather Service should've issued the warning at least 10 minutes before they did. They try SO hard to keep the false alarm ratio down, that Fultondale only got 8 to 10 minutes lead time.
8 to 10 better than no warning!
But if they issue and nothing happens then people will stop listening to the warnings again so more people will be killed when tornadoes do happen than there are now
@@donaldthomason4588 That's how it was 30 years ago when Doppler Radar was in it's infancy in the early 1990s.
@@peachxtaehyung I get that! I get that completely! Going into the event 10 years ago the FAR was way out of hand and about 80% of tornado warnings turned out to be false alarms. The National Weather Service would pull the trigger for a brief, spin-up tornado, or anytime there was even a very weak couplet. People after a while didn't take the warnings seriously since nothing ever seemed to happen, and on that fateful day 10 years ago, so many got killed. But now they are doing the polar opposite. I have watched coverage since then and they wait until the rotation on radar gets tight before they decide to pull the trigger. Last February, one barely missed my sister's home in Helena. The rotation got weaker, but the storms were cyclic, meaning the the rotation would ramp up, then weaken, then ramp back up again. They canceled the warning for that storm too soon, and reissued it 5 minutes later for the exact same storm. With the coverage I have watched since AFTER April 27, 2011, it seems they issue a tornado warning as all but a last resort.
There needs to be more of a middle ground between the two extremes. So, you're comment goes without saying. You really think I did not know that? The NWS is NOT going to make the False Alarm Ratio 0%.
@@ILoveOldTWC you don't need to be rude with me... For this night's tornado it wasn't that tight when it was issued. As James said it didn't look like a tornadic signature until right over fultondale. In my opinion they did it just right instead of having it stay warned from the alabama state line onwards and have people start not taking it seriously. But I do agree with there needing to be a middle ground at least for those in mobile homes and James is trying to get that planned and approved
James Spann is a hero!
I live on the southern end of the polygon. My phone alert didn't sound, for some reason. I woke up hearing the wind.
That's why you shouldn't rely on phone alerts because they aren't always reliable. What you need to get is a Midland All Hazards weather radio. It's a life saver.
That's why you don't rely on any 1 way of alerts. As James always says, have many layers to your warning system. Have phone alerts with any app of choice, have your phones WEA alerts enabled, and a Midland NOAA weather radio
59:00 or so..."Tweeter and Facebag"...genius.
@T.J. Anthony well, yes. I just thought it was funny.
I'm fairly certain Mr. Spann said "pornado" sometime during this video, but it may have been a product of my imagination. Approximately 24:08 into the video
between the clarity and professionalism of Spann and the support from the easy-on-the-eyes Taylor 😍 , there's almost no reason to not pay attention to the news when the weather is severe. awesome coverage and best wishes to those affected by these storms.
I worked with Taylor remotely from an operations hub years ago when she was employed at WKRG in Mobile. She was very professional and tech savvy. Glad to know her career has continued to advance.
Damn yall are fast
James I can make you a tornado safety list for everything you need during a warning
1. Lowest floor
2. Small Room hall bathroom or closet
3. Away from windows and doors
4. Near the center
5. Helmet ( protects head from flying debris )
6. Closed toed shoes ( If you have to walk in debris it protects your feet )
7. Whistle or Airhorn ( for first responders to reach you if your trapped
8. Flashlight ( if at night helps you get out when your stuck under debris )
Why is the northern Birmingham suburbs such a magnet for tornadoes. Fultondale, Pleasant Grove, Center Point, Concord and McDonald Chappel are always getting destroyed by huge tornadoes every 10 years
James Spann claims the foothill of the Appalachians cause lift in the atmosphere and is responsible for Alabamas notorious long track violent tornadoes
And trussville
i need a respect the polygon shirt...not to make light of the situation but the shirts could be sold with the proceeds going to help those injured or who have lost homes...maybe a large sum could be donated to the American Red Cross...
Not the Red Cross. Give to the Salvation Army
@@janblackman6204 both!!!!
@@ronswann1445 my father wasn’t thrilled with the Red Cross. Something that happened in ww2. Then I found out how much the Red Cross paid their people. It just blew my mind. The Salvation Army is at every disaster and is hardly ever mentioned so I was throwing them a plug
I was on my twitter account relaying warnings all night for this. Even thought I'm not a major account, I still felt well to relay warning messages as they were issued, using a weather radio, monitoring the NOAA radar as well as keeping a page to alert me for tornado warnings.
I grew up watching James Span. Even though I don't live in the area anymore I still watch him. He is the best
I live in PA but I want to be a meteorologist when I’m older, and he’s the best to learn from
James spann kicks ass!
respect the polygon. doing so could save your life
You can hear Taylor's groan about the negative CC at 13:30. Dual-pol is a technology that has immensely helped us identify tornadoes via radar, but it's always terrifying to see that destruction is happening in real time.
So so close man thank God for him and weather radio
I kept wondering, where’s the suspenders? Didn’t take long lol...
I believe this was an EF3 or EF4 tornado that went through Fultondale.
Will probably shape up being that way, yes
If it was an EF4, there would’ve been far more injuries and fatalities given the dense populations it went through. I think it’ll be a high-end EF2 or low/mid EF3.
@@brandonbaril4516 it had wind strength of 155 mph at its highest and that’s EF4 winds
I'd say strong EF3. Possibly EF4
@@Jerry-ou9br it looked like a wide tornado
JAMES IS PROBABLY THE BEST METEROLOGIST IN THE PROFESSION. REED TIMMER WITHOUT THE LOUD MOUTH.
49:41 *dead*😂
If I lived in tornado alley, James Spann is the weatherman I'd want on my TV to fill me in on what's happening. Just the way he communicates and how immensely knowledgeable he is about severe weather, the way he speaks instills confidence. I know it's a sort of running joke that the weatherman often gets things wrong, but if this guy tells you it's a serious situation, you know damn well it is.
I live in New York so I've never seen a Tornado with my own two eyes. I've had a few Tornado warnings, super cells that had rotation present, but nothing ever touched down thankfully. Tornadoes and severe weather in general continues to fascinate me, ever since I was a kid who loved watching thunderstorms.
6:26 he goes in to `suspender` mode
@T.J. Anthony lol time to analyze the Tornadoe 🌪
James Spann is the best meteorologist I’ve seen who is dedicated to hard work.
6:18 when spann goes off screen and comes back without his jacket, you know it’s serious
this man, and David Paul for wtvy in south alabama.. bro the two BEST meteorologists there is🤙🏼
Amazes me how calm and collected he is regardless of how many times I did that I’d still be freaking out
Great job Taylor, working and mentoring with the best. 👍
Love James' preaching about the sirens around 1:28:00 mark. Over 90% of DFW residents, where I reside, have the siren mentality, and often bitch about not hearing them whenever tornado warnings are issued on the local station's social media outlets. Astounding, frightening and frustrating how rampant this issue is here...
Agreed, everyone is NOT gonna hear it, & conditions can switch ona dime, best shot of staying ahead is paying attention 2 the skies the weather apps & the weather radios. Evenmore so the day's 4cast. Hot days with significant humidity 4 example is a no no. Once a strong cold front approaches, thats like a really jacked up sneeze waiting 2 happen of severe weather. Instability in the air is NO joke, knowing that tornadoes can be brought about in these kind of conditions....
Respect the polygon!!
we just left fultondale just 45 minutes earlier... but in cartmans voice respect the polygon!!!
Maybe this will teach you to listen to the polygon!
Nothing’s worse than Cartman with a polygon.
I remember this guy! And I’m not even from this area but this guy was covering the 2011 storm right?
Yes
I’m glad he’s still at it!
Watching this, in expectation of him live streaming soon, due to the PDS the SPC just issued for today.
Wait does everybody have a helmet for everyone in their family? Not from a tornado area don't know if his is normal?
An absolute great weather man thank you for the updates.. what a great job you do thank you..
5 years old. Your like someone who you know. I told my dad’s flower girl’s mother that I was a flower girl at a wedding. She thought I was like them.
It's gonna be a sad day for you good folks in AL when this man retires. I'm all the way in the desert SW.. (Vegas). And we (weather buffs) are well aware of this man. And on a lighter note. Don't know how light I can be with the subject of tornadoes, but I think I figured it out. OK residents will feel me on this. But it seems if you don't want to go face to face with a monster tornado. Don't live anywhere near a town called Newcastle..
There is actually not a city called Newcastle, Alabama. I double checked. There is a neighborhood called New Castle, which is part of Gardendale, but not a town or city called Newcastle.
Or Moore it seems.
No drama and prima donna antics. Just straight facts. That’s why we watch him.
....And then he took his jacket off, time 2 work! #RespectThePolygon! 🏆
It's been 10 years since 2011 tornado outbreak
Not yet soon though
Not until April 27 but close... It's hard to believe it's been 10 years
@@peachxtaehyung yeah
Mr. Spann is incredible, and if you live down south you know when the jacket comes off that the shit is about to hit the fan.
Spann is a legend in life saving...
Hey James! Send all the tornadoes to Tulsa!! It need it.
Anybody have tshirts available with “respect the polygon”?
the boy who passed from the tornado named eliot he was my frind
When will there be something showing Alabama and the rest of the southeast is actually more dangerous of an area, a hotbed breeding ground for tornadoes, and severe weather, just as much if not more than the great plains? I constantly see these videos or maps showing Texas- North Dakota as being "THE" tornado capital of the world, when in reality from Missouri south to Louisiana to east to Georgia are hammered almost every spring, and sometimes during the fall and winter months. Case n point this tornado that just hit Jefferson county at 10-11pm at night. Yes the great plains are a hotspot for tornadoes, but when discussing or describing the areas that have tornado fatalities on a yearly basis with Alabama having the most EF5 tornadoes outta all the lower contiguous 48 states. Its like when you look up tornado alley, it always shows the great plains. With a side note that the southeast has dixie alley. C'mon people! No wonder people don't take sever weather serious here in the south. Cause lets face it, there are way too many ignorant people in the south when it comes to weather. And when they see that tornado alley is west of Alabama they usually read over the side note about dixie alley. And If I was a crooked politician and wanted to do something good besides be good at crooked. I would have schools in the southeast make you have to take at least a year, like you would with physical education. Though I think with the obesity epidemic going on in Alabama, PE should be a 4 year deal in high school. I think having students somewhere between 6th and 12th grade take a class in meteorology, understanding weather maps, understanding forecasts,learning how to read a weather map,knowing where you live on a radar feed of your area,knowing what to look for as far as a debris signature, even understanding wind sheer, how to understand how the gate to gate sheer can help you know that a tornado is possible. I taught my kids all of that. Especially knowing where you are at when you see a particular storm or line of storms is heading their way. I taught em how to recognize a super cell thunderstorm from a squall line. What a mesoscale convective system is, what a mesocyclone is, even how hurricanes form, how freezing rain occurs, sleet, and snow. I watched a video about Etowah county talking about eliminating the tornado warning sirens, snd and Im like "Are you crazy?!?!" I am very weather educated, and know exactly what I am lookinh for. But when I hear those WW1, WW2 air raid sirens, or in some counties cases, hearing a siren then you hear "WARNING, WARNING! THERE HAS BEEN A TORNADO DETECTED IN YOUR AREA. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! " When.I hear that sound, my adrenaline goes nuts. Even If I know that the storm is going to be north, south, or it's only radar indicated and I see nothing that would concern me. I still become alert when I hear that sound. And another reason I feel it would be necessary for students to be educated in weather awareness is because of too many people getting upset because James Spann, or in my NWS area in North Ala with Brad Travis having to break into that reality show, soap opera, sports event, or whatever people feel is more important than idk, THE POSSIBILITY OF DEATH! Whatever you know! If you wanna take that chance then by all means just watch online streaming of whatever you wanna watch. But I be damned if you try and have a weatherman prohibited from interrupting your stupid show, or game. (I love Alabama football, Basketball,Baseball,Softball, whatever, but I want to be alerted if I dont have my phone handy, or charging) Anyway, I'll stop cryin and being a ding a ling now! Just someone in the meteorology community please make it more known that the great plains is not the only hotspot for tornadoes. If anything the southeast should be the spot that is most problematic.
June 2022, looking at Google maps, the Hampton Inn is still there and just left in its ruined state.
I woke up in the middle of the tornado warning alert on my radios yes radios
Jacket comes off at 6:35. If you know you know.
Looks like 2021 is going to be an interesting year for tornadoes.
Missouri kc side is waaaay overdue for ef4-ef5. Our time is this year. Birmingham gets hit joplin got hit. Birmingham area got hit this year.... yeaaaa
La Nina is here! Hope so
and it is
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I remember watching this coverage around when the circulation was near clay I believe.
Another legendary day of coverage by the 🐐 James Spann. This will be a repeat of 2011 as far as large scale long track tornadoes come May.
Much respect for James Spann, I’m from the Phenix City, AL /Columbus,GA Area and we got good Meteorologist down here, but he he the damn greatest in both Alabama and Georgia
@Chandler Hazen: Did you know on March 14, 2008, when the tornado hit downtown Atlanta during a SEC basketball game in the Georgia Dome between Alabama and Mississippi State? The announcers of the game while on air said they had received a called from James Spann of Birmingham.
When your echo dot doesn’t alert you
I like Taylor but she sure likes those white circles and doodles. I would prefer less mess on the screen, but that’s me. They still do an awesome job with information and only ones I watch.
The circles she draws like at 10:21 are to more clearly indicate the specific feature on radar. It’s difficult otherwise to know what exactly is the area of interest.
Oh my!!! This looks scary. I experienced the snowstorm
Oh no his coat is off !
literally passed a few miles from my house in Springville
The iconic n ageless james polygon spaan. A true american hero
James Spann is the 🐐 of severe weather meteorologists
Close your eyes and tell me he doesn’t sound like Chris Hansen lol
Spann is a life saver
Spann the man!!!
what was the EF scale rating on fultondale tornado
I think it was an EF3
He has on a suit.
What I want is the Wind in my heart ❤
i live in fultondale it hit were i live
Me and my mom love your videos
EMERGENCY WARNING SYSTEM
Pray for the people in that area!
Soneone likes to draw
Tornado. Som
I hope you be safe