Tornado damage in Tuscaloosa County

September 25, 2005, 4:39 pm
Posted by David Black in General Thoughts
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Damage reported by a dramatic afternoon tornado that hit western Tuscaloosa County and which was caught on camera by ABC 33/40's TowerCam...viewers were treated to a live view of the tornado as it moved northeast across northern Tuscaloosa county. The tornado remained on the ground for nearly 15 minutes.

Possible injuries were reported at the Hilltop Trailer Park on McAlister Rd. in Buhl.

Lots of viewers are sending in digital pictures of the tornado...

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Posted by Clay  
on September 25, 2005, 4:44 pm
Hopefully someone will post those pics somewhere on the ABC website???

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Posted by Margie Richardson - Rainbow City  
on September 25, 2005, 5:02 pm
Waiting .....and watching for rain :) Not a drop here yet!

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Posted by   www
on September 25, 2005, 5:04 pm
All is well in Eutaw.........so far. We plan to attend your Storm Alert XTREME seminar in October.

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Posted by  
on September 25, 2005, 5:08 pm
ANYONE got a link to pics? PLEASE?

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Posted by  
on September 25, 2005, 5:25 pm
I am VERY disappointed in my local news coverage. I live in Dallas county and WSFA channel 12 and WAKA channel 8 is NOT covering this! WHERE is Chris Baily or Rich Thomas? WHY ARE THEY NOT ON THE AIR COVERING THIS? I can't pick up James Spann. I'm having to scrounge and get all my info. online and listen to a live coverage on radio which is breaking up on me bc it's not in my immediate listening area.

I tried to email WSFA to tell them to cover it or at least tell them how disappointed I am, but you have to register...

TUSCALOOSA still not safe....MULTIPLE reports of funnel clouds in and around Tuscaloosa.

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Posted by   www
on September 25, 2005, 5:33 pm
Maddy - go to http://www.abc3340.com/weather/ and click on Forums. Lots of info posted there.

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Posted by dr  
on September 25, 2005, 5:36 pm
What about Lamar County.... a tornado warning and all we hear is Tuscaloosa County, Tuscaloosa County..... what gives

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Posted by Anonymous  
on September 25, 2005, 6:37 pm
No warnings in the Montgomery market... that's why there is no coverage.

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Posted by Sherry  
on September 25, 2005, 5:41 pm
Please tell James to stop apologizing for being on the air. The weather has been PRIME TIME the past month or so. Hats off to great coverage guys! Keep up the good work.

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Posted by  
on September 25, 2005, 5:50 pm
Lezlee- THANKS so much!

James your veiwing audience is so lucky to have you. No one in my area feels the need to report it and I have relatives there. Keep up the good work!

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Posted by  
on September 25, 2005, 5:51 pm
Hey Sherry I agree with you 100% this is far more important than some tv show.

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Posted by Unknown  
on September 25, 2005, 5:52 pm
I think he knows that Desperate Housewives comes on tonight and he will have lots of pissed people.... And what did people think about the explicitive when the tornado was on tower cam

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Posted by tara  
on September 25, 2005, 6:01 pm
I thought it was awesome coverage and it showed the excitement of the moment! The fact that there was an excitable word used just shows that they are 'real people' too....(but i'm sure the hypocrites in this state that 'never' say those kind of words will try to cause CRAP...)

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Posted by  
on September 25, 2005, 5:58 pm
I'm sure that 33/40 is going to work something out. Maybe ABC can postpone the season premiere a week if push comes to shove.

I still can't understand why 33/40 doesn't work something out with ABC, since they've had this policy so long.



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Posted by dave  
on September 25, 2005, 6:16 pm
I wonder Why they cannot just tape the live version and just play it delayed....then catch up later on in the night. Just like they do after a ball game, they never know exactly when the game will be over.


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Posted by John T.  
on September 25, 2005, 6:46 pm
Another SUPERB job gentlemen! Again you all were THE only station to have "wall to wall" coverage the WHOLE time. We are lucky & fortunate to have a news station that has a policy like this and gives a darn. My hat off to you James & John. Excellant coverage to have so much going on at one time and to be able to prioritize.

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Posted by  
on September 25, 2005, 7:39 pm
Great Job Guys! I wonder how this Tornado that was caught on the Towerlink will be rated in the F-Scale. To me it looked like a F1-F2 Range, but I'm not a trained person like the NWS. But you would thiink that since there was damaga and people was hurt that it could very well be at least on the upper end of a F1. What does everyone think?



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