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You can tell it's a Wednesday. Look at all those churches closed for Wednesday eve prayer meeting/midweek services/youth group. What an awful, awful day. 🥲😢🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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That's my son's birthday 😔.. sorry for the lives lost 😞

I grew up with James Spann and lived through countless tornadoes in the 90s and 2000s, but this day is why I will never not take any tornado outbreak seriously for the rest of my life.

Who remembers how tropical it felt that day in Alabama?? Crazy wind sheer, so humid, so warm it felt like a summer day at the beach.

I will never forget this broadcast. When we saw the tornado in full view down in Tuscaloosa, I became nauseous. I had never never seen a tornado live, and in our state. Our state had so many tornadoes that day. We walked across street to our neighbors basement. This was before the polygon warnings, I believe. So we all went to cover. We were hit by the morning storm that day. So our power came from limited via generator. When we hear James Spann, still calm, but serious, it is gripping. You know it is time to get to your safe place. This man knows Alabama like the back of his hand. James and Jason got us through the trek of the tornado that came from Tuscaloosa. It was an unforgettable day. God bless all those we lost that day. Spring is wild around here and fall, at times. We are so lucky to have you, James Spann.

Great work.

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A man that went outside his coverage region

Hi James I would like to know what a Rouge thunderstorm is

Look I never understood this. I realize a tornado can be unpredictable. But why would I stop my car and run into a building that's in the path of the tornado to take cover, when I could just drive completely out of the way and watch the tornado from a distance?? It makes no sense. If the tornado was right on top of me, and took me by surprise, that's a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT story. But if it's a mile or two away from me and I'm traveling in front of it, I'm turning away in a perpendicular direction. You can see the direction it's heading, or listen to news coverage like on here. If the storm is getting bigger and looks like it's standing still, it's head towards you. But if you see it, and it CLEARLY shows it going left or right to you. Just drive out of the way. Why wait 10 or 15 mins for it to be right on top of you? If you're lucky enough to hear the warnings early, react to your circumstances (traffic jam, open road, in a safe place already, building, home, storm shelter, etc). If I'm already in my car, and know it's coming but it's not on top of me, I'm not pulling over at the next exit and running inside a gas station. I'm getting off at the next exit and turning away from the storm and putting as much distance between me an that tornado as possible.

72 degree dew point at 5pm. Oh man.

Spann is a hero.

Was sitting in my aunts storm shelter in Childersburg watching this and listening to the NOAA weather radio. Fortunately, we didn't get a tornado. But we were definitely on our toes that day. Ironically, my aunt lived there for over 40 years, and that was the first, and last time, she used her backyard storm shelter.

I remember this day perfectly. I was 13 years old, eating at Deerman’s BBQ in Adamsville, just north of Birmingham. I remember seeing the tornado on tv and I got sick to my stomach. I couldn’t finish my food and I nearly threw up when I saw this tornado live as it tore through Tuscaloosa.

I just knew the Dora tornado was gonna come our way in corner we got lucky

Absolute legend

Pop's be sayin what be takin fo granted, pop's saved ALOT of brotha's and sistas that day

Respect. The. Polygon.

James Spann is a legend in this outbreak

I stole some bad Uces

Glad I waited till Lou Holtz was gone to stop watching college football.

It's strange, in this video they say nobody should be driving, and when these monster tornados hit in Oklahoma, they actually tell people to drive away from them if they don't have proper shelter like a cellar, basement or safe room.

7 ef4 tornados all forming within 5 & 1/2 hours

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All those Baptist church cancellations on the bar below. Where I live (Louisville), there would be a diversity of churches closed (including Baptist) as well as Catholic church bingos.

The way the horizontal vortices reach out of the tornado like it’s alive and has a mind of its own… so eerie

I remember watching this live mortified. I live I Birmingham and was a highschool senior that year . We had literal debris in Birmingham that had mail that was from Tuscaloosa and paperwork and whatnot that made its way all the way to Birmingham. We all talked about how nuts it was that literal mail addressed to Tuscaloosa residents landed in the yards of suburbs in Birmingham....

April 27, 2011 was a total day of HELL in central and north Alabama. The BEST meteorologists in the country are in Birmingham and Huntsville, Alabama. Thank you so much for saving so many thousands of lives on that day.

James Spann is an absolute hero to us here in the Birmingham Metro area! He will damn near tell you the addresses where the tornadoes are!

I should have got in the weather business. I've been fascinated with weather since I was a kid going through my first hurricane

Wasn't this tornado eventually classified as an EF-5?

This tornado picked up a 4,000 ton train bridge and tossed it 100 feet definitely an EF-5

garlagan approved

the skycam went out because of the power flash (it knocked the power out ofc)

A day I’ll NEVER forget. I remember standing on the balcony of my apartment on the west side of town looking at how huge it was as it shredded south Tuscaloosa, when I couldn’t see it anymore I got in my car and drove to the rosedale/10th avenue area and was in awe of all the destruction it caused. Homes and apartments complexes destroyed, totaled cars everywhere, people crying, screaming, bleeding, dead everywhere. It was like I was standing in the middle of where a war had just taken place, not knowing that this was just a portion of the damage throughout the city. RIP to all the lives Lost on this unforgettable day.

Some days you never forget. This was one. Unfortunately, many did not make it past this day. PS: James Spann is an absolute legend

Watching this almost 11yrs later still makes me nauseous and gives me chills. I helped in Hackleburg/Phil Campbell after they were hit that day. It was devastating

Can we vote James Spann for President and Jason Simpson for Vice President?

9:32 This EF4 tornado in Tuscaloosa looks very similar to the F4 tornado in Worcester MA from June 9 1953

Radar tower: yup. Way too close. *proceeds to steal lines from pecos hank*

A muti vortice tornado will tear things apart and is super dangerous for damage path and kills people with suction and more than one vortices funnels

When James Spann can’t believe what he’s seeing, be afraid, be very afraid. “Are you kiddin’ me?” If you ever hear that know that the situation is dire.

Dude said get off the highway and get ti a gas station..WHAT?? uhh i aint going anywhere near anything EXPLOSIVE during a tornado emergency...fyi i just moved to tuscaloosa...wish me luck!

James spann weather master

I still get chills 10+ years later.

Historical Words by James Spann: There goes the sky cam. 9:38 Goodness gracious. This will be a day that will go down in state history. 7:16 And all we have to do is to pray for those people. 7:23

Kodoos ❤️

So my mom and her mom we about to get hit but it turned then back in 2000 it suck my. Mom up and put her down and she is safe tho

this tornado should of been rated an ef5 cause there were some ef5 damage in its path.