I was 13. I remember the military being everywhere and the curfew, meals from the military and the Red Cross, and the fairgrounds being full of those FEMA campers, and the health department coming to everyone to administer Tetanus shots, dead animals everywhere and caskets floating out of the cemetery.

James Spann is a God among men.

Its unbelievable to think that thing is just mangling human's to literal pieces while its approaching like that. Screw that shit, I got hit by an EF3 not long ago and just seeing a cloudy sky at night with a bit of wind freaks me out now. Cannot imagine living through one of the April 27th tornadoes.

As someone who was 18 years old on the MS gulf coast when this happened, it's so wild to watch this coverage from almost 20 years ago now. Really bringing back some feelings of what it was like to go through that...

I remember that day😢 Was at the church in alberta The church got demolished...😢

If i got hit by lightning, I'd be in the ICU!⚠️😬

1:00 he was right

My husband and I were in Kure Beach, N.C., when Hurricane Floyd was about to make land fall. Needless to say, we had to cut our trip short and evacuate.😊

Fury of God's anger

That's what God thinks about the University of Alabama - squash Idolatry.

This would be the term destruction

🌪️ He's got the ball

4 I will bring 🌪️ forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof. Zech 5

2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying 🌪️ roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.

THEN I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying 🌪️ roll.

The flying 🌪️ roll

It messed east tarboro up extremely badly. I moved there in 2001 and it was still water marks on some homes. Couldn't believe the tar river could get so high. I stayed on Grandville st right by the river next to princeville. Very sad

Tom won an Emmy for this documentary.

21:25 pov: TIV 2

The music sounds like Hulk-Out sequences on The Incredible Hulk tv series! Dr. David Banner(Bill Bixby) into the Hulk (Lou Ferrigno)!

This was definitely an EF5. No way it was EF-4.

Forgot gurricane gerth the that out to the coast and die down to a tropical and came hit nc as a cat3 or 4 after floyd. My dad said floyd said floyd left because it heard gert coming. My dad name is floyd my cousin name gert

Both

I was in San antonio when it took out a street light Saturday night around 11pm

I love how they all say "tor-na-duh". I love Southern accents. 😊

Wow. I still remember this day if it was yesterday..I rescued so many people in a weeks time I can't count them all..the first two days of the storm was the worst..I don't even want to talk about the rest because it was sad times.. would I do it all over again I would if I had to but I never hope I have to

Oh I’ve never heard them say “The Storm Prediction Center issued a [insert event] watch” before. Always heard NWS.

I remember being so excited at age 5 to meet Dan Satterfield at the Kids Count Expo; he was one of my heroes!

Dude, don’t know how to work his camera very well

Listen to that Thunderbolt siren

I was in full moon bbq so thankful to still be here today

Jesus was a no show .

The lights blinking give it a ominous vibe

I brought the VHS tape in to my 6th grade class, and i was popular for the week for doing so! Thanks Tom Skilling

What a legend 🙏🏼

Zechariah 5 THEN I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold, flying 🌪️ roll. 2 And he said unto me, What thou seest? And I answered, I see a flying 🌪️ roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. 3 Then said he unto me, This 🌪️ is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. 4 I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

I remember that "Jesus helps those who help themselves." Preying for The Dude to help them seems a bit ridiculous, eh?

True and righteous are thy judgments, O Lord.

Is that abc3340 footage I see?

0:51 EAS

RIP Mr.Wilham

They always leave out my beautiful Hancock county Ms. Ground Zero for Katrina. ❤ Hidden Paradise.

They were watching ABC 33/40? I think Huntsville and Birmingham has some of the highest overlap in DMA coverage.

I would say that by the time this hurricane hit Marianna fl it was a cat 3 maybe 4

Just horrible‼️‼️🙏🏼😭😭🙏🏼

Nice video, didn’t have to put up with someone screaming like a little girl about power flashes or inflows, ect.ect.

On this day I was working with my brother on a job in Pinson. We got rained out and went to the office, located in Westend. At home ws my wife and toddler, wife was pregnant with our second. Looking from the office toward our home I called my wife. The sky was as dark as I'd ever seen it. I told my wife to take our litle girl and go to the basement. While we were talking she said the lights just went out. I left the office and headed home. A fire truck passed me at college hills and sped away. I arrived at Cherry Avenue and exited from hiway 78. I had no idea what awaited in just a 14 mile. Nobody had stopped traffic from getting on Cherry. I found myself in the middle of where the storm had passed only 15 or so minutes before. With traffic backing up behind me I couldnt back up. Driving around debris and trees on the road All I could think about was to get home and see about my family. Finally I got to Daniel Payne Drive. There was a power line down across Cherry and I'd seen three cars drive over it, I knew it was dead but a cop pulled up and stopped me. I managed to turn around and head back. It took me over an hour to get back to 78. As I arrived home my brother, who had left the office after me was at our house, he was about to come looking for me, thinking I might have gotten caught in the tornado. It was a very bad day for the folks at Smithfield. Thankfully my family was safe. On a second note I had recently performed some work at a food plant in birmingham and knew a man who worked there, a very nice guy. In the opening of this video you will se the headline that a mother and child were killed. It was the nice guys wife and little girl. The mother had the kids, a girl and a boy, one on either side of her, holding them. The little boy survived.

Did James Earl Jones do voice work for NOAA weather radio? 😂

i know this happened in 99 but watching it just tears at my heart for all these people just catastrophic god bless all of them

This was an insane day. 60% SPC Risk of Tornadoes in parts of Alabama that day. Never have we seen conditions like this. This could have been much much worse.