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Severe WX Severe Weather Threat 3/14-3/16

tornado examiner said:
Are there any major discrepancies from this event compared to April 27 2011?
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I can’t tell you synoptically. But from memory, the morning line was significantly worse than this one has been. I can’t tell you anything else until after this stuff has passed the state later today. I was a few miles from the Tuscaloosa tornado when it hit, it’s not a day anyone likes remembering really.
 
tornado examiner said:
Are there any major discrepancies from this event compared to April 27 2011?
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The morning round is different than 4/27. On that day, the first round had embedded tornadoes, very strong straight-line winds and did lots of damage and knocked out power for many. So far, so good this morning.
 
Chris3024 said:
This lightning is something else in cullman
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Here's a view of the lighting as it passed over my house a little to your west. It was a little more intense a couple of minutes earlier, but I was a little too slow to catch that.

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Bama Ravens said:
Yeah, I’m watching and just heard that, too. Not at all normal for him to say something like that.
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He also said, "This is Weather Brains not Corndog Brains" a little bit earlier. It made me laugh and I felt a little better.
 
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MichelleH said:
The morning round is different than 4/27. On that day, the first round had embedded tornadoes, very strong straight-line winds and did lots of damage and knocked out power for many. So far, so good this morning.
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Spann has always said over the years that the morning round is always a sign of how bad the later round will be. Maybe this is a good sign.
 
MichelleH said:
So, my son informed me this morning that one of his friends said that Spann referenced April 3, 1974 yesterday in regards to today's threat. Does anyone know where I can read/watch that, because I don't quite believe it. Nicholas asked his friend, "do you know what April '74 is?" He said yes and asked him, "do you?" My son laughed. Turns out he does listen (sometimes).
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My house was being built at that time, and was hit by the F4 as it passed through Brushy Pond. It was not finished, but it survived. My great-grandfather lived across the road and his house was torn in half. A lot of the community was devastated. Seeing all of that is one of my earliest and most vivid weather related memories. Unfortunately, we are in one of those places that has gotten hit repeatedly. It makes days like today especially nerve wracking.
 
SPC Storm Reports thus far: 25 Tornadoes, 330 damaging wind, and 175 large hail. Total of 530 reports.
 
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