@@davidionita5610 He learned something. Also the word bad is an understatement You never want to hear a meteorologist says" I never knew the number went that high"
The best part about Jason and James along with other top meteorologists is their knowledge of specific structures and buildings even dates when a specific building was built like a church and not just naming off Cities and County Roads which many people may not be familiar with.
I did as much as I knew was available. There might have been some time where there were interruptions, but this is all the available footage I know exists in the wild. I appreciate it... this was a historic day. Ohio gets a few tornadoes (where I live) but I haven't seen anything this bad here since the 1974 outbreak (way before my time). Maybe that Dayton tornado a few years back.
I'm copying here the "notable timestamps" comment from user James Polding on the v2 video, plus some others from the same thread. 1:37 - James and Jason check the Jasper supercell (which will develop the Cullman tornado) and notice the STP is >10 for the first time ever 9:07 - First Tornado Warning for both the day and the Cullman tornado 40:00 - Cullman EF4 tornado touches down west of town (per NWS) 41:24 - Cullman tower cam feed begins 56:36 - Tornado hits downtown Cullman 1:05:00 - Hackleburg EF5 tornado touches down (per NWS), tornado warning for Marion Co. is first acknowledged at 1:06:02 1:28:36 - Cullman Co. EMA representative interview 1:40:00 - Cordova EF4 tornado touches down (per NWS) 1:45:45 - "FIFTEEN POINT THREE" STP from the Cordova tornado 1:56:19 - Smithville, MS EF5 approaches Alabama border 2:24:50 - 17.5 STP from the Cordova tornado 2:31:31 - "SSSSEVENTEEN POINT ONE" STP from the Cordova tornado 2:43:00 - Tuscaloosa-Birmingham EF4 tornado touches down (per NWS) 2:46:29 - Brian Peters calls in spotting Cordova tornado from I-22 2:49:34 - John Oldshue's live stream shows large tornado in Knoxville 2:58:27 - Tuscaloosa tornado skycam feed (tornado becomes visible eight minutes later) 3:07:07 - "All you can do is pray for those people" - tornado is tearing through Tuscaloosa 3:10:00 - Haleyville EF3 tornado touches down (per NWS) - acknowledged five minutes later on TV 3:23:50 - Skycam shows second tornado trying to form northwest of Tuscaloosa 3:29:07 - Diane Carroll (DCH Regional Medical Tuscaloosa) interview. Eoline EF3 tornado touches down (per NWS) 3:41:12 - Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox interview 3:44:16 - Tornado approaches Birmingham metro 3:49:45 - "Constant roar" 3:50:00 - Cordova tornado lifts northeast of Blountsville (per NWS) 4:04:57 - Downtown traffic camera feed of the Birmingham tornado 4:06:00 - Hubbertville EF3 touches down in Fayette Co. (per NWS). This particular storm is neglected even when looking at the big picture, until 4:29:26 when the tornado has already dissipated 4:14:00 - Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado lifts by Center Point (per NWS) 4:24:18 - Wall cloud passes directly over Trussville skycam 4:28:00 - Ohatchee EF4 tornado touches down at Argo (per NWS) 4:55:00 - Eoline tornado lifts just as it enters Shelby County (spin-up risk proceeds in coverage as rotation approaches I-65) 5:10:06 - Isaiah Harper reports from Tuscaloosa 5:22:02 - Mark Kelly (Jefferson Co. EMA) interview 5:34:18 - Honora Gathings reports from Pleasant Grove 5:45:32 - Ohatchee tornado moves into Georgia. Enterprise, MS EF4 tornado approaches portions of Marengo Co. 5:54:00 - James reports that NWS Birmingham has taken shelter because of circulation over Shelby Co. Airport (the issuance of warnings is handed over to NWS Atlanta but communication is handled by NWS Mobile) 6:21:52 - Tornadic rotation from the Lake Martin EF4 gets noted and confirmed a few moments later 7:09:13 - Volunteer Firefighter Joseph Knight calls from Hackleburg 7:16:35 - Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley interview 7:42:12 - Around this time, the last tornado in Alabama is forming and will touch down south of Clanton for two minutes 8:10:51 - Binnie Myles (Birmingham Wather Works) interview 8:12:43 - Weather coverage transitions into nightly news
Couple Missing points 30:00- Philadelphia EF5 touches down a couple miles NNE of Philadelphia,MS (according to NWS) 2:42:00- Smithville tornado touches down 4:19:00 - Rainsville EF5 touches down southwest of Fyffe, AL
You know how bad this storm was going to be when he looked at the Significant tornado index and it read at 12.6 and went “Never seen that before” the shock on his face. Even he looked worried for a minute.
You know he wrote a book about this event, it bothered him so much. I keep meaning to read it because this coverage was about the best I've ever seen. A lot of people still died, but wow ... the way he catches every storm and doesn't forget anybody and stays so calm ... wonder what was really going through his mind during all this. This coverage is amazing.
@@kaylamarie5168 also when the first Tornado of the outbreak is an F5 that digs 2 ft trenches in the ground. This outbreak didn’t just hit the ground running. It shot out of a cannon.
That's the main tornado outbreak I will never ever forget. That tracked toward Eastern Tennessee during the afternoon and evening with so many tornado warnings going off all over the place that spawned 57 tornadoes throughout the area under the moderate risk of severe weather
@@alexkemp7645 I live in Alabama. I happened to be in DC on a field trip when it happened. I had no idea what happened until I got to the hotel room that night. Luckily my family was spared the worst of it. I’ll never forget that April. Not even two weeks before that we had “the Forgotten Outbreak.” That one wasn’t as significant but it was definitely a high impact event as well. Three people were killed a few miles from our house that night
There are still 9 minutes missing unfortunately (it cuts out at 8:45 pm (6:45:44) and rejoins at 8:54 pm). But I suppose 9 minutes out of 9 and a half hours isn't much to complain about.
I live in Bristol Tennessee. I will NEVER forget this night as long as i live. We NEVER Have Tornadoes around here but that night, we sure did. A strong EF3 hit about 20 mins up the road from where i lived. It killed 5 people. Just unbelievable night. All those Supercells made it all the way to where i live was just crazy! Hope everyone down there are doing good today, and God Bless the ones who didnt. 😞
Man this was just pure evil, morning storms, no power, inferior technology back then (no correlation coefficient) and all I can say to anyone who was too young to remember this is that there were literally tornadoes everywhere!
No CC but debris balls still evident on reflectivity in some cases. Imagine if this was the mid 80s when there wasn't wall to wall coverage and no Doppler. Just reflectivity
@@lordmatthewanunnahybrid1356I think I would say the Mayfield Kentucky is the GOAT in terms of SUSTAINED power given that we lasted for nearly 200 MILES!!!
This supercell dropped 4 Violent Tornadoes. 2-F4’s and 2-F5’s and it kept dropping Tornadoes all the way into Virginia. 5:30 is when the first F5 Tornado Roars to Life is Philadelphia,MS part of this infamous Supercell. And it was on from there.
Where was the second EF5? I thought it was Philadelphia EF5, then Tuscaloosa/Birmingham EF4+, then Ohatchee/Piedmont EF4. I say EF4+ for Tuscaloosa/Birmingham because I still think this was at some point an EF5.
Part of what makes James Spann so good to me that I hear SO MUCH from him is when there's an emergency like this, he gives basic, simple landmarks in the area that the people that live there should be aware of eg: "This is approaching the doodad production factory here on alabama route 18" etc etc. To be able to know where everything is to this degree isn't only impressive but it no doubt saved lives that day.
At the 3:00:00 mark is the Tuscaloosa tornado. Many many lives were lost or changed forever before this time. James kept talking about April 3,1974 not knowing this event would be the new Super Outbreak. I know he says every 40 years or so there is one. Hopefully nothing that would compare to either Super Outbreak. I'm sure it's been mentioned but not even 2 weeks before there was an Outbreak that could have easily gone down in history but was all but forgotten because of April 27th and then the Joplin tornado shortly after. And for those saying why does he say violent and make a joke out of it... Most tornadoes are weak and short lived. Every tornado on this day was long lived, long track, destructive, and deadly. Hence violent tornadoes
1:20:15 -- "The Hackleburg/Phil Campbell EF5" On the radar, said tornado is minutes away from producing its first of MANY EF5 damage indicators (Approximately 3-4 miles SW of Hackleburg, AL, center -- on the east side of U.S. Hwy 43.)
What was even more incredible is how it kept producing consistent F5 Damage for a long period of time. I call this one the modern day Tri State Tornado. Its appearance being rain wrapped looks just like what Tri State was.
Good job! Thank you for the video. Is the missing segment of the morning round of storms while Jason Simpson went on the air or after? Just curious. What a day.
I always thought that Hackleburg was rarely mentioned for it being in the direct path of a nasty nasty supercell… I don’t think I would have unterstood the severity of my situation if I looked at that broadcast out of hackleburg
Hey! so glad to see 2:15 to 2:30pm added to the entire 9 hour block. Thank you for this. But, the audio's volume is too low. Not now, but in the future could you fix that for us please?
I might try again. I wanna get this right for historical purposes. I can source more from the official upload I think. That said, some of the sources are not the best quality - especially the segment with Hackleburg-Phil Campbell's tornado being discussed. So I'm at the mercy of a bunch of different audio sources. I appreciate the feedback!
@@TheWaffleArchives you can equalize all the audio in most video editing software, or you can separate the audio and use an audio editor. If you don’t, maybe I’ll give it a shot.
I have tried to balance the audio a bit more. I used a different program this time and tried to normalize the audio the best I could. Some of the footage (like the VHS captured footage) was not of the best quality, but it is at least consistently louder across the board. Listened to this footage over the past week as I worked on it. Check out the new upload I just posted.
@@zachsteiner I did try another attempt at it, using a different program and re-cutting from as much of the official upload as possible. I also ran some normalization filters and cleanup of the audio. If the audio can be mastered better, by all means. I've been working on this project for the better part for a decade now.
@@TheWaffleArchives Just the fact that you took the time to re-edit a 9 hour video shows how much you care about this channel and the people that come here. You now have the only page that has preserved the entire outbreak from beginning to end of 33/40's coverage. And...The audio mix is perfect. Right where it needs to be. Fantastic Job!
*NINE HOURS.* What's the record? D: "Wow. I've never seen that before! The significant tornado index is a 12.6!" -IT'S OVER 9,000!!! This video's also on ABC 33/40's official RU-vid, but it's missing the first 18 and a half minutes or so.
Hackleburg touched down at 3:05 CDT and supposing that @pierluigizuin2381 has timestamps to the frame, coverage must have started at 2:00(which seems reasonable)
This video itself is more than 9 hours long. ABC 33/40 specializes in weather coverage. As shown here, it will break into regular programming and go wall to wall with the weather.
I was rlly young when we experienced that- That was the WORSTS storm in history- That's why til this day.. I don't trust storms or even just regular thunderstorms bc they scare me RLLY bad and I be thinking tornadoes is gonna come up so I be VERY cautious- I am SO scared about storms now.. They tell me to calm down don't be scared but I just can't handle my anxiety to storms- I just can't- I hope this never happens again bc that was VERY scary- 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 Edit: I pray for all u guys that made it through it and I pray for the ppl who didn't make it through it.. Thank God it didn't destroy all of Alabama.. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 Let's all get through this together! No matter if we different or not.. We are all united! Family.. Friends.. Teachers.. Closest Friends and Closest Teacher friends.. Cousins.. Siblings.. Everyone! We are all in this together!! ❤
