3/13/06 DISC: Alabama Tornadoes

[Brett Adair]

BMX is out doing some surveys of the Alabama tornadoes of last evening. After reading through the rules pretty thoroughly I think I can post this here. There are several Alabamians that were able to photograph, get video, or take radar grabs of these long track supercells as they traveled along a narrow instability axis across Alabama. I will post up some links of a few here.

Here is a radar Grab of the storm as it went through southern Cullman and Blount Counties in Alabama.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a120/weatherop/TornadopastBluntSprings.gif

These are the images that Greg Caudle captured of the storms as it was headed his way. A tornado was on the ground as the storm crossed Interstate 65 and produced a good amount of damage.

http://www.wecre8.com/weather/March13thTOR/

Now a photo graph of the SAME long track supercell with a tornado on the ground as it crossed the MS/AL line into Lamar County, AL near Vernon. The following pictures are via Alabama's ABC33/40 and it's viewers.

http://www.jamesspann.com/Tornadoes_March_13/lamar1_550.jpg

A photo of the torando crossing Interstate-65.

http://www.jamesspann.com/Tornadoes_March_13/i65_550.jpg

Torando on the ground passing north of Jasper..

http://www.jamesspann.com/Tornadoes_March_13/jasper2_550.jpg

Tornado moving across eastern Walker County.

http://www.jamesspann.com/Tornadoes_March_13/unknown_550.jpg

It will definately be a long day for the BMX storm survey team.

[Bill Hark]

Thanks for the images. Do you know if the images are video stills or actual photos? I'm looking for video of that event.

Bill Hark

[Brett Adair]

Most of them are images. I do believe that there may be some videos out there, but it will probably take a few days before most are brought to the surface. I will check on that, Bill.

[Andy Kula]

Most of them are images. I do believe that there may be some videos out there, but it will probably take a few days before most are brought to the surface. I will check on that, Bill.
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One of our storm spotters here out of NWS Huntsville has some video near I-65 in Cullman County from last evening. I'll get to see it tomorrow. Brett, I think it is being shown tonight on WAAY 31 TV, but not sure if you can receive that broadcast from your locale.

If I see anything interesting, I'll let you both know.

Andy

[Brett Adair]

One of our storm spotters here out of NWS Huntsville has some video near I-65 in Cullman County from last evening. I'll get to see it tomorrow. Brett, I think it is being shown tonight on WAAY 31 TV, but not sure if you can receive that broadcast from your locale.

If I see anything interesting, I'll let you both know.

Andy
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Thanks a ton, Andy. How are those storm spotter classes going? Also, check your YIM. :)

[Tony Lyza]

To be quite honest, when I saw that last picture, it immediately reminded me of the Petersburg, IN, F4 of 6/2/90, with the overall appearance of the funnel (comparing to the TVC II video).