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.

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"

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.

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.

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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

I live in PA but I want to be a meteorologist when I’m older, and he’s the best to learn from

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.

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

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

@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

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

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

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

@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.

Maybe this will teach you to listen to the polygon! Nothing’s worse than Cartman with a polygon.

@T.J. Anthony lol time to analyze the Tornadoe 🌪

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....

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

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

Mississippi Alabama and Tennessee are a second tornado alley called Dixie Alley. Similar amount of serious tornadoes

Yes

I’m glad he’s still at it!

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

@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.

I think it was an EF3

Not yet soon though

Not until April 27 but close... It's hard to believe it's been 10 years

@@peachxtaehyung yeah

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

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.

What are you talking about

No

@@Weathernovi someone told there was a tornado

Ok

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.