ABC 33/40 Severe Weather Coverage (Part 2) - April 12, 2020

[@jdweatherman74]

When you get called LEGENDARY by the LEGEND James Spann, the humility confidence level is “off the charts”. Thanks for all you do, Mr. John Brown. Respectfully, jdweatherman74 (Weather Nerd/Enthusiast from Atlanta, GA)

[@GraceCase]

I watch these things on KZbin to help with me severe weather anxiety. We had a local meteorologist (who has now moved on to a national channel, bless his heart) who I lovingly called my storm Xanax because he was informative but calm. This man is the same. I just have to give him a shout out for keeping people safe but being a calm, steady rock while he does it.

[@janblackman6204]

I’m the same way. I have been terrified of severe weather since my first child was born. I won’t go anywhere If severe weather is forecast

[@jacoblawrence7235]

My favorite meteorologist is James Spann and still is but other networks were already giving word on the Carbon Hill tornado at the beginning. I was literally going back and forth with my wife we live in Carbon Hill and was hit directly with the tornado my wife was saying another network was already saying that there was a tornado threat with the storm and to seek shelter I yelled back to her James is saying nothing by the time James came on the air and stated that there was a tornado he said it was near I22 we where already looking at a tree on our car a neighbors roof in our yard. Still think James is the best but I have to give credit where credit is due and now my wife won't let me here the end of it.

[@LillaVya]

It's likely we see him in his suspenders again tomorrow

[@RockinJason360Productions]

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[@oma2635]

*#🔐🦓🥑

[@dragoninesschannel1212]

I was and Jefferson county and the tornado was coming at us but it just disappeared 🤨

[@dragoninesschannel1212]

And I was and my house

[@Manning_Yost1820]

Great video. Love from Homewood AL

[@DEER_HUNTER48429]

I was in the house where the barn was destroyed, lost the back screen door on the house. The shed on the side of the house was lifted off it's footings and slammed into a telephone pole which cracked it. I have pictures of the damage to all of it. This was terrifying as all hell, but i was in a inter closet of a brick house, Formerly From MIchigan.

[@jerryeubanks491]

Dutch more info GPS location was. 34° 18' 54.N 118° 33' 51" W It was called a gas leak / blowout Wikipedia has a large article on it called Aliso canyon gas leak

[@denelson83]

Were you broadcasting this from your house, James? WO4W DE VE7NDE

[@peachxtaehyung]

No he goes to the station when severe weather is forecast

[@saraphinn]

Legends.

[@StaceyGlover77]

I miss Christopher Sign. 😪

[@user-gm6zn9qx3u]

Why do you have to get out of a mobile home my new stations don't say that

[@user-gm6zn9qx3u]

Counties are big Tornados are small

[@annedavis3340]

Sorry you didn't get a reply faster. It is because mobile homes and trailers are both thrown or destroyed easier than a site-built home with walls attached to the foundation. It's kinda sad listening to coverage about EF0 and EF1 tornados that only killed people in mobile homes, (to be clear, I am not sad more people didn't die, but mobile home deaths are avoidable in a way ones where people were in a sturdier structure are less avoidable. We've known this one for a long time, and many precious people still have no idea. If that makes sense.) "In fact, of the 104 tornado fatalities in 2021, 23 were in manufactured homes, according to NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center. In 2020, 39 of the 76 tornado deaths that year were in manufactured homes. Through Nov. 30 of this year, more than half of tornado deaths - 13 out of 22 - happened in manufactured homes. That's a lot, especially when you consider that only about 6% of the housing stock in the U.S. is made up of manufactured homes." -- weather dot com (discussing mobile/manufactured homes) I'll cut to the chase to save a reader's life, but I did work on the rest of it, so please do stick around after it: *REALLY the best thing to do is go to the nearest site-built structure, or, if the trailer park has one, the site's storm shelter. Or a neighbor who has a non-mobile-home house. Even something like a gas station will be better.* As counterintuitive as this will sound, it's actually safer for you to lie in a ditch outside your mobile home than be in a mobile home when there's a tornado, because the walls of the mobile home have more surface area for the tornados to push, and behave like sails on a sailboat. They've been picked up and thrown absolutely remarkable distances. If you don't want to trust a random person on KZbin, FEMA . gov has a pdf about tornados and mobile homes. *If you're driving pull over at a business and go in, do so at a rest stop if you're on a highway. And, again, get into a ditch if you ran out of time to do that* I do realize that the idea of lying on the ground outside with no shelter seems worse. And yes there will still be a chance of debris flying, BUT you're just not going to be trapped in something that is likely to end up rolling and rolling and rolling. People get killed in rollover car crashes, and people get killed in rollover mobile homes in these events. That should explain a little better. But mobile homes ALSO get picked up and thrown as well. But yes they're absolutely a much more dangerous option than a site-built location, and the fact Spann (and other meteorologists, I can think of Matt Laubhan right off the top of my head, do check him out, he is great) mentions them specifically is a testament to the quality of his channel vs whatever others you're using as a baseline (there is no offense intended there, possibly your favorites do know as well and get focused on other things when under the stress of serious tornado coverage, I merely hope it'll be a thing you're paying attention for when you run across other people's coverage, it goes to how they've consulted actual research papers to learn how best to keep their viewers safe). There is absolutely a strong basis, studied, to back this up. Wearing helmets are important too, even for adults, even if you think you look funny sitting in a bathroom in a bike or motorcycle helmet 😊 I know this was a lot, but that was a very good question, I hope I was able to help :) This was probably a bit of an infodump, but there's always a chance someone reading this comment may face a tornado themselves someday, and any life we can save is so worth it, isn't it? 😊 Have a great week

[@mforrest85]

Tornadoes can easily destroy a mobile home. Mobile homes are not secured to the ground that well so it wouldn't think that big of a tornado to pick one up.

[@joshgalka9414]

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