AND AGAIN, THIS ROTATION WILL BE PASSING SOUTH OF THE CITY OF TUSCALOOSA WHICH IS UP IN THROUGH HERE. WE CAN... I WANT TO LOOK AT TEMPERATURES REAL QUICK. JUST HOW WARM IT IS ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE STATE. IT IS A PRETTY BALMY AFTERNOON. WE'VE GOT SOME SPOTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN THE LOW 70'S OVER HERE. WE'VE GOT 70 AT DEMOP LIST. UPPER 6 #'S FOR UTAH AND TUSCALOOSA. LOW 60'S IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE STATE AS WELL. 60'S IN EAST ALABAMA. THE AIR IS FAIRLY UNSTABLE. THE HIGHER INSTABILITY VALUES ARE HERE. A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6:00 THIS EVENING. THIS IS IN EFFECT FOR JEFFERSON AND SHELBY COUNTIES. BASICALLY, THE BROAD AREA FROM BIRMINGHAM TO MOBILE. IN EFFECT UNTIL 6:00 THIS EVENING. THE COUNTIES IN GREEN HERE, THIS IS THE FLOOD WATCH. THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH. THIS IS VALID THROUGH 9:00 TOMORROW MORNING. WE HAVE THE DUAL THREAT. BIRMINGHAM, SHELBY COUNTY, SOUTHWEST DOWN TOWARD MOBILE. THIS INCLUDES SHILTON, PICKENS, HEAL, SUMPTER, PERRY, CHILTO, AND COUNTIES DOWN TO THE SOUTH. THAT FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. LET'S GO BACK TO THE RADAR. WE ARE HERE FOR ONE REASON. THAT IS A POTENTIAL OR THE NAIL DOE THAT IS ON THE TOM BIGBIE RIVER. EIGHT MILES NORTHWEST OF DEMOPOLIS AS THE CROW FLIES. AGAIN, THIS WILL BE PASSING SOUTH OF TUSCALOOSA IF IT HOLDS TOGETHER. THIS IS U.S. HIGHWAY 43 RIGHT HERE. LET'S DO A STORM TRACK ON THIS THING, TAYLOR. WE WILL DO THE APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIMES OF SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM. AGAIN, THIS WILL GIVE YOU THE IDEA OF WHEN THE GREATEST POTENTIAL OF A TORNADO WOULD BE. UNDERSTAND, IT IS RAINING IN MANY PLACES RIGHT NOW. THIS IS NOT WHEN THE RAIN ARRIVES. THIS IS WHEN A POTENTIAL TORNADO MIGHT ARRIVE. AGAIN, IF THIS STAYS DOWN,. THIS IS A STORM THAT IS GOING TO BE STAYING SOUTH OF UTAH REALLY. AND AGAIN, I WANT TO STRESS IF YOU ARE DRIVING: SOME PEOPLE MIGHT BE LISTENING TO US ON THE RADIO AT THIS POINT. WE DO NOT HAVE ANY ISSUES ALONG INTERSTATE 5920. YOU ARE NOT IN THE POLYGON. WE DON'T WANT FOLKS TO STOP AND PULL OVER. THERE IS NO NEED TO DO. THAT NOW, YOU MIGHT WANT TO DO THAT IF IT IS RAINING HEAVILY. IN TERMS OF THE TORNADO THREAT, THERE IS NO DANGER FROM THIS STORM TO THE HEAVILY TRAFFICKED INTERSTATE 5920 CORRIDOR. THE POLYGON BEGINS BASICALLY ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 11. WE DON'T WANT FOLKS DRIVING ON U.S. 11 OR U.S. HIGHWAY 43 IN WEST ALABAMA. U.S. 11 BASICALLY DEFINES THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE POLYGON. THE POLYGON STRETCHES FROM NEAR KNOXVILLE TO UTAH, DOWN TO SUMPTER COUNTY, DOWN TO THE SOUTH. DOWN BELOW FORKLAND, DOWN TOWARD THE GREEN COUNTY STEAM PLANT. AN ALABAMA POWER COMPANY: A LARGE GENERATING FACILITY THERE ON THE WARRIOR RIVER. AGAIN, THIS IS WARRIOR. THIS IS THE TOM BIGBIE. THAT TORNADIC CIRCULATION IS CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF CROSSING OVER. TAYLOR, ANY DAMAGE REPORTS SO FAR? >> SO FAR, I HAVE BEEN MONITORING DIFFERENT CHAT ROOMS. I HAVE NOT SEEN ANYTHING YET. I KNOW THERE WAS A PERIOD OF TIME WHERE THEY HAD SOME POWER OUTAGES IN YORK. THAT POWER HAS BEEN RESTORED. THIS STORM DOES HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. AT THIS POINT, I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY INDICATION THAT THIS TORNADO IS STILL ON THE GROUND. WE HAVE A WARNING. IT COULD BECOME A STORM THAT IS BACK ON THE GROUND, AGAIN, AS THESE CYCLE. AS JAMES HAS BEEN MENTIONING. >> OKAY, GREAT. AGAIN, WE ARE LOOKING AT ALL THE VARIOUS SOURCES HERE. WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TO MONITOR DURING AN EVENT LIKE THIS. OBVIOUSLY, THE SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES. I WILL SAY THE TORNADO HAS BEEN IN A SITUATION WHERE IT'S IN A FAIRLY SPARSELY POPULATED PART OF THE STATE. OFTEN, IT IS HARD TO GET REPORTS OUT OF THERE. I'M STARTING TO SEE SOME EVIDENCE OF TREES DOWN. WE HAVE HAD REPORTS OF POWER OUTAGES IN YORK. AND AGAIN, I WANT TO STRESS A LOT OF FOLKS MIGHT HAVE STUDENTS , SONS OR DAUGHTERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WEST ALABAMA IN LIVINGSTON. WE HAVE HEARD OF ABSOLUTELY NO DAMAGE FROM THAT CAMPUS. THE TORNADIC CIRCULATION STAYED SOUTH OF THERE TODAY. WHICH IS A GOOD THING. BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE JUST HAD SEEN REPORTS OF TREES DOWN AND POWER OUTAGES. THAT IS THE MAIN ISSUE WITH THE SITUATION TODAY. AND ERIC, I'M GOING TO WARN YOU HERE. I'M GOING TO BE CALLING FOR SOME IMAGES. IN FACT, IF WE CAN DO THAT RIGHT NOW. I WANTED TO SHOW SOME OF THE TREES THAT ARE DOWN. THIS IS NOT TOO FAR FROM U.S. HIGHWAY 80. IN SUMPTER COUNTY. AGAIN, THIS IS EVIDENCE THAT MAYBE WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN IN THAT PART OF THE STATE IN WEST ALABAMA. FESS LET'S GO BACK TO THE RADAR. IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US, IT IS 1:35. WE HAVE A TORNADO WARNING. CURRENTLY IN EFFECT FOR GREEN COUNTY. THE SOUTHERN PART OF GREEN COUNTY. AND THE FAR, FOR A FAR EASTERN PART OF SUMTER COUNTY IN WEST ALABAMA. WE ARE WATCHING CONDITIONS CAREFULLY THIS AFTERNOON. IF YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON, STAY SHELTERED UNTIL WE GIVE YOU THE ALL-CLEAR. THE WARNING FOR GREEN WILL BE IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL 2:15. AND AGAIN, THE TORNADIC CIRCULATION HAS CROSSED OVER THE TOSM TOM BIGBIE. THIS IS THE TOM BIGBIE RIGHT HERE. THIS IS U.S. 4 #. REALLY IN A MATTER OF FIVE MINUTES, THIS CIRCULATION WILL BE CROSSING HIGHWAY 43. THE FORKLAND TOWN HALL SITS RIGHT HERE. THE CIRCULATION PASSING NORTH OF THERE. ABOUT FIVE MILES SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF UTAH. AND AGAIN THAT, WILL CONTINUE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. IF IT HANGS IN THERE, THEN A WARNING COULD BE REQUIRED FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN HALE COUNTY RIGHT HERE. THIS IS WEDGEWORTH. THIS IS GREENSBORO RIGHT HERE. THAT IS ALABAMA HIGHWAY 14. SAWYERVILLE IS RIGHT HERE. THIS IS AKRON. ALABAMA HIGHWAY 60 GOING UP TOWARD HAVANA WHICH IS HERE. I STRESS THIS IS IN A PART OF THE STATE WHERE THE RADAR BEAM IS EXCESSIVELY HIGH. QUITE FRANKLY, WE NEED A RADAR IN MISSISSIPPI. THAT IS SOMETHING WE ARE PUSHING TO GET. BETTER RADAR COVERAGE IN COUNTIES LIKE SUMPTER AND THE LOW TERRAE CAR BEAM, THE BETTER THE CHANCE... IF YOU ARE IN SUMPTER COUNTY, WE WILL GIVE YOU THE ALL-CLEAR FOR SUMPTER. THE CIRCULATION HAS CROSSED THE TOM BIGBY. IT IS EXCLUSIVELY IN GREEN COUNTY. THIS DOES NOT DEMOPOLIS. THIS IS AREA BETWEEN US THE CAN LOO SO AND DEMOPOLIS. NOBODY SHOULD BE IN A MOBILE HOME. YOU SHOULD BE IN A SITE-BUILT STRUCTURE. A COMMUNITY SHELTER. OR A RESTAURANT, SOME TYPE OF BUSINESS THAT IS OPEN 24-7. YOU CAN'T BE IN A MOBILE HOME DURING A TORNADO WARNING LIKE THIS. IF YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON. THE SAME THING FOR VEHICLES. YOU CAN'T BE DRIVING. A CAR IS THE WORST CONCEIVABLE PLACE TO BE. CARS ARE GREAT, BUT NOT IN A TORNADO. A LOT OF FOLKS TRAVEL THIS HIGHWAY EVERY DAY. U.S. 43. YOU JUST... LET'S SAY YOU ARE TRYING TO GO FROM UTAH DOWN TO DEMOPOLIS OR VICE VERSA. YOU NEED TO WAIT. BE PATIENT. WAIT UNTIL THIS THING CROSSES. WE WILL GIVE YOU AN ALL-CLEAR ON HIGHWAY 43 SOON. MOST LIKELY, THIS WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 4 # IN A MATTER OF FOUR OR FIVE MINUTES. NORTH OF THE FORKLAND TOWN HALL HERE. AGAIN, UNDERSTAND THAT THE RADAR BEAM IS FAIRLY HIGH. SOMETIMES STORMS ARE TILTED. THE EXACT LOCATION AT THE SURFACE MIGHT BE DIFFERENT THAN THIS. THAT IS THE REASON WE HAVE THESE POLYGONS TO. ACCOUNT FOR THAT TYPE OF ERROR. IF YOU ARE IN THAT FLASHING RED POLYGON IN SOUTHERN GREEN COUNTY. THIS DOES INCLUDE THE CITY OF UTAH. THIS WILL BE PASSING SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN UTAH. DOWNTOWN UTAH IS RIGHT HERE. STILL WE WANT YOU TO BE IN A SAFE PLACE. EVEN IN UTAH. IF YOU ARE IN THAT POLYGON. RESPECT THE POLYGON. THE TIME NOW IS 1:39. AND IN A MATTER OF MINUTES, WE WILL GET AN UPDATE FROM THE WEATHER SERVICE TO SEE IF THEY WILL BE EXTENDING THE WARNING OVER INTO HALE. AGAIN, TAYLOR WILL DO A STORM-TRACK ON. THIS THESE ARE APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIMES. THIS IS A PRETTY SPARSELY POPULATED PART OF WEST ALABAMA. BUT AGAIN, THESE ARE SOME COMMUNITIES THAT COULD BE IN THE PATH OF THIS. IF THE STORM CONTINUES. AND AGAIN, OVER IN HALE COUNTY, YOU SEE SAWYERVILLE AND WEDGEWORTH, AROUND 20:04 TO #:05. DON'T TAKE THOSE TIMES TO THE EXACT SECOND HERE. WE WANT YOU TO SHELTER WAY BEFORE. THIS DON'T GO OUTSIDE AND LOOK FOR IT. THAT IS HUMAN NATURE. IT MAKES SENSE. WE HAVE LEARNED THAT FROM SCIENTISTS. AS HUMANS, WE WANT TO SEEK CONFIRMATION. YOU SEE THE POLYGONS ON TV. IN A CASE LIKE THIS, THIS THING WILL BE RAIN-WRAPPED. YOU CAN'T SEE YOUR HAND IF YOU STUCK IT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE. IT IS RAINING SO HARD. THIS WOULD BE A RAIN-WRAPPED TORNADO. ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE. DON'T GO OUT AND WASTE YOUR TIME DOING THAT. THERE ARE RARE OCCASIONS WHEN YOU CAN SEE A TORNADO HERE. THIS IS PROBABLY NOT ONE OF THEM. AND AGAIN, THAT IS JUST NOT A WISE THING TO DO. SO AGAIN, IF YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON, PLEASE RESPECT. THAT BE IN A SAFE PLACE. SOON WE WILL KNOW IF THE WEATHER SERVICE WILL EXTEND THIS OVER INTO HALE COUNTY. THE WARNING TECHNICALLY IS SET TO GO UNTIL 2:15 THIS AFTERNOON. AND AGAIN, FE WANT TO STRESS THAT SUMPTER COUNTY, WE WILL GIVE YOU THE ALL-CLEAR. WE HAVE REPORTS OF POWER OUTAGES IN YORK. WE HAVE REPORTS OF TREES DOWN ON COUNTY ROAD 13. YOU SAW THOSE IMAGES EARLIER. SUMPTER COUNTY, COUNTY ROAD 13. NOT TOO FAR FROM U.S. 80. A POSSIBLE TORNADO CROSSED THROUGH THERE. I HAVE HEARD OF NO SPECIFIC DAMAGE OTHER THAN POWER OUTAGES IN YORK. THIS PASTED... THIS PASSED SOUTH OF LIVINGSTON. THIS WAS SOUTH OF THERE. SUMPTER COUNTY WILL GIVE YOU THE ALL-CLEAR. SO WE HAVE A POSSIBLE TORNADO NOW THAT IS DOWN. FROM TIME TO TIME. WE HAVE SEEN EVIDENCE OF DEBRIS BEING LOFTED. WE HAD VIDEOS OF THE TREE IN SUMPTER COUNTY. KEEP IN MIND, WITH THE VOLUME SCAN, WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS PROBABLY ABOUT IN THIS SPOT RIGHT NOW. SO AGAIN, NOBODY SHOULD BE TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 4 # FROM UTAH TO DEMOPOLIS. THE PASSAGE OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD BE CLOSE TO THE TOWN OF FORKLAND. NORTH OF THERE. AGAIN, THAT WILL BE CROSSING THE WARRIOR HERE. THE WAY GREEN COUNTY WORKS ON THE WESTERN SIDE, YOU HAVE THE TOM BIGBIE. ON THE EASTERN SIDE, THE WARRIOR. THE CONFLUENCE IS DOWN AT DEMOPOLIS. IT GOES DOWN TO THE GULF, OF COURSE. AGAIN, THAT WILL BE CROSSING OVER. GREENSBORO IS HERE. MOST LIKELY, THIS WILL BE PASSING NORTH OF GREENSBORO AND SOUTH OF TUSCALOOSA IF IT STAYS DOWN. THE ONE THING ABOUT THIS THAT IS GOOD AS THE TORNADO CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHEAST, IT GETS CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE RADAR AT THE SHELBY COUNTY AIRPORT. THE BEAM HEIGHT IS LOWER AND LOWER. WE WILL GET A BETTER LOW-LEVEL LOOK AT THIS. AS THE STORM GETS CLOSER AND MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST. AGAIN, TAYLOR HAS THE POSSIBLE CIRCLED ON RADAR. IT IS NOT GOING TO BE A CLASSIC LOOK HERE. BECAUSE AGAIN, THE BEAM IS ALOFT. MANY THOUSAND FEET OFF THE GROUND AT THIS POINT. AGAIN, THESE ARE THE APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIMES. YOU CAN LOOK AND SEE IF YOUR COMMUNITY IS ON THERE. MANY OF THESE PLACES ARE IN HALE COUNTY. THE WARNING IS NOT EXTENDED YET TO HALE COUNTY. THE WEATHER SERVICE WILL MAKE THAT DECISION PRETTY SOON. I DO WANT TO POINT OUT HERE, ONE ISSUE IS THAT WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM WITH THE BIRMINGHAM WEATHER RADIO SITE. THIS IS GOING ON FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. A PROBLEM THAT WILL TAKE A LOT OF WORK. WE WILL TALK ABOUT THIS LATER ONCE WE GET PAST THIS. IF YOU HAVE YOUR WEATHER RADIO TUNED TO THE BIRMINGHAM TRANSMITTER, YOU MIGHT HEAR NOISE. IT MIGHT NOT WORK. BE AWARE OF THAT. THAT WILL BE REPAIRED AT SOME POINT. THE BIRMINGHAM TRANSMITTER IS CURRENTLY ON A REDUCED COVERAGE. BECAUSE OF SOME TECHNICAL ISSUES THERE. BE AWARE OF THAT. HERE IS THE BIG PICTURE. LET'S EXPAND THIS OUT, TAYLOR. THE BIG PICTURE REAL QUICK. THIS IS THE WHOLE VIEW HERE. EAST ALABAMA IS QUIET. RAINING IN BIRMINGHAM. THERE IS SOME THUNDER IN THE WESTERN PART OF BIRMINGHAM. NOTHING SEVERE IN THE BIRMINGHAM METRO. NOTHING SEVERE IN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. AGAIN, THUNDER, LIGHTNING, HEAVY RAIN. NOTHING SEVERE. SEVERE CRITERIA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THUNDER, WEIRD CLOUDS, HEAVY RAIN. THE ONLY WAY A STORM CAN BE SEVERE, HIGH WIND AND LARGE HAIL. YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE NO WARNINGS IN EFFECT IN THE STATE EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE STORM THAT IS DOWN HERE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF GREEN COUNTY. I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF SHOW YOU THE BIG PICTURE. WHILE WE HAVE THIS UP, LET'S LOOK AT THE TORNADO WATCH VERY QUICKLY. WE HAVE A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FROM BIRMINGHAM TO MOBILE. THE COUNTIES IN YELLOW. THIS IS VALID UNTIL 6:00. THIS INCLUDES JEFFERSON, SHELBY, US THE CAN LOO SO, PICKENS. A TORNADO WATCH FROM BIRMINGHAM SOUTH AND WEST UNTIL 6:00. THE COUNTIES IN GREEN, THAT IS A FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 9:00 TOMORROW MORNING. IN ADDITION TO THE CHANCE OF A FEW SEVERE STORMS. WE HAVE HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL BE AN ISSUE. SOME SPOTS ALREADY HAVE PICKED UP TWO INCHES OF RAIN FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD-PRONE AREA, KIND OF PAY ATTENTION TO FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS. IF THEY ARE NEEDED. WE HOPE THEY ARE NOT. THE GROUND IS ABSOLUTELY SATURATED. LET'S GO BACK DOWN TO SOUTHERN GREEN COUNTY. WE ARE FOCUSING ON THAT ONE SPOT. THAT IS THE ONLY STORM THAT IS DANGEROUS IN THE ENTIRE STATE. THAT ONE. THAT IS IT. WE HAVE NO OTHER SEVERE WEATHER PROBLEMS ANYWHERE ELSE. OF COURSE, IF WE DO, WE WILL LET YOU KNOW. SO THIS IS YOUR SEVERE STORM. TUSCALOOSA HERE. DEMOPOLIS HERE. GREENSBORO HERE. THIS IS U.S. 43. THAT CIRCULATION IS BASICALLY CROSSING HIGHWAY 43 RIGHT NOW. U.S. 43 IS THE MAIN ROUTE IN WEST ALABAMA. RUNS FROM US THE CAN LOO SO TO UTAH. ALL THE WAY DOWN TO MOBILE. THE TORNADIC CIRCULATION MOST LIKELY IS CROSSING NEAR OR NORTH OF THE TOWN OF FORKLAND. YOU CAN SEE THAT WELL NOW IN THE VELOCITY. WE ARE GETTING A MUCH BETTER LOOK AS THE STORM MOVES NORTHEAST AND GETTING CLOSER TO THE RADAR SITE. AT THE SHELBY COUNTY AIRPORT. THE BEAM IS LOWER AND LOWER AS YOU GO HERE. YOUR TORNADO CROSSING HIGHWAY 43. NORTH OF THE FORKLAND TOWN HALL. THAT WILL MOST LIKELY REQUIRE A WARNING HERE FOR HALE COUNTY FAIRLY SOON. IF YOU ARE IN WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYERVILLE, AND AKRON, HAVANA, JUNCTION, NORTH OF GREENSBORO AND HALE COUNTY, ARRANGE A WARNING COULD BE REQUIRED HERE IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. AND AGAIN, WE HAVE SEEN TREE DAMAGE FROM THIS PARTICULAR TORNADO. IF WE CAN, LET'S GO BACK TO THE IMAGES HERE. THIS IS ALONG COUNTY ROAD 13. SUMPTER COUNTY ROAD 13. NOT TOO FAR FROM U.S. HIGHWAY 80. IT SEEMS FAIRLY OBVIOUS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE HAD THE TORNADO TO CROSS THROUGH THERE. YOU CAN SEE THAT TREE UPROOTED HERE. AND THE ROAD THERE IS BLOCKED. AGAIN, THIS IS SUMPTER COUNTY HIGHWAY 13. F THAT IS NOT TOO FAR FROM U.S. HIGHWAY 80. THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE TO THE EAST OF THE TOWN OF YORK. AND THIS IS THE ONLY DAMAGE WE HAVE HEARD OF SO FAR IN SUMPTER COUNTY. BUT AGAIN, THE TORNADO HAS CROSSED THROUGH SOME FAIRLY SPARSELY POPULATED AREAS. I WOULD IMAGINE WE HAVE A LOT OF TREES DOWN AS WELL LIKE THAT. WE WILL GO BACK TO THE RADAR HERE. WE ARE ON THE AIR WITH A TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN PART OF GREEN COUNTY. WE HAVE A POSSIBLE TORNADO RIGHT ON U.S. HIGHWAY 43. FIVE MILES SOUTH OF UTAH. JUST NORTH OF THE TOWN OF FORKLAND. AND THAT WILL BE CROSSING THE WARRIOR RIVER HERE. IN ABOUT FIVE TEN MINUTES. CROSSING OVER INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF HALE COUNTY. AND AGAIN, IN A MATTER OF MINUTES, WE WILL SEE IF WE ARE GOING TO GET A NEW WARNING FOR HALE. WE PROBABLY WILL. THE CIRCULATION HAS BEEN COMING AND GOING. I'LL SAY THAT. IT HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT CYCLIC. A COUPLE OF VOLUME SCANS WHERE THE CIRCULATION IS NOT AS INTENSE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TRY AND DO IN THE WEATHER ENTERPRISE, WE ARE TRYING TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF FALSE WARNINGS. THAT NUMBER WAS WAY TOO HIGH TEN YEARS AGO. THE WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS LED THE COUNTRY IN REDUCING THE FALSE ALARM RATIO. IN THE LAST TEN YEARS. THEY HAVE DONE AN AMAZING JOB. THE EASIEST THING TO DO IS TO HIT THE BUTTON AND ISSUE A WARNING EVERY TIME YOU SEE ROTATION ON RADAR. THAT IS NOT GOING TO WORK. YOUR FALSE ALARM RATIO WILL BE 80% OR 90%. THE FAR IS WAY DOWN. THEY HAVE DONE AN AMAZING JOB OF CUTTING OUT FALSE ALARMS. WE WE KNOW THAT THE CRY WOLF SYNDROME HAS HAD AN IMPACT ON HOW YOU REACT TO THESE WARNINGS. THE WARNINGS FROM BIRMINGHAM MEAN A LOT. IF THERE IS A WARNING, IT HAS BEEN VETTED. THEY HAVE THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT IT. AGAIN, IT DOES MEAN SOMETHING. AT THE MOMENT, THE CIRCULATION DOES LOOK PRETTY TIGHT ON RADAR. AGAIN, ALONG HIGHWAY 43. NEXT UP, THE MAIN HIGHWAY AFTER THAT WILL BE HIGHWAY 14. THAT RUNS BACK OVER TO UTAH FROM GREENSBORO. IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE. AFTER THAT, THE NEXT MAJOR HIGHWAY WOULD BE HIGHWAY 69. I WILL MENTION WE HAVE HAD TORNADOES IN THE SAME GENERAL PATH PRIOR TO THIS. WE HAD IT, AN EF-3 TORNADO ON APRIL 7, 2011. THIS CAME THROUGH THE EXACT SAME AREA. IN FACT, YOU CAN STILL SEE THE TREES DOWN FROM THAT EVENT 11 YEARS AGO. >> YOU GO DOWN HIGHWAY 43 OR CROSS HIGHWAY 14 HERE. LET'S ZOOM IN CLOSE. WE WILL ZOOM IN TIGHTER UNTIL WE SEE SAWYERVILLE POP UP. I WANTED TO SHOW WHERE SAWYERVILLE IS. IT IS RIGHT THERE. SO AGAIN, THAT IS YOUR POSSIBLE TORNADIC CIRCULATION AND AGAIN, WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYERVILLE, THESE TWO COMMUNITIES, IF YOU LIVE ANYWHERE NEAR THAT. SAWYERVILLE HAS HAD A RICH HISTORY OF TORNADOES. THEY ARE NO STRANGER TO THIS. YOU HAVE DEALT WITH TORNADOES OVER THE YEARS. IF THIS THING STAYS DOWN, IT WILL BE AWFULLY CLOSE TO YOU. AGAIN, WEDGEWORTH, SAWYERVILLE, HIGHWAY 14. THERE IS NO WARNING. IF THERE IS NO WARNING, GREAT. WE WILL LET YOU KNOW THAT. FOR SOME FOLKS THAT LIVE IN MANUFACTURED HOUSING, IT TAKES THEM 10-15, 20 MINUTES TO GET TO A COMMUNITY SHELTER OR TO GET TO A BUSINESS THAT IS OPEN OR GET TO SOME STRUCTURE THAT IS SAFE. WE DON'T WANT YOU ON THE ROAD. A CAR IS JUST AS BAD AS A MOBILE HOME IN THE CASE OF A TORNADO. AGAIN, IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME AND IN HALE COUNTY HERE, THE BEST ADVICE WOULD BE TO GO AHEAD AND GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW. BEST POSSIBLE SCENARIO, THE THING DISSIPATES, NOTHING HAPPENS. IT IS A COURSE OF LEAST REGRET. BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS. SO IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US HERE, AGAIN, I KNOW THERE IS SOME SOAP ON P RA. I APOLOGIZE. YOU WOULD NORMALLY BE WATCHING. THIS WE MADE THIS COMMITMENT. WE ARE GOING TO HONOR THAT, TO BE AIR ON THE AIR IF WE HAVE A TORNADO WARNING. THIS IS A THREAT TO HUMAN LIFE. THIS TORNADIC STORM IS, AGAIN, NOW PROBABLY A LITTLE EAST OF U.S. 43. JUST TO THE NORTH, NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF FORKLAND. IN GREEN COUNTY. THERE IS YOUR NEW VOLUME SCAN. THE CIRCULATION IS CLEARLY EAST OF U.S. 43. WE CAN GIVE AN ALL-CLEAR NOW TO HIGHWAY 43. >> YOU NEED TO TRAVEL ON U.S. 43 BETWEEN UTAH AND DEMOPOLIS, WE WILL GIVE YOU THE ALL-CLEAR. YOU CAN DO THAT NOW. THE CONCERN HAS SHIFTED EAST OF U.S. HIGHWAY 43. THAT WILL BE MOVING UP INTO HALE COUNTY HERE IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. AND AGAIN, THE NEXT MAJOR LANDMARK IS THE WARRIOR RIVER. THIS IS THE BLACK WARRIOR. THAT THING WILL BE CROSSING THE WARRIOR. HEADING UP TOWARD SAWYERVILLE AND WEDGEWORTH. AND SO AGAIN, WE WILL KNOW IN A MATTER OF MINUTES IF THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE EXTENDED. AGAIN, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, THE RIGHT THING IS TO DO IS TO GO AHEAD AND GET IN A SAFE PLAILS. >> YOU ARE IN THIS HIGHWAY 14 CORRIDOR. SAWYERVILLE AND WEDGEWORTH. AND THIS WILL BE... HERE IS THE NEW WARNING FOR HALE COUNTY. JUST ISSUED. WE HAVE A TORNADO WARNING FOR HALE COUNTY. THIS IS FOR THE NORTHERN PART OF HALE COUNTY. LET'S SHOW YOU WHO IS IN AND WHO IS OUT. IT DOES INCLUDE GREENSBORO. THERE IS A VERY STRONG PROBABILITY THIS TORNADO IS GOING TO PASS ABOUT FIVE SIX MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO. FORGET THAT. LISTEN, IF YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON, YOU NEED TO BE IN A SAFE PLACE. YOU CAN SEE THE POLYGON DEFINED HERE. THE FLASHING RED. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE MOUNDVILLE. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE MOUNDVILLE. TAYLOR, IF WE CAN GET EVAN ON THE LINE, I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHERE HE IS AND GET HISS LIVE. STREAM. HE IS BASICALLY COMING INTO THIS AIR GRAVMENT WE CAN TALK WITH HIM... >> WE SHOULD HAVE HIM DIALED. IN HE IS TELLING ME HE IS READY TO GO. >> OKAY. >> WE GET HIS LIVE-STREAM. IF I CAN TALK WITH HIM, WE WILL PUT HIM ON IN JUST A SECOND: AGAIN, LET ME REVIEW. MOUNDVILLE, YOU ARE NOT IN THE POLYGON. NO. THE POLYGON BEGINS AROUND HAVANA JUNCTION RIGHT HERE. THIS IS THE SPLIT. THIS IS HIGHWAY 69 GOING DOWN TO GREENSBORO. THIS IS HIGHWAY 60 GOING DOWN TO AKRON AND WEDGEWORTH. AND SO THAT IS YOUR NORTHERN EXTENT. AROUND HAVANA JUNCTION. DOWN TO GREENSBORO. AND THIS WILL INCLUDE OBVIOUSLY, WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYERVILLE. AND THE GREET GREATEST CONCERN HERE. ... THERE IS YOUR TORNADO. ABOUT TO CROSS THE WARRIOR. THAT HIGHWAY 14 CORRIDOR. IF YOU ARE ANYWHERE CLOSE TO THEM, YOU NEED TO BE SHELTERED. WE ADVICE YOU TO DO THAT 10-15 MINUTES AGO. IT IS GETTING AWFULLY CLOSE. YOUR TIME IS RUNNING OUT. AGAIN, WEDGEWORTH, SAWYERVILLE, YOU NEED TO BE SHELTERED NOW. YOU DON'T WANT TO BE IN A CAR. YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE IN A MOBILE HOME. THE TORNADO, AFTER CROSSING HIGHWAY 14, WILL CONTINUE OUT HERE TOWARD ALABAMA HIGHWAY 69. MOST LIKELY, IT IS GOING TO BE CROSSING HIGHWAY 69 ABOUT FIVE SIX MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO. MORE THAN LIKELY, DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO IS GOING TO BE SAFE HERE. LISTEN, GREENSBORO IS IN THE POLYGON. IF YOU ARE IN GREENSBORO, WE STILL ADVISE FOR PEOPLE TO BE SHELTERED. BUT AGAIN, THE GREATEST CONCERNS, HIGHWAY 14 WHICH IS RIGHT HERE. HIGHWAY 69, WHICH IS RIGHT HERE AND AGAIN, THE TRACK OF THIS THING IS VERY SIMILAR TO THE APRIL 27 TORNADO TRACK THAT CAME THROUGH THAT SAME GENERAL AREA. 11 YEARS AGO. AND THIS IS THE ONLY TORNADO WARNING WE HAVE IN THE ENTIRE STATE. AT THIS POINT. WE DO NOT HAVE ANY OTHER SEVERE STORMS. THAT IS THE REASON WE ARE FOCUSING EXCLUSIVELY ON THIS PARTICULAR THUNDERSTORM. YEAH, IT WAS AN EF-3 THAT CAME THROUGH THERE. IT CAME THROUGH A LITTLE FARTHER SOUTH HERE. THE 48th TORNADO FROM APRIL 27, 2011 WAS A VERY SIMILAR TO THE TRACK OF THIS. THIS PROBABLY NOT AS INTENSE. WE DON'T EXPECT THESE VIOLENT LONG TRACK EF-4 TORNADOES TODAY. LISTEN, AN EF-0 IS DANGEROUS. AN EF-1, THEY ARE ALL DANGEROUS. YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT, ASK ANYODY THAT HAS BEEN THROUGH AN EF-0 OR EF-1. THEY ARE DANGEROUS AND A THREAT OF TO HUMAN LIFE. THE GREEN COUNTY LINE. THIS IS GOING TO BE OUT OF GREEN COUNTY IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. THAT WILL BE CROSSING OVER INTO HALE COUNTY. THAT IS THE FOCUS NOW. THE WARNING THAT IS CURRENTLY IN EFFECT FOR HALE COUNTY. AND AGAIN, WE ARE WATCHING A LOT OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS. AGAIN, AT THIS POINT, I HAVE YET TO SEE ANY SPECIFIC DAMAGE OTHER THAN DOWN TREES FROM THIS. WE HAVE HEARD OF NO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE OR INJURIES. THAT IS A GOOD THING. AGAIN, AS I HAVE BEEN SAYING, THIS IS MOVING OVER A FAIRLY SPARSELY POPULATED AREA. AND WE HAVE TO BE VIGILANT HERE. THIS IS STILL A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM. SO WE HAVE A TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT NOW FOR PARTS OF THE HALE COUNTY. ESPECIALLY THE NORTHERN HALF OF HALE COUNTY. NOT INCLUDING MOUNDVILLE. AS THIS POTENTIAL TORNADO WHICH IS RIGHT HERE IS GOING TO BE CROSSING THROUGH HERE. THIS IS MOUNDVILLE. THIS IS GREENSBORO. GREENSBORO IS IN THE POLYGON. THIS IS ALL SOUTH OF TUSCALOOSA. THIS TORNADO WAS CROSSING ABOUT 25-30 MILES SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN TUSCALOOSA. THIS IS EXA CLEESE YOU HAVE ULY PART OF THE NORTHERN COUNTY. SHELBY AND JEFFERSON, THE BIRMINGHAM METRO AND THE TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 6:00 THIS EVENING. SO AGAIN, THIS IS YOUR TORNADO WARNING. THIS IS IN WEST ALABAMA. AGAIN, THIS IS ALL HAPPENING ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF TUSCALOOSA. THIS IS 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN BIRMINGHAM. THE POTENTIAL TORNADO ON THE BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. TUSCALOOSA IS UP HERE. BIRMINGHAM IS UP HERE. WHAT WE WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW, IF WE HAVE EVAN'S LIVE-STREAM. >> WE CAN TAKE THAT. I WOULD LIKE TO TALK WITH EVAN. EVAN, YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO THIS PARTICULAR CELL. WHERE ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU SEE IN CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING HERE OVER THE LAST FIVE MINUTES. I'M SIX MILES DUE EAST OF AKRON. IF I'VE GOT THAT RIGHT. I'M ON 69 SOUTH. AND OTHER THAN THAT, IT HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, AN OFF-AND-ON INTERMITTENT RAINFALL. LOTS MORE LIGHTNING THAN I HAD BEFORE. I SHOULD BE HEADED IN THE PATH OF THIS IN THE NEXT 10-15 MINUTES. WE WILL BE SPLITTING THE DIFFERENCE TWEENS BETWEEN GREENSBORO AND MOUNDVILLE. IN HALE COUNTY. >> EVAN IS IN HALE COUNTY. ON ALABAMA HIGHWAY 69. THE SOUTH OF MOUNDVILLE. WHAT EVAN WILL DO, HE WILL DO THIS IN A SAFE WAY. UNDERSTAND, WE DON'T PUT OURSELVES IN DANGER. HE WILL BE STOPPING IN A SAFE PLACE. AND EVAN WILL BE VERY CLOSE TO WHERE THIS IS GOING TO BE CROSSING OVER. AGAIN, HE IS COMING RIGHT DOWN THIS HIGHWAY RIGHT HERE. WE WILL BE STICKING WITH HIS CAMERA VERY CAREFULLY ONCE THIS THING GETS CLOSER. LOOKS LIKE TAYLOR HAS SOME LOWER C.C. VALUES THERE. >> WE ARE STARTING TO SEE THAT TDS SOUTHWEST OF SAWYERVILLE. WHEN WE SEE THESE BRIGHT COLORS SHOW UP HERE, THESE YELLOWS AND BLUES, THAT GIVES US AN INDICATION THAT THERE ARE THINGS LOFTED UP IN THE ATMOSPHERE THAT AREN'T JUST UNIFORM RAINDROPS. WE ARE TALKING THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME DEBRIS LOFTED THERE. THAT WILL GIVE US THE IDEA THAT THIS TORNADO HAS BEEN DOWN AND COULD CONTINUE TO STAY DOWN. AT THIS POINT, WE NOW HAVE A CONFIRMED TORNADO ON THE GROUND. >> ALL RIGHT. SO WE NOW BASED ON THE DEBRIS TRACKER WHICH IS CORRELATION CO-EFFICIENT, THAT IS DEBRIS BEING LOFTED. TREE LIMBS. AND OTHER THINGS FROM THE GROUND. BEING PULLED UP BY THE TORNADO. WE HAVE THAT LOWERED C.C. WE HAVE A DEBRIS SIGNATURE THAT IS DOWN. AGAIN, THE TORNADO IS GETTING CLOSE TO SAWYERVILLE. AGAIN, IF YOU ARE IN SAWYERVILLE, YOU HAVE TO BE SHELTERED. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR THOSE ALONG HIGHWAY 14. WEDGEWORTH RIGHT DOWN TO SAWYERVILLE. WEDGEWORTH IS WHERE HIGHWAY 60 SPLITS UP TOWARD AKRON RIGHT HERE. THAT TORNADO IS ABOUT TO CROSS THROUGH. NO DOUBT, THIS IS A TORNADO RIGHT NOW. WE HAVE DEBRIS BEING LOFTED. THIS IS, AGAIN, ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF TUSCALOSA. ABOUT 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIRMINGHAM. THIS IS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF HALE COUNTY. WE CAN GIVE GREEN COUNTY THE ALL-CLEAR. AGAIN, THERE IS YOUR LOWERED C.C. THIS IS YOUR TORNADO INDICATION RIGHT HERE. THAT IS A TORNADO. THAT IS DEBRIS BEING LOFTED. NO DOUBT ABOUT. THAT THIS PRODUCT IS REALLY GOOD. WE KNOW NOW THAT A TORNADO IS DOWN. THAT TORNADO IS APPROACHING ALABAMA HIGHWAY 14. AGAIN, TAYLOR HAS THE HIGHWAY 14 HIGHLIGHTED HERE. WEDGEWORTH HERE. SAWYERVILLE HERE. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION HERE. YOU HAVE TO BE SHELTERED. IF YOU ARE IN EITHER ONE OF THOSE COMMUNITIES OR EVEN CLOSE TO THOSE COMMUNITIES, AND FROM THERE, THE TORNADO WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST. ULTIMATELY TOWARD HIGHWAY 69. AGAIN, THIS IS ABOUT TO CROSS HIGHWAY 14 IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. IT MIGHT BE CLOSE TO HIGHWAY 14 RIGHT NOW. AND AGAIN, THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. YOU HAVE TO BE SHELTERED. NOBODY, NOBODY SHOULD BE DRIVING ALONG ALABAMA HIGHWAY 14 IN HALE COUNTY. NOBODY SHOULD BE DRIVING ALONG ALABAMA HIGHWAY 69 IN HALE COUNTY. HIGHWAY 69 BETWEEN MOUNDVILLE AND GREENSBORO. DON'T THINK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW. A TORNADO LIKE THIS COULD TAKE A CAR LIKE THIS AND TOSS IT LIKE A TOY. THAT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND A THREAT TO HUMAN LIFE. YOU CAN'T BE IN A MOBILE HOME IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS. YOU HAVE TO BE SOMEPLACE THAT IS OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY. WHERE THEY CAN ALLOW YOU IN AND YOU CAN BE SHELTERED FROM THIS. REMEMBER, IF YOU ARE IN A SITE-BUILT HOUSE, WEAR A HELMET. SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE SEVERE INJURIES. BY PUTTING ON A CHEAP WALMART BICYCLE HELMET. THAT REALLY MITIGATES THE CHANCE OF BEING INJURED SERIOUSLY OR LOSING YOUR LIFE IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS. A BATTING HELMET. >> YOUR KIDS PLAY SPORTS. THIS IS NOT JUST FOR KIDS. THIS IS FOR ADULTS. ONCE AGAIN, WE HAVE A TORNADO CROSSING HIGHWAY 14 RIGHT NOW. IN THE VICINITY OF WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYERVILLE AND HALE COUNTY. THIS IS PAT PASSING NORTH OF GREENSBORO. THE LARGEST TOWN IS IN THE POLYGON. IF YOU ARE IN GREENSBORO, YOU SHOULD BE SHELTERED. YES, DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO, A GOOD CHANCE THIS STAYS FIVE MILES NORTH OF YOU. YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON. YOU RESPECT IT AND STAY SHELTERED. AGAIN, TORNADO HERE. HAVANA JUNCTION,ING THAT HIGH THAT IS HIGHWAY 69 RIGHT HERE GOING DOWN TOWARDS GREENSBORO. AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE ALL THESE OTHER SMALL COUNTY ROADS OUT HERE. THAT IS COUNTY ROAD 17 RIGHT THERE. HALE COUNTY HIGHWAY 2 # RIGHT THERE. THIS IS HARPER HILL. YOU COME OFF THAT HILL UP HERE FROM HAVANA. DOWN IN THE VALLEY. THAT IS GOING TO BE CROSSING RIGHT THROUGH THERE. A VERY, VERY DANGEROUS STORM. WE HAVE A TORNADO DOWN. WE HAVE DEBRIS BEING LOFTED. THIS IS A CONFIRMED TORNADO. AND AGAIN, THIS TORNADO IS CONTINUING TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST. WE HAVE MORE REPORTS OF TREES DOWN OVER IN SUMPTER COUNTY FROM THIS EARLIER. THIS THING IS REALLY WRAPPING UP. LET'S QUICKLY LOOK AT THE VELOCITY DISPLAY. THAT IS CLEARLY A TORNADO. WE WANT TO SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN THE VELOCITY. AND THAT THING HAS REALLY WRAPPED UP. A TIGHT COUPLET. THAT IS A TORNADO SIGNATURE ON RADAR. LET'S GO BACK TO OUR DEBRIS TRACKER. THAT TORNADO IS DOWN AND LOFTING DEBRIS. PROBABLY UP TO 12,000 FEET. AND AGAIN, THIS IS IN THE PROCESS OF CROSSING HIGHWAY 14 RIGHT NOW. NEAR SAWYERVILLE AND WEDGEWORTH. THAT WILL CONTINUE MOVING OUT HERE ACROSS RURAL HALE COUNTY. NORTH OF GREENSBORO, SOUTH OF MOUNDVILLE. PROBABLY SOUTH OF HAVANA JUNCTION HERE. THAT WILL CONTINUE MOVING IN THE DIRECTION OF BIB COUNTY. IF THIS THING CONTINUES, A WARNING COULD BE REQUIRED FOR BIB COUNTY LATER THIS AFTERNOON. WE HAVE HEARD OF NO MAJOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AT THIS POINT. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THIS HAS BEEN MOVING OVER A SPARSELY POPULATED AREA. AND AGAIN, THIS IS TEXT HERE FROM THE WEATHER SERVICE. A CONFIRMED LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO OVER SAWYERVILLE. NINE MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENSBORO. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. SO AGAIN, THE WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM CALLING THIS A CONFIRMED LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO. SO THIS ISES A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SO AGAIN, IT'S BASICALLY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF SAWYERVILLE... REALLY BETWEEN WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYERVILLE RIGHT HERE. THAT IS AN EXTREMELY STRONG, STRONG, STRONG LOWERED CORRELATION COEFFICIENT VALUE. AGAIN, THAT IS MOVING NORTHEAST. NOW, WE HAVE EVAN. >> WE CAN BRING EVAN IN. I WANT TO TALK WITH HIM. LET'S LEAVE THE DOUBLE BOX UP. WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE WE ARE GOING TO BE VERY CLOSE TO THIS. EVAN, TELL US EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE. YOU ARE ON HIGHWAY 69. HOW FAR SOUTH OF MOUNDVILLE. HOW FAR NORTH OF GREENSBORO. >> SO ACCORDING TO MY LOCATION HERE, IT LOOKS LIKE I'M ABOUT SIX MILES NORTH OF GREENSBORO. ABOUT 7.5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AKRON. AND THE MIDDLE OF THIS COMING UP JUST ABOUT EIGHT MILES TO MY SOUTHWEST. I CAN SEE A REALLY GOOD SHOT HERE ON THE CORRELATION CO-EFFICIENT. IF I TAKE IT TO THE HIGHEST PIXEL, ABOUT 9.3 MILES TO MY SOUTHWEST. I'M NOT GOING TO GO ANY FURTHER SOUTH ON THIS ROADWAY FOR CONCERNS THAT IF THIS DOES JUMP A LITTLE FURTHER NORTH, I'LL BE RIGHT IN THE PATH OF THIS. WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET A GOOD VIEW. ANOTHER PROBLEM DOWN HERE, JAMES, TO YOUR POINT, PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO BE TRYING TO SEE THIS. THERE IS NOT A CLEAR LINE OF SIGHT. THERE ARE A TON OF TREES. I DON'T THINK YOU WOULD HAVE A VIEW UNTIL THIS IS RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU. AGAIN, THIS IS 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ME. I'M LOOKING SOUTH ON HIGHWAY 69 HERE IN HALE COUNTY. >> OKAY. AGAIN, WE DON'T WANT ANYBODY TRAVELING THAT HIGHWAY. YOU SEE THOSE CARS. LET'S LEAVE THE DOUBLE BOX UP HERE. BECAUSE WE MIGHT HAVE A VERY LARGE TORNADO THAT IS ABOUT TO CROSS EVAN'S SHOT HERE IN A FEW MINUTES. SO WE ARE GOING TO GO WITH DOUBLE BOXES HERE FOR A MINUTE. AND LEAVE EVAN'S SHOT UP. EVAN, IF YOU NEED TO INTERRUPT US, DON'T HESITATE TO DO THAT. AND AGAIN, IF YOU NEED TO MOVE, YOU KNOW, SAFETY COMES FIRST HERE. BUT THE DISCOURAGING THING IS SEEING THESE PEOPLE OUT HERE DRIVING. AND LISTEN, THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN BE A HERO. TODAY. IF YOU KNOW ANYBODY IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO, CALL THEM OR TEXT THEM NOW. AND LET THEM KNOW THIS IS NO JOKE. THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. THEY HAVE TO BE SHELTERED. THIS IS AN URGENT SITUATION. IF YOU KNOW SOMEBODY THAT MIGHT BE DRIVING OUT THERE ON HIGHWAY 69, YOU SEE THESE CARS OUT THERE PASSING EVAN. TELL THEM GET OFF THE ROAD. YOU HAVE TO STOP AND GET INTO A SHELTER. BECAUSE YOU CANNOT BE DRIVING ALONG HIGHWAY 69. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. THEY CAN'T BE DOING THAT. THAT IS THE WORST POSSIBLE PLACE TO BE AS A CAR. ... IN A CAR. YOU CAN BE PART OF THE PROCESS. YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF. THIS IF YOU KNOW ANYBODY IN HALE COUNTY THAT LIST ALONG HIGHWAY 69 HERE, BETWEEN HAVANA JUNCTION AND GREENSBORO, ANYWHERE CLOSE TO THIS, LET THEM KNOW. WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS LOWERED AREA OF CORRELATION, THIS IS STILL THERE. THIS IS WEDGEWORTH, SAWYERVILLE AREA. AGAIN, ONCE WE GET THIS THING PASSED EVAN, EVAN WILL BE GOING DOWN TO WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYERVILLE TO SEE WHAT KIND OF DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED THERE. BEST POSSIBLE SNARE JOE, A WHOLE LOT OF TREES DOWN. IT MISSED HOUSES. WE DON'T KNOW THAT. AGAIN, EVAN WILL BE ON THE ROAD F HERE SHORTLY. AND HE WILL LET US KNOW ONCE IT IS SAFE FOR HIM TO DRIVE. BUT AGAIN, IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US, WE HAVE EVAN WHO IS LIVE ON HIGHWAY 69, LOOKING INTO THIS. AND A LARGE VIOLENT OR THE NAPE DOE COULD BE CROSSING HIS LOCATION IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. AGAIN, WE WILL LEAVE THE DOUBLE BOX CONFIGURATION UP HERE FOR A LITTLE BIT. AS WE WATCH THE VISUAL CONFIRMATION. BUT AGAIN, WITH THIS LOWERED CORRELATION RIGHT HERE, THAT IS A STRONG SIGN THAT A TORNADO IS STILL DOWN. THE WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM CALLING THIS A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO. IT IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45. THIS IS THE ONLY TORNADO WARNING IN THE WHOLE STATE RIGHT NOW. SO AGAIN, WE ARE FOCUSING ON THIS ONE STORM. YOU MIGHT HEAR THUNDER. IT MIGHT BE RAINING HEAVILY. WHERE YOU ARE. THERE IS NO TORNADO THREAT ANYWHERE IN THE STATE AT THIS MOMENT. EXCEPT RIGHT HERE. THAT IS THE REASON WE ARE FOCUSING ON THIS STORM. THIS IS SOUTHERN... I'M SORRY. THE NORTHERN HALF OF HALE COUNTY. ALL OF THIS WILL BE HAPPENING NORTH OF GREENSBORO. LET'S EXPAND THIS OUT A LITTLE BIT. AND SEE IF THEY HAVE ADJUSTED THE POLYGON SLIGHTLY TO GET GREENSBORO OUT. AND THEY HAVE. GREENSBORO IS NOT IN THE POLYGON. IF YOU WERE IN GREENSBORO, LET'S GIVE YOU AN ALL-CLEAR. THE WEATHER SERVICE HAS TAKEN GREENSBORO OUT. THERE IS NO DOUBT THIS TORNADO WILL BE PASSING NORTH OF DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO. IF YOU WERE IN DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO, YOU HAVE THE ALL-CLEAR FROM THIS PARTICULAR TORNADO. NO PROBLEMS FOR YOU. YOU CAN COME OUT OF YOUR SAFE PLACE. GO ABOUT YOUR REGULAR ROUTINE. THE CONCERN IS NORTH OF GREENSBORO, SOUTH OF MOUNDVILLE. MOUNDVILLE HERE, GREENSBORO HERE. AND AGAIN, THIS CROSSED OVER HIGHWAY 14 AROUND SAWYERVILLE. AND FORECAST IT WILL BE COMING OUT ACROSS HIGHWAY 69. VERY CLOSE TO EVAN'S LOCATION HERE. IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. AND EVAN, ARE YOU LOOKING NORTH OR SOUTH? I'M TRYING TO CLARIFY EXACTLY WHICH DIRECTION WE ARE IN HERE. >> I'M LOOKING SOUTH HERE, JAMES. I HAVE TO TELL YOU, THIS THING JUST SHIFTED A LITTLE FURTHER NORTH TO MY LIKING. I MAY HAVE TO TAKE A BIT OF A SHOT BACK TO THE NORTH. AS I'M LOOKING AT THIS. THE TRACK OF. THIS IT LOOKS VERY IMPRESSIVE ON RADAR. I'M WATCHING RADAR SCOPE. WE WERE LOOKING SOUTH. I'M NOW LOOKING NORTH. I'M GOING TO TRY TO DEBT GET TO A BETTER VANTAGE POINT AS WE MOVE FORWARD. >> RIGHT. AGAIN, THE KEY THING IS TAFFETY. IS SAFETY. EVERYTHING ELSE COMES SECONDARY. AGAIN, EVAN IS ON HIGHWAY 69. HE IS GOING TO POSITION HIMSELF IN A PLACE WHERE HE IS SAFE. BUT AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THAT VERY, VERY, VERY INTENSE CIRCULATION, TORNADIC CIRCULATION. I WOULD SAY THAT WILL BE ON THAT HIGHWAY ON HIGHWAY 69 IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. EVAN IS PROBABLY... HE PROBABLY HAS MAYBE FIVE MINUTES BEFORE THAT THING GETS ON THAT HIGHWAY. HE IS GOING TO POSITION HIMSELF ON IN A SAFE PLACE. EVAN IS SOUTH OF MOUNDVILLE, NORTH OF GREENSBORO. HE WILL BE IN A PLACE WHERE HE CAN SEE THIS AND GIVE US THE VIEW. WE HAVE TO DO IT SAFELY. THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS. THAT HE IS SAFE. AGAIN, EVAN HAS DONE THIS BEFORE. THIS AIN'T HIS FIRST RODEO. HE WILL PICK A SPOT THAT IS SAFE. AGAIN, YOU WILL SEE THE VIDEO FREEZING FROM TIME TO TIME AS HE GETS INTO A SAFE PLACE. AS SOON AS WE GET THAT VIDEO BACK, WE WILL GO BACK TO THE DOUBLE BOX. SO WE HAVE A POTENTIALLY VIOLENT TORNADO NOW IN THE PROCESS OF APPROACHING HIGHWAY 69. THAT WILL BE PASSING JUST SOUTH OF HAVANA JUNCTION. GREENSBORO, YOU ARE SAFE. AGAIN, WE STRESS THAT IF YOU ARE IN GREENSBORO, YOU HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT OF THE POLYGON. AND AGAIN, THIS IS THE SPLIT RIGHT HERE: MY FINGER IS ON THE SPLIT. A LITTLE... HIGHWAY 60 GOES DOWN TOWARD AKRON. 69, OBVIOUSLY, IS THE MAIN CONCERN. AGAIN, IF ANYWHERE NEAR HAVANA JUNCTION, HARPER HILL, YOU HAVE TO BE IN A SAFE PLACE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF A VERY SIGNIFICANT TORNADO THAT IS APPROACHING YOU RIGHT NOW. THAT IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. GETTING SOME MORE REPORTS NOW. WE HAVE NOW OUR FIRST REPORTS OF HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED. A MOBILE HOME KNOCKED OFF ITS FOUNDATION ALONG ALABAMA HIGHWAY 14. THAT IS NEAR WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYERVILLE. AND THAT IS COMING FROM BRETT ADAIR WHO HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME. AGAIN, WE HAVE REPORTS OF HOMES THAT ARE SEVERELY DAMAGED. MOST OF THE SECOND STORY MISSING ON ONE HOME. AND A MOBILE HOME KNOCKED OFF ITS FOUNDATION. I DON'T KNOW OF ANY INJURIES AT THIS POINT. BUT AGAIN, THIS IS ALONG HIGHWAY 14. THAT IS AROUND WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYER VIRL. FROM THE SAME TORNADO. AGAIN, IT IS CLEARLY PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. THIS IS ABOUT TO CROSS ALABAMA HIGHWAY 69. AND AGAIN, THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE WATCHING. YOU ARE WATCHING A LIVE FEED FROM EVAN. OUR STORM-CHAILSER IS RIGHT IN A PLACE WHERE WE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THIS. AGAIN, MAYBE. MAYBE. IT IS ALL RAIN-WRAPPED. BUT WE WILL HAVE A MUCH BETTER IDEA OF THE DAMAGE AND AGAIN, ONCE THIS PASSES EVAN'S LOCATION, WE WILL REROUTE HIM DOWN TO SAWYERVILLE. WE CAN SEE THE DAMAGE THAT HAS OCCURRED DOWN THERE. AROUND SAWYERVILLE AND WEDGEWORTH. TAYLOR IS HIGHLIGHTING THAT LOWERED C.C. THIS IS CROSSING IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. IF WE CAN BRING EVAN'S MIC UP. TELL US WHERE YOU ARE SO WE GET A POINT OF REFERENCE HERE. >> JAMES, HARD TO HEAR. HARD TO SEE. I'LL TELL YOU, I'M HEADED BACK NORTH. I'M WATCHING THE MIDDLE OF THIS ON THE SAME... BASICALLY, THE SAME PRODUCTS YOU GUYS ARE. I'M SEEING ESSENTIALLY WHERE THE TWO COLORS ARE MEETING. THE RED AND THE BLUE. I'M FOUR AND A HALF MILES NORTHEAST OF. THAT I'M TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE IMMEDIATE PATH HERE. STILL HEADED NORTH, AS YOU CAN SEE. PEOPLE HAVE THEIR HAZARDS ON ON THIS ROADWAY. I KIND OF TRIED TO SIGNAL TO A FEW VEHICLES TO MAYBE GET OFF THE ROAD. THE PERSON IN FRONT OF ME DID DO THAT. THIS THING IS GOING TO BE ENTIRELY RAIN-WRAPPED. THERE IS A LOT OF HEAVY RAIN WHERE I'M AT RIGHT NOW. AGAIN, JUST TRYING TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. I'LL GET YOU A SHOT IF I CAN. >> YEAH. THIS IS THE REFLECTTIVITY. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE ANYTHING. WHAT EVAN'S SHOT SHOWS THERE, THAT IS WHAT IT IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE WHEN THE TORNADO COMES THROUGH. THIS AIN'T KANSAS HERE. WE GET LP SUPER CELLS THAT HAVE VERY WELL WET. THE TORNADOES ARE RAIN-WRAPPED. THEY ARE HARD TOO SEE. THE KEY MESSAGE HERE, EVAN IS A TRAINED METEOROLOGIST. HE IS GOING TO BE SAFE. HE IS IN A STORM-CHASER VEHICLE. HE HAS RADAR. EVERYBODY OUT THERE DRIVING AROUND, THAT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. YOU CAN'T BE IN A CAR LIKE. THAT AGAIN, IF YOU KNOW ANYBODY ON 69, THEY HAVE TO GET OFF AND GET INTO A SAFE PLACE. THEY ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. THE TORNADO IS BASICALLY COMING UP RIGHT NOW ON 69. THAT IS YOUR TORNADO. AGAIN, THIS IS DEBRIS BEING LOFTED. UP TO 10,000, 15,000 FEET. THAT IS IN THE PROCESS OF CROSSING HIGHWAY 69 RIGHT NOW. NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF HARPER HILL. THAT IS AWFULLY CLOSE TO HAVANA. THE LEGENDARY J.B. ELLIOTT IS FROM HAVE A HAVANA JUNCTION. MY MENTOR. I KNOW THIS AREA WELL. ONCE IT CROSSES HIGHWAY 69, IT WILL MOVE ON INTO THE NORTHEAST PART OF HALE COUNTY. UP IN THE TALLADEGA NOCIAL NATIONAL FOREST OVER HERE. THAT IS SPARSELY POPULATED. BUT STILL, PEOPLE DO LIVE THERE. I'M AFRAID WE HAVE HAD SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE IN SAWYERVILLE AND WEDGEWORTH. THE TORNADO WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST. ULTIMATELY, CROSSING INTO PARTS OF BISH COUNTY. THIS IS THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTY OF TUSCALOOSA. HAGUELER. THIS IS U.S. 82. COMING DOWN TOWARDS CENTERVILLE. AGAIN, THERE IS YOUR TORNADO. MOVING ABOUT LIKE. THAT AND AGAIN, THE NEXT COUNTY IN LINE IS BIB. THIS THING HAS BEEN PERSISTENT. IT PSYCHLED A LITTLE BIT FROM TIME TO TIME. IT WILL PROBABLY CYCLE AGAIN. THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TRACK TORNADO, APPARENTLY. AGAIN, IT MIGHT BE RIDING SOME TYPE OF BOUND RIP THROUGH HERE. WE REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT TORNADO DAMAGE. TO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO HOMES. A MOBILE HOME SHIFTED OFF THE FOUNDATION. ALONG HIGHWAY 14 WHEN IT CROSSED THROUGH THERE EARLIER. AGAIN, THAT WILL BE COMING OUT ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF HALE COUNTY. THIS IS 25 MILES SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN TUSCALOOSA. GREENSBORO IS HERE. GREENSBORO, YOU WERE TAKEN OUT OF THE POLYGON. YOU ARE GOOD. GREENSBORO, NO PROBLEM. US THE CAN LOO SO, NO PROBLEM. BETWEEN THOSE TWO CHUNTS. MOUNDVILLE, NOT IN THE POLYGON. THE POLYGON IS BETWEEN MOUNDVILLE AND GREENSBORO. AT THIS POINT, WE CAN NARROW DOWN THE POLYGON A PRETTY GOOD BIT. WE HAVE A WELL-DEFINED TDS ON RADAR. THESE ARE SOME APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIMES OF TOWNS WITHIN THIS. SO AGAIN, LET'S BRING IN EVAN. EVAN, IT IS JUST POURING. LOOKS LIKE A QUAGMIRE WHERE YOU ARE. >> ABSOLUTELY, JAMES. ALL RIGHT. I'M NOW WHERE I THINK I'M COMFORTABLE ENOUGH TO TURN THIS BACK. WE ARE LOOKING BACK SOUTH. I'M GOING TO MOVE SLOWLY HERE. WE ALREADY HAVE TWO VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. IT LOOKS LIKE FOR APPARENT RAIN, NOT THE WIND. THE WINDS HAVE PICKED UP HERE. OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MINUTES. NOW I'M KIND OF SLOWLY MOVING BACK SOUTH. ACCORDING TO RADAR, I'M ABOUT THREE MILES NORTHEAST OF THE CENTER O'THIS STORM. I MEAN,S IF A COMPLETE WASHOUT. RAIN-WISE. AGAIN, I TRIED TO SIGNAL TO SOME VEHICLES. I TURNED THE CHASER SIDEWAYS. ON 69. I'M HERE... LET'S SEE. ABOUT TO CROSS OVER COUNTY ROAD 37. AGAIN, I HAVE A FIELD OUT HERE TO MY LEFT, A TREE LINE UP HERE TO MY RIGHT. SOME MORE VEHICLES COMING TO THE NORTH. THERE IS THAT VEHICLE ON THE SIDE OF A ROAD. THERE WAS A SMALL INCIDENT. A SINGLE-CAR VEHICLE. THIS IS LITERALLY ON TOP OF... ABOUT TO CROSS OVER THE HIGHWAY HERE. I HAVE MY HAZARDS ON. I HAVE BEEN STAYING OUT OF THE WAY. I HAVEN'T SEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT YET. THERE IS A FLAG TO MY LEFT. OUT OF THE SHOT. IT IS FULL-ON BLOWING TOWARDS THIS STORM. I THINK WE ARE STARTING TO FEEL A LITTLE BIT OF PERHAPS THE MEZZO WITH THIS AS IT APPROACHES THE HIGHWAY. YOU CAN SEE THE RAIN THERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. GETTING BLOWN TO MY BACK. I SUPPOSE. >> ALL RIGHT. AGAIN, IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US, EVAN IS IN A SAFE PLACE LOOKING BACK INTO THIS TORNADO THAT IS ABOUT TO CROSS HIGHWAY 69 HERE. IT SHOULD BE VERY CLOSE TO THE HIGHWAY RIGHT NOW, EVAN. LOOKING AT IT, YOU HAVE RADAR THERE AND THE CHASER. HOW MANY MILES DO YOU THINK YOU ARE FROM THE TORNADO AT THAT SPOT? >> IT LOOKS LIKE I'M JUST SHY OF THREE MILES. I HAVE THE INSPECTOR GOING HERE. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FOLLOW THIS AND GET MYSELF AT, YOU KNOW, A DECENT LENGTH. AS I PICKS LATE IT RIGHT NOW, I'M 3.1 FROM THE CENTER. WHERE THAT ROTATION IS. I CAN ONLY HOPE AFTER THIS PASSES AND I GO SEE WHERE THIS HAS MOVED THROUGH, THAT IT IS NOT TOO BAD. IT CERTAINLY LOOKS THAT WAY ON RADAR. >> RIGHT. THERE HAS BEEN MAJOR DAMAGE ALONG HIGHWAY 14. WEST OF GREENSBORO. OUT TOWARD WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYERVILLE. SO EVAN, AFTER THIS PASSES YOU, WE WANT YOU TO GO DOWN TOWARD HIGHWAY 14, TOWARD SAWYERVILLE. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE DAMAGE. WE WILL GET A LIVE LOOK FROM VOW YOU. OBVIOUSLY, STAY THERE UNTIL THIS THING PASSES. AGAIN, I WANT TO STRESS. DO DON'T GO OUT AND LOOK FOR THIS THING. YOU CAN'T SEE ANYTHING. IT IS POURING. THIS IS TOTALLY RAIN-WRAPPED. IT IS AN HP-SUPER CELL THUNDERSTORM. HEAVY PRECIPITATION. YOU JUST WON'T SEE IT. I KNOW IT IS HUMAN NATURE. YOU WANT TO LOOK AND GO OUTSIDE. YOU SEE ALL THESE COLORS AND YOU WANT TO SEE IF IT IS THERE. TRY TO FIGHT THAT. THE GOOD NEWS, TAYLOR, IT IS A LITTLE MORE DIG DISORGANIZED ON THE LAST VOLUME SCAN. STILL, THIS HAS BEEN CYCLING. COMING AND GOING. THE TORNADIC CIRCULATION IS ON HIGHWAY 69. JUST BELOW HAVANA. I WOULD SAY ABOUT TWO MILES BELOW THE HIGHWAY 60 SPLIT. 60 GOES DOWN TO AKRON. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO IS, AGAIN, CROSSING HIGHWAY 69 RIGHT NOW. THE VELOCITIES HAVE COME DOWN. THAT IS A GOOD THING. AND WE ARE NOT SEEING THAT ENHANCED DEBRIS SIGNATURE ON RADAR. AND AGAIN, WE DON'T EXPECT THESE LONG, LONG TRACK TORNADOES TODAY. ALTHOUGH THIS ONE HAS BEEN HANGING IN THERE FOR A WHILE. IT IS CLEARLY CAUSING DAMAGE BACK ON HIGHWAY 14 AT THIS POINT. SO LET'S SEE. I'M GOING TO PITCH TO TAYLOR WHILE WE CHANGE SOME MICS ON THE BATTERIES HERE. TAYLOR, YOU TAKE IT. >> SOUNDS GOOD. WE ARE WAITING FOR THIS TO POP UP ON THE MAP. WE HAVE A NEW WARNING THAT IS GOING TO INCLUDE BIB AND TUSCALOOSA COUNTIES. I'M WAITING FOR THAT TO POPULATE ON THE MAP. HERE IS THE CITILE OF TUSCALOOSA. I'M GOING TO CIRCLE THIS. IT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THAT POLYGON. IF WE CAN TAKE THE MAP FULL, I'M GOING TO NAME SOME COMMUNITIES WHO ARE IN THAT POLYGON. DUNCANVILLE. YOU ARE INCLUDED. THIS INCLUDES COALING. I-20. BIBVILLE. LAKE VIEW INCLUDED IN THAT. BRENT IS NOT INCLUDE. I'M GOING TO LEAVE IT ON THIS BIG VIEW HERE FOR US. I'M GOING TO TRACK THIS STORM. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR. ONE GOOD THING TO NOTE, WITH THIS LATEST RADAR SCAN, IT IS NOT LOOKING QUITE AS INTENSE AS IT DID. NOT AS ORGANIZED AS IT WAS A FEW MINUTES AGO. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS AIR ERRING ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION, AS THEY SHOULD. THEY ARE ISSUING THE DOWNSTREAM WARNING FOR US. RIGHT NOW WE ARE LOOKING AT THIS CENTER OF SICKLATION PASSING CLOSE TO THE CITY OF DUN VANVILLE. AROUND 2:38. THE CITY OF LITTLE HOPE AROUND 2:45. THAT WOULD ALSO TAKE THIS OVER RIGHT AROUND THAT SAME TIME. SO THE ROAD, 82. HIGHWAY 6. THAT CONNECTS TUSCALOOSA TO BRENT. YOU SHOULD NOT BE DRIVING ON THAT ROAD. THE CENTER OF CIRCULATION IS HEADED YOUR WAY PRETTY SOON. FOR THE MOMENT, I'M NOT SEEING A REALLY STRONG INDICATION OF ANY LOFTED DEBRIS. I'M NOT PICKING UP ON A TORNADO DEBRIS SIGNATURE HERE ON THIS PRODUCT. WE NEED TO TREAT THIS AS A TORNADO THAT COULD BE ON THE GROUND AT ANY TIME. DOWNTOWN TUSCALOOSA AND BRENT ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS LINE. THIS DOES INCLUDE THE CITY OF HULL. YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON. MAKE SURE YOU GET TO THAT SAFE PLACE NOW. I'M CIRCLING THE AREA OF ROTATION HERE. I'M GOING TO TRACK IT NORTHEASTWARD. GOING TO BE HEADED IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF F THE CITY OF HAGLER HERE. >> WE KNOW WE HAVE INJURIES NOW IN HALE COUNTY. THANK YOU, ANGIE. WE HAVE DO... WE DO HAVE REPORTS OF INJURIES FROM THE WEDGEWORTH-SAWYERVILLE AREA. THE E.M.A. DIRECTOR WILL BE ON THE LINE IN A SECOND. EVAN IS IN THE PROCESS OF GOING DOWN TOWARD WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYERVILLE. TO CHECK ON THAT DAMAGE. AND AGAIN, THAT IS HIS LIVE . >> STREAM. RUSSELL, THIS IS JAMES. CAN YOU HEAR ME? >> YES. >> IF YOU WOULD, GIVE US AN UPDATE ON WHAT HAS HAPPENED WITH THE TORNADO IN HALE COUNT Y? >> RUSSELL, THIS IS JAMES. CAN YOU HEAR ME? I KNOW IT IS AWFULLY HECTIC. AGAIN, RUSSELL IS THE E.M.A. DIRECTOR IN HALE COUNTY. I DON'T THINK HE CAN HEAR ME OR HE IS EITHER DISTRACTED. AND AGAIN, IF THEY HAVE INJURIES AND A MAJOR SITUATION, HE HAS TO FOCUS ON, YOU KNOW, GETTING PEOPLE TAKEN CARE OF HERE FIRST BEFORE HE TALKS TO THE MEDIA. HE DID TALK WITH OUR PRODUCER BACK IN THE BACK. HE DID CONFIRM THERE HAVE BEEN SOME INJURIES IN HALE COUNTY. HEY, RUSSELL. THIS IS JAMES SPAN. CAN YOU HEAR ME? (SIRENS) I DON'T THINK HE CAN. AGAIN, Y'ALL LET ME KNOW WHEN HE IS IN A POSITION TO TALK. OKAY. SO AGAIN, WHERE WE ARE NOW, THIS IS THE NEW TORNADO WARNING. AND AGAIN, THIS DOES INCLUDE THE FAR SOUTHEAST AND EAST PART OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. LET'S STRESS, AGAIN, THIS IS NOT CLOSE TO TUSCALOOSA. THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA. NORTHPORT. NOT CLOSE. THERE IS NO DANGER HERE. NO DANGER WHATSOEVER. IN FACT, THERE IS A CHANCE THIS THING MIGHT STAY EXCLUSIVELY IN BIB COUNTY. IT MAY CLIP A CULL COUPLE OF SEG MGHTS OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. AND AGAIN, WE HAVE THE MERCEDES PLANT HERE. YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON. IF YOU ARE IN VANCE. OKAY. HEY, RUSSELL. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? RUSSELL, CAN YOU HEAR ME? >> YUP. >> I THINK WE ARE STILL... HE IS STILL NOT ABLE TO HEAR ME FOR SOME REASON. LET'S GO TO EVAN. DO WE HAVE EVAN ON THE LINE? HE HAS A TREE DOWN. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE THAT IS. EVAN, CAN YOU HEAR US? >> HAY, JAMES, I CAN HEAR YOU. NOT TO SOUND DRAMATIC OR ANYTHING, BUT I WAS SITUATED IN FRONT OF THIS DO NOT PASS SIGN. IT SMELLS ALL OF FRESH PINE HERE. NOT MAJOR DAMAGE. BUT I CAME OVER THE HILL. AND THIS IS ABOUT TWO MILES SOUTH OF WHERE I WAS WHEN I TALKED WITH YOU LAST. ON HIGHWAY 69 HERE. AND SEVERAL PINE TREES HAVE BROKEN OFF. THIS IS THE FIRST ONE I SAW IN THE ROADWAY. I THOUGHT I WOULD STOP, GET A PICTURE. THAT NOTICEABLE SMELL OF FRESH PINE IS OUT HERE. THAT TELLS ME AS THIS WAS WEAKENING, IT PROBABLY CROSSED OVER HIGHWAY 69 RIGHT HERE. LIKE I SAID, TWO MILES SOUTH OF WHERE I WAS BEFORE. AGAIN, I HAVE SEEN SEVERAL EMERGENCY VEHICLES GOING PAST. YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THOSE IF MY STREAM IS STILL UP. I HAVE SEVERAL VEHICLES STILL ATTEMPTING TO GO DOWN THIS ROAD. I'M CURRENTLY ON MY WAY TO SAWYERVILLE. IF I SEE ANY OTHER DAMAGE, THOUGH,LY STOP AND GIVE YOU A REFERENCE POINT. . >> OKAY. THANK YOU, EVAN. AND AGAIN, WE DO HAVE REPORTS OF INJURIES. AROUND SAWYERVILLE AND WEDGE PORITH. YOU CONTINUE DOWN IN THAT DIRECTION. WE WILL WATCH YOUR STREAM. >> YOU NEED TO INTERRUPT, PLEASE DO. SO AGAIN, BACK TO THE FULL SCREEN HERE. WE WILL TAKE THIS FULL. AGAIN, WE WILL WATCH EVAN'S STREAM. >> HE COMES UP ON SOMETHING, WE WILL LET YOU KNOW. AGAIN, THIS IS YOUR POLYGON. THE GOOD NEWS, THE VELOCITY HAS COME DOWN. THIS THING HAS CYCLED DOWN AND CYCLED BACK UP. THAT IS THE RIGHT DECISION HERE. TO GO AHEAD AND ISSUE THE WARNING. WE HAVE A TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF BIB COUNTY. LET'S STRESS THAT CENTERVILLE AND BRENT, YOU ARE NOT IN THE POLYGON. YOU ARE NOT IN THIS POLYGON. TUSCALOOSA, NORTHPORT, YOU ARE NOT IN THE POLYGON. THIS IS FOR THE AREA IF IN BETWEEN THOSE TWO CITIES. THIS WOULD INCLUDE WOODSTOCK, VANCE, DUNCANVILLE, HAGLER. THAT IS THE PRIMARY CONCERN HERE. MOST LIKELY, THE CIRCULATION WILL BE PASSING THROUGH EXTREME NORTHERN BIB COUNTY. PROBABLY UP HERE MAYBE TOWARD WOODSTOCK AND BIBVILLE. WEST BLOCKTON. CENTERVILLE, BRENLT, YOU ARE NOT IN THIS POLYGON. YOU MIGHT HEAR OLD LEGACY SYSTEMS THAT WARN FOR AN ENTIRE COUNTY. WE WARN FOR SPECIFIC AREAS. ALL RIGHT. RUSSELL, CAN YOU HEAR ME? THIS IS JAMES. >> HI, JAMES. CAN YOU HEAR ME? >> YES, I. CAN IF YOU WOULD GIVE US A QUICK... YES. GIVE US A QUICK SUMMARY OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN HALE COUNTY, RUSSELL. >> HEY, JAMES. >> YES. >> I DON'T THINK HE CAN HEAR ME. IT IS VERY CHAOTIC AFTER A TORNADO COMES THROUGH. THE COMMUNICATION IS DISRUPTED. >> WE ARE GOING TO MULTIPLE ENTRAPMENTS. IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. HIGHWAY 14. LOOKS LIKE A RELATIVELY LARGE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN. WE HAVE SEVERAL INJURIES AND SEVERAL ENTRAPMENTS. I'M GOING TO BE ON THE SCENE IN ABOUT A MINUTE. AT ONE OF THE ENTRAPMENTS. >> OKAY. THIS IS AN OPERATION THAT IS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS. DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HOW MANY INJURIES? >> WHAT I AUTOPSY UNDERSTAND... WHAT I UNDERSTAND IT IS SEVERAL HOMES IN THE AREA. >> DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY INJURIES, RUSSELL? >> THANK YOU. . >> I DON'T THINK HE CAN HEAR ME. WE HEARD FROM, AGAIN, THAT IS THE E.M.A. DIRECTOR REPORTING MULTIPLE ENTRAPMENTS AND INJURIES IN THE SAWYERVILLE, WEDGEWORTH AREA OF HALE COUNTY. IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LARGE TORNADO. WE HAVE REPORTS THAT THAT IS THE CASE. HE IS ALMOST ON THE SCENE THERE. EVAN WILL BE THERE SOON. HE WAS VERY CLOSE TO THIS TORNADO ON HIGHWAY 69. AGAIN, THAT TORNADO IS NOW IN THE FOR A NORTHEASTERN PART OF HALE COUNTY. THIS IS BIB COUNTY. THIS IS TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. AGAIN, NOBODY SHOULD BE ON U.S. 82 BETWEEN BRENT AND TUSCALOOSA. THIS IS THE COUNTY LINE. AND AGAIN THAT, WILL BE COPPING OUT MAINLY ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHERN BIB COUNTY. KIND OF CLIPPING THE SOUTHEASTERN COLONELLER OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. AGAIN, WE STRESS THE CITY OF TUSCALOOSA IS IN NO DANGER HERE. AGAIN, THESE OLDER LEGACY SYSTEMS, YOU MIGHT HEAR OF A WARNING FOR TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. YOU ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THIS. TUSCALOOSA, NORTHPORT, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, IF YOU HAVE STUDENTS THERE, SONS OR DAUGHTERS, THEY ARE FINE. THIS WILL NOT BE CLOSE TO THEM. TAYLOR IS SHOWING THE APPROXIMATE MOTION OF THIS TORNADO. AND AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THAT IT IS MOVING MAINLY THROUGH NORTHERN BIB. MAYBE CLIPPING THAT FAR SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF US THE CAN LOO SO COUNTY. NEAR DOES DUN VANVILLE. THIS WILL PASS FAR SOUTH OF DUN VANVILLE. THIS HAS STAYED TOGETHER. IT HAS BEEN HOLDING IN THERE PRETTY MUCH THE WHOLE TIME. IT ORIGINATED BEFORE 1:00 THIS AFTERNOON. THIS IS HIGHWAY 5 RIGHT HERE. INTERSTATE 5920 AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN. THIS IS U.S. 82. THE NEXT HIGHWAY WILL BE U.S. 82. NEXT HIGHWAY WILL BE ALABAMA HIGHWAY 5. OF COURSE, IF THIS THING CONTINUES, IT IS GOING TO BE A PROBLEM FOR THE BIRMINGHAM METRO. JUST KIND OF A HEADS-UP FOR THE BIRMINGHAM METRO IN AN HOUR OR SO. IF THIS THING CONTINUES. IT COULD BE A PROBLEM ULTIMATELY, FOR JEFFERSON OR SHELBY COUNTIES. BUT AGAIN, WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW IS A TORNADO WARNING. FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN BIB AND THE FAR, FAR EAST AND SOUTHEAST CORNER OF US THE CAN LOO SO COUNTY. AND THESE WARNINGS WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 3:15 THIS AFTERNOON. RIGHT NOW, IT IS 2:28. AGAIN, IT PROBABLY WILL BE CANCELED BEFORE THAT. BECAUSE THIS THING IS MOVING ALONG AT A PRETTY GOOD CLIP. AGAIN, TAYLOR HAS THE VELOCITY COUPLET CIRCLED RIGHT HERE. LET'S LOOK AT THE CORRELATION, THE DEBRIS-TRACKER, IF YOU WILL. CLEARLY, WE HAVE LOST THE DEEP SIGNATURE HERE. THAT DEEP, DEEP SIGNATURE FOR THE MOMENT IS NOT THERE. BUT AGAIN, WE STRESS THIS THING HAS BEEN CYCLIC. WE HAVE SEEN THE TORNADO COME AND GO. OVER THE PAST HOUR AND A. WHAT FOR THE MOMENT, WE ARE NOT GETTING THAT REALLY STRONG DEBRIS SIGNATURE. THAT COULD CHANGE. IT LOOKED NASTY. JUST HORRIBLE COMING THROUGH PARTS OF HALE COUNTY EARLIER WHEN IT CROSSED OVER HIGHWAY 14 AROUND WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYERVILLE. THIS IS THE FOR A NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF HALE COUNTY. THAT WILL BE CROSSING OVER INTO NORTHERN BIB INTO SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. JUST CLIPPING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER. GOING TO BE CROSSING U.S. 82. ULTIMATELY, COMING OUT ACROSS ALABAMA HIGHWAY 5. MAYBE NORTH OF WEST BLOCKTON, UP TOWARD WOODSTOCK. THAT IS THE CURRENT SITUATION HERE. I WANT TO STRESS THERE ARE NO OTHER WARNINGS IN THE WHOLE STATE. BUT JUST QUICKLY, LET'S LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE, TAYLOR. WHILE WE HAVE THE THING CYCLING DOWN FOR A SECOND HERE. A REFLECTIVITY OF OUR TV MARKET. YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING. IT MIGHT BE THUPPEDDERING AT YOUR HOUSE. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE STORM IS SEVERE. THE RAIN MIGHT BE HEAVY. THERE IS NO SEVERE WEATHER ANYWHERE IN THE STATE EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE SPOT. THAT IS IT. THAT IS THE REASON WE ARE FOCUSED ON THAT. SO AGAIN, THERE IS YOUR BIG PICTURE. THUNDER, LIGHTNING, HEAVY RAIN. LET'S LOOK AT YOUR TORNADO WATCH QUICKLY AGAIN. A TORNADO WATCH BRACE BY A CLIS ... BASICALLY FROM BIRMINGHAM TO MOBILE. THE COUNTIES IN GREEN, THAT IS A FLOOD WATCH. WE COULD SEE ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. >> YOU ARE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA, THERE COULD BE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS. SO FAR, SO GOOD. NO FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS. THE ONLY ISSUE THAT, TORNADO WARNING. LET'S GO BACK TO THE REFLECTIVITY. AGAIN, PLEASE DON'T TRY AND GO OUT AND LOOK FOR THIS. THIS IS A RAIN-WRAPPED TORNADO. IF YOU WATCHED EVAN'S LIVE-STREAM, YOU SAW... YOU CAN'T SEE ANYTHING. I MEAN, YOU CAN'T SEE YOUR HAND OUT HERE. NOW, THE RAIN HAS CALMED DOWN. HE IS IN THE PROCESS OF GOING BACK DOWN TOWARD SAWYERVILLE AND WEDGEWORTH TO CHECK OUT THE DAMAGE. WE HAVE ENRAM THEMENTS. WE HAVE INJURIES IN THERE. IT IS NOT A GOOD SITUATION. AGAIN, EVAN WILL REPORT LIVE FROM THAT PART OF THE COUNTY HERE SOON. IF WE HAVE A TORNADO DOWN RIGHT NOW, IT IS ALL WRAPPED IN RAIN. IT IS A WASTE OF TIME. AGAIN, WE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR HELP IF YOU KNOW ANYBODY IN THESE POLYGONS THAT WE POINT OUT ON TELEVISION TODAY. YOU CAN BE THE HERO. YOU CAN CALL THEM OR YOU CAN TEXT THEM AND LET THEM KNOW. A LOT OF FOLKS THESE DAYS, THEY ARE WATCHING, YOU KNOW, CAT VIDEOS OR NETFLIX OR HULU OR WHATEVER. THEY DON'T WATCH LOCAL TELEVISION ANYMORE. AND THEY ARE TOTALLY OUT OF TOUCH. YOU HAVE TO STAY IN TOUCH ON A DAY WHEN THESE STORMS ARE DANGEROUS LIKE THIS. YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. SO AGAIN, HERE IS THE CURRENT ROTATION. IT IS VERY BROAD RIGHT NOW. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF DEBRIS BEING LOFTED AT THIS POINT. CYCLING DOWN. IT COULD CYCLE BACK UP. AND AGAIN, THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THIS IS THE RIGHT DECISION TO KEEP THE WARNING IN EFFECT. AND AGAIN, THE WARNING DOES INCLUDE TECHNICALLY, VANCE AND DUNCANVILLE. IN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. TECHNICALLY, BROOKWOOD. THE MOST LIKELY AREA WHERE THIS THING IS GOING TO BE GOING, IT IS NEAR THE TUSCALOOSA-BIB COUNTY LINE. BUT AS I ALWAYS SAY, RESPECT THE POLYGON. >> YOU ARE IN THAT, STAY IN A SAFE PLACE. THE POLYGON WILL BE REDUCED IN SIZE AS IT MOVES ALONG. AND WE CAN ELIMINATE SOME FOLKS FROM THIS. WE HAVE SEEN THAT DURING THE COURSE OF THE DAY TODAY. OBVIOUSLY, IF YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON, SMALL ROOM. HALL CLOSE SET THE... CLOSET BATHROOM. NEAR THE CENTER. NO WINDOWS. WEAR A HELMET. BATTING HELMET, BICYCLE HIT M. WE HAVE HAD SOME PEOPLE HURT TODAY. INJURIES ARE TYPICALLY TO THE HEAD, NECK, SKULL REGION. IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT HELMET ON, THAT INCREASES YOUR CHANCE OF BEING INJURED SERIOUSLY. OR LOSING YOUR LIFE. IT LOOKS LIKE TAYLOR EXTENDING THE WATCH LITTLE BIT. EXPLAIN WHAT THEY ARE DOING HERE >> THEY ARE. THEY ARE EXTENDING IT FARTHER EASTWARD. STILL LASTING THROUGH 6:00 P.M. I'M WAITING FOR IT TO POP UP ON THE MAP HERE. IT WILL POP UP, POPULATING AS SOME OF THOSE NEW COUNTIES. THAT IS GOING TO INCLUDE CLAY, RANDOLPH, RUSSELL, ST. CLAIRE, TALLADEGA. THOSE ARE THE COUNTIES IN THE AREA WE ARE GOING TO BE WATCHING. THAT IS GOING TO POP UP UP HERE. WE ARE EXTENDING THE WATCH EASTWARD BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO SEE THE POSSIBILITY. SOMETHING ELSE I WANTED TO NOTE, NOW, THERE IS NOT A WARNING FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY RIGHT NOW. WE DON'T HAVE A TORNADO WARNING IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. WE ARE GETTING MESSAGES THAT THE TORNADO SHELTERS ARE NOW OPEN IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. THEY ARE OPENING THOSE SHELTERS. >> YOU LIVE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, WE ARE WATCHING THIS STORM TO YOUR SOUTHWEST. IF THAT WARNING HAPPENS TO BE EXTENDED, WE WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THOSE SHELTERS ARE NOW OPEN. THEY ARE GOING THROUGH THOSE PRECAUTIONS. THERE IS THAT NEW TORNADO WATCH. THAT IS POPPING UP. IT DOES INCLUDE SAINT CLAIRE. TALLADEGA. CLAY. AND SOUTHWARD. WE ARE LOOKING AT REALLY THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE AREA. EVERYBODY ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF I-20 NOW INCLUDED IN THAT NEW TORNADO WATCH, LASTING THROUGH 6:00 P.M. WITH AN ONGOING TORNADO WARNING RIGHT ALONG THE TUSCALOOSA LINE AT THIS POINT. >> I WANT TO GO TO EVAN. EVAN, AGAIN, FIRST OFF, LET ME JUST SAY THE CIRCULATION CONTINUES TO WEAKEN. WHICH IS GREAT. BUT STILL, THIS COULD RECYCLE AT ANY TIME. AND YOU NEED TO TREAT THAT AS IF WE HAVE A TORNADO THERE. SO AGAIN, EXTREME SOUTHEAST TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN THE POLYGON. STAY SHELTERED. EVAN, LET'S GO TO YOU. TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN ON YOUR JOURNEY TOWARD WEDGEWORTH AND SAWYERVILLE. >> ALL RIGHT, JAMES. I WAS ABOUT MILE MARKER 121. THAT WAS NORTH ON ALABAMA 9. AS I GOT TO MILE MARKER 119, THAT IS WHERE THE START OF THE DEBRIS WAS. IN BETWEEN MILE MARKER 119 AND 118 WAS WHERE THAT PINE TREE WAS IN THE ROAD. THAT ENDS UP ABOUT TEN MILES NORTH OF GREENSBORO. KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE HERE. THAT APPEARS TO BE WHERE THE STORM WAS LIFTING OR WEAKENING. BECAUSE WE HAD A COUPLE OF PINE TREES DOWN. NOW, KEEP IN MIND, THIS THOROUGHFARE GOES NORTH SOUTH. I WASN'T ABLE TO GO BACK TO THE WEST JUST YET. I AM NOW OUT OF WHERE THE TRACK WOULD BE. I'M HEADED SOUTH. I'M A MILE SOUTH OUTSIDE OF GREENSBORO. LY HEAD BACK TOWARDS SAWYERVILLE HERE IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. AND WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. MINOR DAMAGE ALONG 69. AS YOU POINTED OUT. IT WAS WEAKENING. BETWEEN MILE MARKER 118 AND 120, APPEARS TO BE WHERE IT CROSSED OVER 69 HERE IN HALE COUNTY. >> ALL RIGHT, EVAN. THANK YOU. EVAN IS ON THE WAY TO WHERE WE HAVE HAD INJURIES AND MAJOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AND ENTRAPMENT IN SAWYERVILLE, WEDGEWORTH. THAT AREA ALONG HIGHWAY 14. WHEN HE GETS BACK IN THE AREA, WE WILL REJOIN HIM. BUT AGAIN, OUR OBVIOUS FOCUS IS ON THE CURRENT SITUATION THAT INVOLVES A TORNADO WARNING NOW. FOR EXTREME, EXTREME NORTHEAST HALE COUNTY. EXTREME SOUTHEAST US THE CAN LOO SO COUNTY AND NORTHERN BIB COUNTY. AND AGAIN, THE CIRCULATION NOT LOOKING IMPRESSIVE. LET'S LOOK AT THE CAR CORRELATION. CHRIS DOWN AT THE WEATHER SERVICE SAID WE MIGHT BE SEEING A LOWERED C.C. AGAIN WITH THIS STORM. AND AGAIN, RIGHT HERE IS WHERE WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT. THAT IS A SMALL TDS AGAIN WITH THAT CELL IN FAR NORTHEASTERN HALE COUNTY. NEAR THE POINT, THE RICH THELE POINT WHERE TUSCALOOSA, HALE, AND BIB COUNTIES COME TOGETHER. THAT IS RIGHT HERE. DUNCANVILLE. THIS IS HAGLER. AGAIN, THAT IS WHY WE ARE SAYING EVEN IF THE VELOCITIES COME DOWN, EVEN IF IT LOOKING MORE MORE DISORGANIZED, DON'T COME OUT OF YOUR SAFE PLACE. AS LONG AS YOU ARE IN A TORNADO WARNING, YOU HAVE TO STAY IN THAT THING. UNTIL THE WARNING IS CANCELED OR IT EXPIRES. AND THAT POTENTIAL TORNADO, AND AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THE NEW SCAN HAS THE POSSIBLE TORNADO RIGHT THERE AT THAT TRIPLE POINT. WHERE TUSCALOOSA, BIB, AND HALE COUNTIES COME TOGETHER. THAT WILL BE CROSSING U.S. 82 IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. THAT WILL BE CROSSING NEAR HAGLER, A LITTLE BELOW DUNCANVILLE. CLEARLY, WE DON'T WANT ANYBODY DRIVING RIGHT NOW ON U.S. 82. BETWEEN BRENT AND US THE CAN LOO SO. TUSCALOOSA. NOBODY SHOULD BE ON 82 HERE. AGAIN, WE ARE STARTING TO SEE EVIDENCE THAT THIS THING IS SPHINNING UP AGAIN. DEBRIS BEING LOFTED. PARTS OF TREES, TREE LIMBS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. THIS SPINS OVER A FAIRLY SPARSELY POPULATED PART OF THE STATE. SO AGAIN, WE HAVE ONE TORNADO WARNING IN THE WHOLE STATE. THAT IS IT. THE REASON WE ARE FOCUSING ON THIS IS BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER DANGEROUS STORM STATEWIDE. WE HAVE ONE. IT IS EASY TO FOCUS ON. THAT WE ARE THANKFUL FOR. THAT IF WE HAVE ANY OTHERS, WE WILL LET YOU KNOW. THERE IS RAIN AND THERE IS LIGHTNING. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE STORM IS DANGEROUS. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO MELT WHEN IT IS RAINING HEAVILY. THAT IS NOT DANGEROUS. THIS IS WHAT'S DANGEROUS. NO TRAVEL ON U.S. 82 BETWEEN BRENT AND DUNCANVILLE. NEXT UP, THAT WILL BE CROSSING NORTHERN BIB: ULTIMATELY, THIS WILL BE GETTING CLOSE TO WOODSTOCK AND KATHY JUNCTION. OFF LOT OF BUSINESSES THERE. YOU HAVE A LOT OF TRAVELERS THERE. THAT IS GETTING INTO A VERY DENSELY POPULATED PART OF THE WORLD HERE. JUST UNDERSTAND THIS PARTICULAR TORNADO WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST. IT COULD, IN FACT,... WE HAVE A WELL-DEAF FINED TDS AGAIN ON RADAR. WE HAVE A CONFIRMED TORNADO ON RADAR NOW. IT IS MOVING UP INTO THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. APPROACHING THE AREA. PAST DUNCANVILLE. THERE IS YOUR TDS. THAT WILL BE CROSSING HIGHWAY 82. NEAR THE BIB COUNTY LINE. SO AGAIN, THE SCREAMING MESSAGE HERE, IF YOU KNOW ANYBODY THAT IS TRAVELING ON U.S. 82, THEY HAVE TO GET OFF THE HIGHWAY. AND THEY HAVE TO STOP AND GET INTO SOME RESTAURANT, GAS STATION, ANY PLACE THAT OFFERS SHELTER. YOU CAN'T BE IN A CAR WHEN THIS THING CROSSES OVER. A TORNADO LIKELY CROSSING RIGHT OVER U.S. 82 IN ABOUT THREE, FOUR, FIVE MINUTES. WE HAVE HAD SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. LET ME JUST SAY WE CAN GIVE AN ALL-CLEAR NOW TO HALE COUNTY. THIS IS HALE COUNTY. THAT IS THE TORNADO. HALE COUNTY, ALL CLEAR. YOU ARE GOOD. ANYWHERE IN HALE COUNTY, THE RISK HAS ENDED FROM THIS TORNADO. THESE ARE APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIMES FROM SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM. HAGLER, COMING UP ON YOU RIGHT NOW. AGAIN, IF THE THING HOLDS TOGETHER, IT WILL BE UP THERE TOWARD WOODSTOCK AND BIBVILLE. CATHY JUNCTION AROUND 3:00 THIS AFTERNOON. AGAIN, THIS IS IN A VERY... YOU GET A LOT OF BUSINESSES HERE. THAT IS INTERSTATE 5920. WOODSTOCK SITS HERE. IF YOU ARE UP HERE, YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON. YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON. LAKE VIEW, YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON. THIS RUNS RIGHT UP TO THE JEFFERSON COUNTY LINE. YOU HAVE TO STAY SHELTERED. UNDERSTAND AS LONG AS YOU ARE IN THIS POLYGON, YOU HAVE TO BE IN A SAFE PLACE. AND REMEMBER, A SAFE PLACE IS NOT A MANUFACTURED HOME. THEY ARE WONDERFUL PLACES TO LIVE. GREAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING. FOR A TORNADO, YOU CAN'T STAY THERE. SAME THING FOR A CAR. YOU HAVE TO BE IN A SHELTER. I NOTICED A TWEET FROM A MINUTE AGO. THE TOWN OF WOODSTOCK HAS OPENED A TORNADO SHELTER AT WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. SO IF YOU ARE IN WOODSTCK, ANYWHERE UP HERE, GO TO WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. THE COMMUNITY SHELTER IS OPEN RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE OPEN FOR ANYBODY TO COME IN AND STAY SAFE FROM THIS. AND IF YOU CAN'T FIND A COMMUNITY SHELTER OR DON'T KNOW OF ONE, GO TO A GAS STATION. ANY PLACE LIKE THAT. A SITE-BUILT STRUCTURE. GET INTO A SMALL PART OF THE BUSINESS, THAT BUILDING. YOU WILL HAVE PROTECTION FROM THIS. BUT CLEARLY, WE NOW HAVE A TORNADO THAT IS DOWN AGAIN. THIS IS A TORNADO THAT IS DOWN. WE HAVE DEBRIS THAT IS BEING LOFTED. THAT IS VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. VERY DANGEROUS. THIS THING HAS RESULTED IN MANY INJURIES. BACK AT HALE COUNTY. THIS THING HAS RESULTED IN STRUCTURAL DAMAGE IN HALE COUNTY WHEN IT LOOKED JUST LIKE THAT. COMING THROUGH SAWYERVILLE. AND NOW THAT IS GOING TO BE CROSSING U.S. 82 IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. THEN ULTIMATELY COMING HERE INTO NORTHERN BIB COUNTY. BACK IN THE BACK, WE HAVE OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT. IF WE HAVE ANYBODY NEAR THIS, LET US KNOW. WE CAN TAKE A LIVE-STREAM. WE HAVE HAD THESE THINGS TODAY IN A FAIRLY SPARSELY POPULATED PART OF THE STATE. WE ARE HAVING TO DEPEND ON CREWS IN THE FIELD. BUT WE KNOW FROM SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDIES, YOU TEND TO REACT BETTER IF YOU SEE A TORNADO LIVE-STREAM. WE HAVE CAN'T DO THAT TODAY EVEN IF WE ARE LOOKING RIGHT AT IT BECAUSE THEY ARE RAIN-WRAPPED. WE CAN'T DO THAT A LOT. WE WILL TRY OUR BEST TO DO THAT. SO AGAIN, WE HAVE A TORNADO THAT IS APPROACHING U.S. HIGHWAY 82. SOUTHEASTERN US THE CAN LOO SO COUNTY. MOVING UP INTO NORTHERN BIB COUNTY. IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF WOODSTOCK, NORTH BIB, BIBVILLE, CAFFEY JUNCTION. MOST LIKELY, THIS IS GOING TO BE PASSING NORTH OF WEST BLOCKTON. AND AGAIN, THIS IS YOUR NEW POLYGON. I'M SORRY. THAT IS THE FAN THAT TAYLOR HAS DRAWN HERE. I WANT TO POINT OUT, AGAIN, THE POLYCON GONE CONTINUES TO BE REFINED. BRENT, CENTERVILLE, YOU DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING. THIS WILL NOT AFFECT YOU. THE LINES FLASHING RED, THIS DOES INCLUDE VANCE. THE MERCEDES PLANT IS RIGHT HERE. FOR THE MERCEDES PLANT, AGAIN, IF YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON, YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH YOUR PROCEDURE. THEY HAVE A VERY GOOD PROCEDURE FOR TORNADO WARNINGS. THEY HAVE DONE IT BEFORE. THEY WILL DO IT AGAIN. THEY HAVE TO DO THAT TODAY. AND AGAIN, COMING, YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON. IF YOU ARE IN THIS, YOU NEED TO GO AHEAD AND STAY IN YOUR SAFE PLACE. AND I'M WATCHING EVAN'S LIVE FEED. LET'S TAKE YOU REAL-QUICK. IF WE CAN POP UP EVAN ON THE LIVE VIEW. I TAKE THAT BACK. THIS IS SOMEBODY ELSE'S. LOOKS LIKE THAT IS IN KOLERA. THAT WAS BILL'S FEED. IT IS FROZEN UP RIGHT NOW. AGAIN, AS SOON AS EVAN GETS INTO SAWYERVILLE-WEDGEWORTH, THIS IS NOT THIS IS FAR SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. AGAIN, THE TORNADO IS CROSSING 82 IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. THE NEXT HIGHWAY OF CONCERN IS GOING TO BE ALABAMA HIGHWAY 5. THEN ULTIMATELY, INTERSTATE 5920. THEN REMEMBER, LET'S PULL THIS OUT TO SHOW BIRMINGHAM. I WANT TO SHOW IF THIS THING HANGS IN THERE, WHERE IT COULD GO NEXT. OKAY? TORNADO HERE. WE WILL SEE HOW THIS PLAYS OUT. WE HOPE THIS DISSIPATES. IT SEEMS LIKE THIS THING IS RIDING SOME TYPE OF SMALL-SCALE BOUNDARY. TYPICALLY, FOR A STORM TO DO THIS ON A DAY LIKE TODAY, THERE HAS TO BE SOME TYPE OF EXTERNAL FORCE INVOLVED HERE. THE WINDS GET BACKED. A SMALL BOUNDARY IS PROBABLY DOING THAT TODAY. IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS RIDING THAT BOUNDARY. THAT IS YOUR TORNADO. AGAIN, THIS IS BASICALLY ON U.S. 82 RIGHT NOW. SO THIS HAS PRODUCED TREE DAMAGE IN SUMPTER COUNTY. MAJOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE IN HALE COUNTY. ON HIGHWAY 14, WEST OF GREENSBORO. NOW THE PARENT STORM PRODUCING WHAT SHOULD BE ANOTHER TORNADO THAT IS COMING UP ON ON U.S. 82. SOUTH OF DUNCANVILLE DOWN TOWARD HAGLER. AND AGAIN, THIS WILL CONTINUE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. FOR A LOT OF YOU, IT IS RAINING. THERE IS THUNDER AND LIGHTNING. AGAIN, WE STRESS THERE IS NOTHING DANGEROUS ANYWHERE IN THE STATE EXCEPT FOR THIS. THAT IS IT. WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON WHAT'S LIFE-THREATENING AND DANGEROUS. WHEN WE, CAN WE WILL TRY AND SHOW A WIDER VIEW WITH THE RAIN. BUT AGAIN, THIS THING IS GOING TO... THIS IS HIGHWAY 5 HEIGHT RIGHT HERE. THIS IS U.S. 11 HERE. AGAIN, THE MERCEDES PLAN IS RIGHT HERE AT MY FINGERTIP. OBVIOUSLY, MERCEDES IS IN THE POLYGON. AND THEY DO HAVE A VERY GOOD JOB AT THAT PLANT OF SAFETY. THIS THING MIGHT TRY AND RIDE 20 INTO THE METRO. WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE THAT HAPPENS. THE BEST SCENARIO IS THAT THIS THING DISSIPATES. WE HOPE THAT IS THE CASE. I DO BELIEVE THE AIR IS A LITTLE MORE STABLE AS YOU GO FARTHER TO THE EAST TODAY. THE LATEST VALUES I SAW. BUT STILL, IF THERE IS A BOUNDARY INVOLVED, AND IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF INSTABILITY, THESE COLD SEASON SYSTEMS CAN PRODUCE SOME SURPRISING TORNADOES LIKE THIS ONE. IT DOESN'T TAKE A LOT OF INSTABILITY. IN THE COLD SEASON HERE. SO AGAIN, THIS IS THE ONLY WARNING IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE STATE. AND AS SOON AS WE GET INFORMATION FREEH VAN, WHEN HE GETS DOWN TOWARD SAWYERVILLE AND ALL THE DAMAGE THERE, WE ARE GOING TO GO BACK TO HIM BRIEFLY. AGAIN, OUR MAIN CONCERN IS WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE SO. AGAIN, THE LOWERED C.C.& WE LOOK AT THE VELOCITY DATA HERE. WE WILL GO FROM THE DEBRIS-TRACKER BACK TO VELOCITY. AS EXPECTED, THE VELOCITIES HAVE COME DOWN. AGAIN, THE BEST POSSIBLE THING TO HAPPEN HERE IS THE FACT THAT IT IS HITTING THIS STABLE AIR MORE STABLE AIR THAT IS TO THE EAST. IT JUST GOES AWAY. WE ARE DONE WITH IT. I SURE CAN'T PROMISE THAT. WE HAVE TO BE VIGILANT HERE. AND UNDERSTAND THIS WARNING WILL CONTINUE. IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL 3:15. RIGHT NOW, IT IS 2:47, AND NOTICE, THE WARNING RUNS UP TO THE JEFFERSON-SHELBY COUNTY LINE RIGHT HERE. THIS IS SHELBY COUNTY. THIS IS JEFFERSON COUNTY. THE NEXT COUNTIES IN LINE WITH THIS WOULD BE JEFFERSON, MAYBE PARTS OF NORTHERN SHELBY COUNTY. IF IT STAYS IN PLACE. AND AGAIN, THE GOOD NEWS HERE, IN THE LAST COUPLE OF VOLUME SCANS, THE VELOCITIES HAVE COME DOWN. WE HAVE LOST A LOT OF THE SIGNS OF DEBRIS BEING LOFTED HERE. THIS THING HAS DONE THIS MULTIPLE TIMES. IN ITS LIFE CYBERLE. AGAIN, BASED ON ITS HISTORY, WE HAVE TO TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY. AGAIN, THIS TORNADO HAS PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE IN PARTS OF HALE COUNTY. AREAS WEST OF GREENSBORO. DOWN HIGHWAY 14. DOWN TOWARDS SAWYERVILLE. AND WEDGEWORTH. WE HAD THE E.M.A. DIRECTOR ON THE LINE WITH US EARLIER. SAYING THERE IS INJURIES THERE. AND ENTRAPMENT. OF COURSE, HE DIDN'T HAVE NUMBERS. OBVIOUSLY, HE IS JUST GETTING ON THE SCENE. THAT IS A SIGN OF WHAT THIS THING HAS DONE. IT HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SOME MAJOR DAMAGE. BUT AGAIN, THE GOOD NEWS AT THE MOMENT, WE HAVE LOST A LOT OF THE TORNADO SIGNATURE HERE ON RADAR. WHICH IS GREAT. AGAIN, WE HOPE IT STAYS THAT WAY. IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US HERE, IT IS 2:48. EVAN IS OUT IN THE STORM-CHASER TODAY WITH BILL AND MANY OTHERS. WE ARE WORKING A SEVERE WEATHER EVENT. IT IS BASICALLY INVOLVING ONE STORM. WE HAD A TORNADO WARNING ISSUED FOR SUMPTER COUNTY A LITTLE BEFORE 1:00 IN FAR WEST ALABAMA. THE MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI TELEVISION MARKET. THE WARNINGS EXTENNED EXTENDED TO PARTS OF GREEN, HALE, EASTERN TUSCALOOSA AND BIB COUNTIES. THIS ONE STORM HAS CAUSED VERY MAJOR DAMAGE. BACK IN PARTS OF HALE COUNTY. AND AGAIN, WE WILL GET SOME IMAGES HERE COMING IN SOON. TO SHOW YOU WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE HERE. THE GOOD NEWS, THE CIRCULATION HAS WEAK AND LOT HERE. AND WE HOPE IT STAYS THAT WAY. LET'S LOOK AT THE CORRELATION REALLY QUICKLY. TO SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. YOU KNOW, IT IS GETTING AWFULLY NOISY RIGHT NOW. WE DON'T HAVE THAT REALLY STRONG ISOLATED LOWERING LIKE WE HAD BEFORE. THE WAY THIS WORKS, IT PUTS ALL THE RETURNS ENERGY IN A BIN. >> IT SEES SOMETHING DIFFERENT, IT IF IT DOESN'T CORRELATE WITH EVERYTHING ELSE, YOU HAVE A LOWERED VALUE. IT IS NOT A RAINDROP. NOT AN ICE PELLET. IT IS NOT A HYDROMETEOR. IT IS PART OF A BUILDING. IT IS A TREE LIMB. SOMETHING ELSE. THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN ACCURATE SINCE THE POLE POLARIZATION RADAR CAME INTO PLAY SEVERAL YEARS AGO. IT IS GETTING AWFULLY NOISY AT THIS POINT. YOU WANT TO LOOK AT VELOCITY AND C.C. IN THE SAME MANNER HERE. YOU ARE JUST NOT SEEING A LOT HERE. TAYLOR, THIS IS GOOD NEWS, I THINK. WOULD YOU NOT AGREE? >> THIS DOES LOOK TO BE GOOD NEWS. I DO KNOW THAT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS NOW CALLING THIS RADAR INDICATED. IT IS NOT CONFIRMED AT THIS POINT. WE GET THAT CONFIRMATION WHEN WE EITHER GET GROUND REPORTS FROM A STORM-SPOTTER OR WE GET THAT TDS SHOAFING UP. WE DON'T HAVE THAT AT THIS POINT. THIS VELOCITY IS FAIRLY NOISY. AS JAMES HAS SAID, FORECAST THESE... THIS STORM IN PARTICULAR, HAS BEEN CYCLING TODAY. THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHEN THE STORM IS GROUND. WE GET THAT STRONG ROTATION. THERE ARE OTHER TIMES WHEN IT HAS LIFTED. WE WILL KEEP AN EYE ON THE STORM AS IT KEEPS MOVING NORTHEASTWARD. TO SEE IF THIS CAN CYCLE BACK AND SEE IF THIS DOES TIGHTEN UP AGAIN. FOR THE MOMENT, IT DOES APPEAR TO BE FAIRLY QUIET. I'M GOING TO TAKE US OUT TO THE WIDE VIEW. WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT THE REFLECTIVITY. THIS IS THE ONLY WARNING FOR OUR PART OF THE STATE RIGHT NOW. INCLUDING PARTS OF US THE CAN LOO SO COUNTY. THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN EDGE OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY AND THE NORTHWESTERN THIRD OF BIB COUNTY. NOTICE, IF FOR SOME REASON, THE STORM DECIDES TO CYCLE, DOWNSTREAM FROM THIS WOULD BE SHELBY AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. AT THIS POINT, NO WARNINGS FOR YOU. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE STORMS WHERE WE WANT YOU TO PAY ATTENTION TO. BECAUSE IF THIS DOES STAY TOGETHER, THIS COULD PUT THE STORM CLOSE TO THE BIRMINGHAM METRO HERE IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ELSEWHERE, WE ARE A LOT OF RAIN. WE HAVE THUNDER OUT THERE. IT IS PROBABLY LOUD WHERE YOU ARE. WE ONLY HAVE THAT ONE MORNING... WARNING IN THE AREA RIGHT NOW. LY SHOW YOU REALLY QUICKLY WHAT WE HAVE IN TERMS OF THE TORNADO WATCH. IF YOU ARE JUST TUNING IN AND YOU HAVEN'T CHECKED ON THE FORECAST SINCE THIS MORNING, WE DO NOW HAVE A TORNADO WATCH THAT COVERS ALL OF OUR COUNTIES ALONG INTO THE SOUTH OF I-20. THAT HAS BEEN EXTENDED FARTHER EASTWARD TO. INCLUDE MUCH MORE OF OUR AREA, LASTING UNTIL 6:00 P.M. REMEMBER, A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADO WARNINGS ARE POSSIBLE. THAT WE HAVE THOSE INGREDIENTS. THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY SEE TORNADO WARNINGS TODAY. SO FAR, WE HAVE BEEN TRACKING THIS ONE STORM. THIS HAS BEEN FROM THE SAME STORM. ALL THE WAY FROM THE MISSISSIPPI WORLDER... BORDER ALL THE WAY ACROSS PARTS OF GREEN, HALE, AND NOW THAT WARNING FOR PARTS OF TUSCALOOSA AND BIB COUNTIES. AND I WANTED TO STRESS AGAIN, TUSCALOOSA, YOU ARE NOT IN THE POLYGON. THIS IS LOOKING REALLY MESSY. IT IS HARD TO PICK OUT WHERE THE CENTER OF THAT ROTATION IS. WE ARE NOT SEEING A WELL-DEAF FINED CENTER OF CIRCULATION AT THIS POINT. IS THIS JUST NOISE? THIS IS KIND OF HARD TO PICK OUT IF THIS IS JUST NOISE OR IF SOMETHING IS SHOWING UP HERE. LOOKS LIKE IT IS DISPLACED FROM WHERE WE SEE THE BEST VELOCITY HERE. AT THIS POINT, I'M NOT WILLING TO SAY THAT IS A CONFIRMED TDS WITH THIS. THAT IS LIKELY SOME NOISE BEING PICKED UP. IT COULD BE SOME LOFTED DEBRIS UP IN THE ATMOSPHERE. SOMETHING WE WILL KEEP AN EYE ON. I'LL KEEP WATCHING THIS THE NEXT COUPLE OF SCANS TO SEE IF WE CAN GET ANY MORE INDICATION WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS A TDS OR NOT. AT THIS POINT, BASED ON THE VELOCITY, NOT LOOKING LIKE A SUPER STRONG INDICATION OF ROTATION. WHAT I DO WANT TO POINT OUT IS I HAD THIS MAP PULLED UP. IT HAD THE WATCHES ON IT. YOU SAW THE YELLOW. THE YESLOW YELLOW WILL BE THE TORNADO WATCH. YOU ALSO SEE THE GREEN. WE HAVE HAD THIS FLOOD WATCH FOR A FEW DAYS NOW. IT IS GOING TO LAST THROUGH 9:00 A.M. TOMORROW. WE ARE GETTING A LOT OF RAIN ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA. WE HAVE HAD QUITE A WIT OF RAIN ALREADY. >> QUITE A FEW HOURS TO GO WITH THE RAIN AROUND. LOOKING LIKE WE CAN PICK OUT A LITTLE BIT BETTER WITH SOME ROTATION HERE. THIS LOOKS NOTHING LIKE IT DID A FEW SCANS AGO. WHEN WE HAD A STRONG ROTATION INDICATION. WE HAD THE TORNADO DEBRIS SIGNATURE SHOWING UP. WE ARE WATCHING THIS BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN CYCLING. AS YOU CAN SEE, I'M SEEING THAT GOOD INDICATION OF THAT POTENTIAL FOR VELOCITY COUPLET. IT IS DISPLACED FROM WHERE WE ARE SEEING THAT LOWERING C.C. THAT LOWERING C.C. RIGHT NOW,& OVER... THAT COULD BE LEFTOVER DEBRIS IN THE ATMOSPHERE. THAT STILL KIND OF LOFTED FROM WHEN THIS TORNADO DID TOUCH DOWN. AS JAMES TALKED ABOUT, WE HAVE EVAN ON HIS WAY TO SAWYERVILLE. WE HAVE CONFIRMED INJURIES. FROM SAWYERVILLE. FROM THIS STORM. WE HAD CONFIRMED DAMAGE FROM SAWYERVILLE. >> NOTICE IN THE WARNING NOW. JUST CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THEY HAVE REALLY LOWERED THE URGENCY OF THE MESSAGE HERE. STILL TAYLOR, LIKE WE TALK ABOUT ALL THE TIME, IF YOU ARE IN THIS POLYGON, STAY SHELTERED. UNTIL WE GIVE YOU THE ALL-CLEAR. THIS IS YOUR POLYGON. AGAIN, THIS IS THE VELOCITY. NOT SHOWING A TORNADO AT THIS POINT. LET'S LOOK AT THE REFLECTIVITY AT THIS POINT. IT IS POURING RAIN. THIS IS A SOAKER HERE. I MEAN, IT IS A BIG-TIME MESS. WE HAD SOME FLOODING ISSUES. I KNOW INVOLVED WITH THIS HEAVY RAIN COMING THROUGH. AT THIS MOMENT, WE DID NOT HAVE A TORNADO SIGNATURE HERE. IT IS NOT THERE. THERE IS SOME BROAD ROTATION IN SPOTS BACK THROUGH HERE. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL SPOT WHERE WE HAD THE NOR DAY DOE. IT IS PRETTY BROAD RIGHT NOW. THIS IS NOT YOUR CLASSIC TORNADO SIGNATURE. VELOCITIES ARE WAY DOWN. THAT IS GREAT. WE HOPE IT STAYS THAT WAY. WE ARE COMING UP ON 3:00. WE ARE AT 2:56. HOPEFULLY, THIS WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN. IT WON'T BE A PROBLEM FOR THE BIRMINGHAM METRO. AND AGAIN, THE AIR IS MORE STABLE IN THROUGH HERE. HOPEFULLY, WITH THAT INCREASEED STABILITY, WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE A BIG PROBLEM HERE WITH THIS CONTINUING. BUT AGAIN, AS LONG AS THAT POLYGON IS THERE, PLEASE STAY SHELTERED. UNTIL WE GIVE YOU AN ALL-CLEAR. OR THIS THING IS CANCELED OR EXPIRES. THE CURRENT EXPIRATION TIME SET FOR 3:15. THAT IS IN ABOUT 19 MINUTES. FROM NOW. AND THIS IS THE ONLY ISSUE IN THE WHOLE STATE. NOW THAT WE HAVE KIND OF LOST THE TORNADO SIGNATURE HERE, LET'S LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE. THE REFLECTIVITY FOR THE WHOLE TV MARKET. AND WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS WHAT YOU GET. IT IS JUST RAINING. KIND OF A COOL SOAKING RAIN ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE STATE. NORTHEAST ALABAMA. WE HAVE SOME HEAVY RAIN. PARTS OF HALE AND PERRY AND CHILTON COUNTIES. THERE IS SOME THUNDER AND LIGHTNING INVOLVED HERE. NOTHING SEVERE. RAIN FALLING IN NORTHWEST PARTS OF ALABAMA. A RAINY DAY HERE. THE ONLY CONCERN, THE ONLY SEVERE STORM IS THE ONE WEAPON FOCUSED ON. THIS THING ORIGINATED IN THE SUMPTER COUNTY A LITTLE BY EVER BEFORE 1:00. BASICALLY, IT WENT JUST LIKE THAT. THAT HAS BEEN THE TRACK OF THIS THING. NOW YOU CAN SEE, AND AGAIN, WE HAD NO TORNADO SIGNATURE RIGHT NOW. THE TORNADO WARNINGS STAY IN EFFECT. IF IT RECYCLES, IT WILL WIND UP COMING TOWARD BIRMINGHAM. HERE IT COMES. COMING THROUGH GREEN. AND HALE. RIGHT HERE. AND THIS IS COMING THROUGH, AGAIN, NORTHERN BIB. THIS IS WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. THAT IS THE HISTORY OF THIS ONE SEVERE STORM WE HAVE HAD TODAY. LET'S GO BACK TO OUR VELOCITY. WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. HOPEFULLY, WE CAN GIVE YOU A CANCELLATION HERE SOON. THAT WOULD BE NICE. IF WE COULD DO THAT. I SURE CAN'T PROMISE. THAT THERE ARE NO PROMISES IN THE WEATHER BUSINESS. I LEARNED THAT A LONG TIME AGO. THIS THING COULD RECYBERLE BACK UP IN A HEARTBEAT. THE RIGHT THING TO DO IS TO MAINTAIN YOUR LOCATION IN A SAFE PLACE HERE. AGAIN, EXTREME EASTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, NORTHERN BIB COUNTY. THERE IS NO WARNING HERE FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY. IT IS RAINING. THERE IS SOME THUNDER AND LIKE LIGHTNING. NO SEVERE WEATHER IN THE BIRMINGHAM METRO FOR NOW. AND WE WILL HAVE TO SEE WHAT THIS THING IS GOING TO DO AS IT PULLS ON TO THE NORTHEAST. KEEP AN EYE ON. THIS AGAIN, FOR NOW, NOTHING SEVERE GOING ON IN THE BIRMINGHAM METRO. THIS THING COULD RECYCLE. IT MIGHT. IT MIGHT NOT. WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE HOW IT BEHAVES HERE. AGAIN, WE HAVE THE TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME EASTERN US THE CAN LOO SO COUNTY. NORTHERN BIB COUNTY. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE CENTERVILLE, BRENT: THIS DOES INCLUDE WEST BLOCKTON, WOODSTOCK, GREEN POND. BIBVILLE. CAFFEY JUNCTION. DOES INCLUDE VANCE, LAKE VIEW. EVIDENCE RIGHT NOW THERE IS NOT A VERY TIGHT CIRCULATION IN HERE. AND WE ARE GETTING A GOOD LOOK AT THIS. YOU KNOW, EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON, WE TALKED ABOUT DOWN IN SUMMITTIER... SUMPTER COUNTY AND GREEN COUNTY, THE RADAR BEAMS OFF THE GROUND. NOW WE ARE LOW-LEVEL. >> WE ARE GETTING SOME INFO IN. HOOFLER CITY SCHOOLS ARE HOLDING THE BUSES UNTIL SOME WEATHER PASSES. >> SO IT SAFER FOR THE BUS DRIVERS ON THE ROADS AND I'M SURE WE HAVE A LIST OF THIS ON OUR WEBSITE IF YOU WANT TO LOOK FOR YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL. >> SO AGAIN I HAVE SEEN MULTIPLE SOURCES WITH THAT INFORMATION SOME OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS ARE HOLDING THE BUSES UP SO THIS WILL BE A DAY WHERE EVERYONE HAS TO BE PATIENT AND LIKE WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT SAFETY COMES FIRST FOR EVERYBODY AND WE ALWAYS WANT TO BE SAFE. SAFETY COMES FIRST. YOU MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION. SOME PEOPLE GET A LITTLE BIT MAD BUT IT'S OKAY. YOU HAVE TO KEEP EVERYONE SAFE BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THIS POINT WITH OUR STORM DOWN HERE THERE IS NOT A TORNADO SIGNATURE RIGHT NOW WE DON'T HAVE A TORNADO SIGNATURE THERE IS NO DEBRIS BEING LOFTED THIS COULD RECYCLE WE HAVE HAD SOME HORRIBLE DAMAGE HERE TO WE HAVE EVAN BY CHANCE ON THE LINE? I THINK WE HAD A SHIFT CHANGE. DAVID MIGHT BE WORKING AUDIO. AND OKAY. >> HE JUST TEXTED ME HE IS HAVING TROUBLE WITH HIS SIGNAL. >> THIS IS EVIDENCE SIGNAL AND THEY HAVE TAKEN A BIG TORNADO HIT THIS IS ALABAMA 14 GETTING TO THE TORNADO DAMAGED AREA TOWARDS SAWYER AVAILABLE Ã SAWYER VILLE ADA SOON AS WE CAN GET IT OUT OF THERE EVAN, I DON'T THINK EVAN CAN HEAR ME. >> Reporter: I AM HERE A MILE OUT OF SAWYERVILLE. I WILL TRY TO PAN OVER THIS LOOKS LIKE A CARPORT A COLLAPSED ROOF THEY ARE A MILE OUTSIDE OF SAWYERVILLE AND THERE'S EMERGENCY VEHICLES I WAS PASSED A SHERIFF'S DEPUTY THEY ARE TENDING TO VARIOUS THINGS HAPPENING HERE THIS IS THE FIRST I HAVE COME UPON IT AND IF YOU GO BACK THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE YOU ARE AT THE INTERSECTION WHICH IS THE DOWNTOWN AND I AM INCHING MY WAY THROUGH I SPOKE TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL AND IT SEEMS LIKE THINGS ARE IMPROVING THIS SEVERE THREAT HAS MOVED TO THE EAST AND YOU START TO REALIZE WHAT SORT OF DAMAGE THERE IS SO I WILL TRY TO TAKE ANY KIND OF PHOTOS I CAN. WHILE BEING RESPECTFUL TO THESE FAMILIES. JUST TO THE WEST NORTHWEST OF SAWYERVILLE. >> AS SOON AS EVAN GETS IN THE DAMAGED AREA WE WILL COME BACK TO THE CURRENT SITUATION THIS IS THE SAME STORM THAT CAUSED THE DAMAGE. HE IS IN THE MIDST OF THAT NEAR WEDGE WORTH AND THIS IS WEST OF GREENSBORO AND THIS IS A BIG TORNADO THE DEBRIS SIGNATURE LOOKED HORRIBLE WE HAVE HAD REPORTS OF ENTRAPMENT AND INJURIES AND WE ARE WATCHING SOME BROAD ROTATION AND THIS IS NOT A CLASSIC TORNADO SIGNATURE BUT BIRMINGHAM IS HERE AND JUST BROAD ROTATION NOT TOO FAR FROM MERCEDES AND IF YOU WERE IN THE POLYGON USED A SHELTER THIS WOULD INCLUDE VANCE, GREEN POND WOODSTOCK WEST BLOCKTON THERE IS THE BROAD ROTATION LAKEVIEW AND TUSCALOOSA COUNTY AND WE HOPE THAT IT STAYS DISORGANIZED AND THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE A WARNING FOR JEFFERSON BUT LET'S GIVE IT A FEW MORE MINUTES AND STAY WITH THIS THIS IS THE VARIOUS VELOCITY DISPLAYS THERE'S NOT MUCH OF A SIGN OF A PROBLEM HERE AT THIS POINT JUST BROAD ROTATION BUT BASED ON THE HISTORY YOU HAVE TO RESPECT THE STORM IT HAS BEEN WRITING AT BOUNDARY ABOUT IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE STABLE AND A DECREASE WILL RESULT IN THE STORM STAYING WEAK AND DISORGANIZED AND THAT MIGHT HAPPEN THE REST OF THE DAY AT THIS TORNADO WATCH WAS EXPANDED TO INCLUDE A LOT OF COUNTIES FROM BIRMINGHAM SOUTH INTO PARTS OF EAST ALABAMA THIS IS THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDING RANDOLPH, CLAY, TO ALLEGHENY ÃTALLADEGA, COUNTIES TO THE SOUTH AND THE COUNTIES IN YELLOW AND TO THE NORTH FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE WE HAVE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 9 AM. WANT TO TWO INCHES WILL BE FOLLOWING MAY BE CREATING SOME FLOODING ISSUES BUT THE ONLY ONE IS THAT ONE STORM SINCE IT CAME THROUGH SUMTER COUNTY AND THAT SOUTHWEST BIRMINGHAM IT HAS SHOWN SIGNS OF WEAKENING GREATLY THAT IS YOUR TORNADO WATCH AND WE HAVE RANDOLPH CLAY, TALLADEGA, SINCLAIR, TALLADEGA, AND DOWN TO THE SOUTH THIS MORNING IS SET TO EXPIRE IN NINE MINUTES AT 3:15 PM THERE IS BROAD ROTATION HERE COMING UP ON CAFFEY JUNCTION AND GREEN POND, WOODSTOCK, SO FAR NO SIGN OF IT TIGHTENING UP. IT'S A VERY BROAD AND THIS IS OKAY. THAT'S THE EXIT DOWN, THAT'S THE ALABAMA 216 EXIT THE 216 EXIT IS DOWN A LITTLE BIT FROM THERE BUT AGAIN WE ARE WATCHING AND THROUGH HERE WOODSTOCK, GREEN POND, BROAD ROTATION AND WE ARE WAITING TO SEE IF THINGS TIGHTEN UP AND SO FAR THEY HAVEN'T. AND AGAIN CHRIS THE MIC THE METEOROLOGISTS IN CHARGE OF THE WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HE WILL CLEAR SOME OF THE WESTERN COUNTIES SO AGAIN FOR WEST ALABAMA THE TORNADO WATCH WILL SOON BE CANCELED AND THEY ARE LOOKING AT THIS IT'S OBVIOUSLY WEAKENING AND RIGHT NOW THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF THE TORNADO BUT IN THE WORDS OF CHRIS THEY WILL LET IT GO THROUGH THE WARNING TIME SO EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T HAVE EVIDENCE OF A TORNADO THIS WILL GO FOR ANOTHER EIGHT MINUTES UNTIL 315 LET'S GO BACK TO THE LIVE SHOT I WANT TO SEE, CAN YOU HEAR US AND IF SO WHAT YOU HAVE DOWN THERE NOW? I THINK WE HAVE LOST HIM AND WHEN WE GET COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHED HE IS IN AN AREA THAT WILL BE HEAVILY DAMAGED TODAY WITH ENTRAPMENT AND INJURIES AND WESTERN PART OF HALE COUNTY NEAR SAWYER VILLE AND THIS IS ANOTHER ONE TODAY WE DON'T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE INJURIES ARE NOT MUCH BEYOND THAT THE FIRST RESPONDERS HAVE BEEN ON THE SCENE FOR 30 MINUTES TO AN HOUR AND HAVE THEY NEED TO DO THEIR JOB BUT WE WILL FIND OUT A LITTLE BIT LATER THEY HAVE TO DO SEARCH AND RESCUE WE ARE WATCHING BROAD ROTATION WE HAVE HAD TORNADO WARNING SINCE ABOUT 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON AT 3:08 PM THIS TORMENTED AND THE WEATHER SERVICE ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING THERE WAS SOME TREE DAMAGE AND NO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AND SOUTH OF LIVINGSTON IT CAME THROUGH SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTY AND HALE COUNTY IN THE INTENSIFIED BY THE TIME IT HIT THE WARRIOR RIVER AND IT PRODUCED A LOT OF DAMAGE AROUND SAWYERVILLE IT HAS WEEKEND A GOOD BIT AS IT IS APPROACHING THE BIRMINGHAM METRO BUT LOOK AT THAT. WATCH THIS THING COME RIGHT THROUGH HERE AND IT REALLY RAMPED UP THIS IS WHERE ALL THIS DAMAGE OCCURRED THIS IS WHERE IT WAS COMING THROUGH SAWYERVILLE AND WEDGE WORTH AND AGAIN, RIGHT THERE. AND IT KEPT ON CROSSING HIGHWAY 14 AND IT HAS PRODUCED DAMAGE ALONG HIGHWAY 69 SOME OF THE TREE DAMAGE AND THE VELOCITIES WERE DECREASING AT THAT POINT AND IT INCREASED AGAIN ACROSS HIGHWAY 82 AND HAS DECREASED AGAIN IT IS A CYCLING STORM HAS BEEN UP AND DOWN AND THE BROAD ROTATION IF YOU CAN CALL IT THAT IS AROUND CAFFEY JUNCTION GOING DOWN TOWARDS MERCEDES S INTERSECTION APPEAR WITH THE INTERSTATE 5920 AND US 11 THERE IS NOT MUCH EVIDENCE OF CIRCULATION AT THIS POINT SO IN ABOUT FIVE MINUTES THE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AND IF IT LOOKS LIKE THIS THEY WILL NOT BE EXTENDING IT NORMALLY THEY WOULD CANCEL THIS BUT BASED ON THE HISTORY TODAY THEY ARE GOING TO LEAVE IT UNTIL THE EXPIRATION TIME THEY WILL BE CLEARING SOME OF THE WESTERN COUNTIES AND WE HAVE HAD NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE TODAY OTHER THAN FROM THIS STORM TODAY VERY BROAD ROTATION. >> IT'S A SPINNING DAILY ATMOSPHERE WE HAVE BROAD AREAS OF ROTATION AND YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL YOU HAVE TO WATCH ALL OF THESE BUT WE ARE HOPING BY THE WAY HOPE IS NOT A SOLUTION TO ANYTHING BUT WE ARE HOPING THAT THE SLIGHTLY MORE STABLE AIR TO THE EAST WILL KEEP THIS FROM RAMPING UP WE HAVE BROAD CIRCULATION AROUND LAKEVIEW AROUND WEST BLOCKTON BUT NEITHER OF THESE ARE TORNADO SIGNATURES THIS IS JEFFERSON AND THIS IS SHELBY AND LET'S SHOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN TERMS OF THE RAIN, JUST POURING THROUGH HERE. AND IF NOTHING ELSE WE MIGHT SEE SOME FLOODING ISSUES THAT'S ONE THING TO CONSIDER IS THAT MOVES ON ANN TAYLOR SHOWING THAT BROAD AREA OF CIRCULATION ON RADAR. IT'S BROAD, THERE ARE TWO OF THEM AND APPROACHING JEFFERSON AND SHELBY COUNTIES WE WILL WATCH THAT AND SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT AND SO FAR SO GOOD WE HAVE HEARD OF NO SPECIFIC DAMAGE FROM BIBB COUNTY WE KNOW AND SAWYERVILLE 2 VEHICLES WERE LOFTED INTO A POND, IT'S NOT A GOOD SITUATION IS EVIDENCE LIVE FEED UP BY ANY CHANCE? WE WERE HAVING SOME SIGNAL ISSUES WITH EVAN. AND THIS VIDEO. WE DO NOT AT THIS POINT SO IF WE GET HIS VIDEO BACK WE WILL TAKE THAT AND WE WANT TO GIVE HIM ON THE PHONE TO SEE WHAT HE HAS SEEN DOWN THERE AND SAWYERVILLE IN THE WESTERN PART OF HALE COUNTY AND GOODNESS GRACIOUS THAT COMMUNITY HAS TAKEN A BEATING WITH SO MANY TORNADOES AND YOU HATE FOR IT TO HAPPEN AGAIN. BROAD ROTATION THIS HAS BECOME THE DOMINANT BROAD CIRCULATION AND THAT BROAD CIRCULATION WILL BE WATCHED WILL BE CROSSING INTO NORTHERN SHELBY SOUTHWESTERN JEFFERSON I WOULD NOT CALL THAT A TORNADO SIGNATURE BUT THIS THING HAS BEEN RAMPING DOWN AND RAMPING UP ALL DAY AND I MIGHT BE IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO RAMP UP ONE MORE TIME AND REMEMBER, DON'T GO OUT AND LOOK FOR THIS BECAUSE ALL YOU WILL SEE IS RAIN. YOU WILL BE SOAKED, YOU WILL LOOK LIKE A WET NOODLE. >> WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO IS GO AHEAD AND ISSUE A WARNING FOR THE METRO JUST BASED ON THE FACT IT HAS DONE SO MUCH DAMAGE AND THOSE ARE THE EMERGENCY ALERTS SO WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THE POLYGON INCLUDING THE BIRMINGHAM METRO AND THE TV STATION IS IN RIVER CHASE AND WE ARE IN HOOVER SO THIS IS YOUR NEW POLYGON WE HAVE A NEW TORNADO WARNING POLYGON IN EFFECT FOR THE BIRMINGHAM METRO. BIBB, JEFFERSON METRO, TUSCALOOSA COUNTY UNTIL 4:15 PMb& INCLUDING GRAYSVILLE, FARS DALE, DOWNTOWN BIRMINGHAM, IT INCLUDES, MOUNT LAUREL, AND CHELSEA, THUS THE FAR EXTENT OF THIS AND AREAS TO THE SOUTHWEST THIS WOULD INCLUDE BESSEMER, HE RETAIL, PLEASANT GROVE AND A TORNADO IS NOT GOING TO AFFECT THIS ENTIRE POLYGON BUT THE POLYGONS ARE FAIRLY LARGE AT THE ONSET AND IF YOU ARE IN ANY OF THESE COMMUNITIES YOU WANT TO BE IN A SAFE PLACE >> AND A REMINDER OF THE SCHOOL BUSES WE HAVE CONFIRMATION FROM THE FOLKS THAT THOSE BUSES WILL BE HELD SO DON'T GET WORRIED IF YOUR CHILD IS NOT HOME FROM SCHOOL. WE HAVE A TORNADO WARNING FOR THE BIRMINGHAM METRO FROM DOWNTOWN SOUTH AND WEST UNTIL 4:15 PM I WISH I COULD SHOW YOU ALL OF THESE BEAUTIFUL IMAGES OF THE STORM FROM THE SKY CAMERA BUT I CAN'T DO THAT, IT IS JUST POURING RAIN. NORMALLY JUST SHOWING RADAR THAT DOESN'T DO A LOT OF GOOD SOMETIMES THAT'S ALL WE CAN DO. I CAN SHOW YOU 10 DIFFERENT SKY CAMERA SHOTS AND HE WILL JUST SEE GRAY FROM THE RAIN TAYLOR HAS THE ROTATION INDICATOR AND YOU CAN SEE IF IT STAYS ON THAT TRACK COMING OUT OF BIBB COUNTY IT COULD CROSS INTERSTATE 459 AGAIN OUT HERE TOWARDS THE MORGAN ROAD EXIT AND COMING UP INTO OX MORE VALLEY AROUND SHANNON AND HOOVER AND SOMEONE IN THE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES WE ARE MOVING NOW FROM A SPARSELY POPULATED PART OF THE STATE INTO THE BIRMINGHAM METRO BUT IT'S CLEARLY STARTING TO RAMP UP AGAIN AND BASED ON THE HISTORY SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT THIS HAS DONE AND HOW IT HAS PERFORMED AT THIS STORM HERE OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS IN TERMS OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND WE WILL PUT SOME OF THE APPROXIMATE ARRIVAL TIMES AND DON'T WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE BUT THAT WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE ETA FOR SOME OF THE COMMUNITY SPRAYED CHEROKEE BEACH, THAT'S IN THE HELENA AREA, 3:33 PM LOVELESS PARK, 3:31 PM THESE ARE OUT HERE IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE BIRMINGHAM METRO. THUS THE SITUATION RIGHT NOW AND DENNIS, IF WE NEED TO PAUSE FOR TWO SECONDS, LET'S DO THAT. DON'T GO AWAY, DON'T CHANGE THAT CHANNEL. >> OKAY WE ARE BACK. THIS IS A POTENTIAL TORNADO COMING UP IN THE BIRMINGHAM METRO AND THIS PICK THE GALLERIA TOWER SKY CAMERA. AND THIS IS WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE IT WILL BE SOAKING RAIN WE WANT TO LOOK BACK TO THE SOUTHWEST FROM THE TOWER AND YOU WON'T SEE ANYTHING DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME TRYING TO LOOK OUTSIDE BECAUSE IT WILL BE POURING RAIN. IF THERE WAS A TORNADO INVOLVED IT IS RAIN WRAPPED LET'S GO UP IN THE SKY YOU CAN SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AND THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE RIGHT THERE JUST BASICALLY NOTHING AND WE WILL GO BACK THE OTHER WAY AND LOOK BACK INTO THIS THING BUT IT IS A SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE RADAR TODAY BECAUSE THE CAMERAS, EVEN IF THE TORNADO IS COMING UP ON THIS YOU CAN'T SEE ANYTHING. YOU SAW THAT EARLIER AS A TORNADO PASSED CLOSE TO HIM COVERED IN RAIN SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE RADAR WE HAVE A POTENTIAL FOR A TORNADO RIGHT HERE SOUTH OF WOODSTOCK AND THAT'S GOING TO BE MOVING UP INTO THE BIRMINGHAM METRO THE GOOD NEWS IS WE DON'T SEE ANY STRONG EVIDENCE OF A LOWER CC. THERE'S SOME CIRCULATION NEAR LAKEVIEW BUT THE MAIN CONCERN IS GOING TO BE RIGHT HERE AND THAT WILL BE CROSSING OUT OF BIBB INTO SOUTHWEST JEFFERSON COUNTY YOU HAVE MACOLA, MACA DOOR HIGH SCHOOL, AND BESSEMER HERE, HE RETAIL, BESSEMER, ALL OF THESE PLACES ARE IN THE POLYGON THE POLYGON RUNS DOWN TO ALABASTER, PELHAM, HOOVER, MOUNTAIN BROOK AND DOWNTOWN BIRMINGHAM THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE INVOLVED AND UNDERSTAND FOR SOME OF THE LARGER BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRIES IT'S NOT EASY WHEN YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH YOUR TORNADO PLAN BUT IF YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON YOU HAVE TO RESPECT THAT WE HOPE THIS TORNADO FADES AWAY AND ULTIMATELY DISSIPATES AND THIS IS NOT THE BEST SIGNATURE THAT WE HAVE SEEN TODAY AND HAS PRODUCED SOME VIOLENT SIGNATURES TODAY WEST OF GREENSBORO WE HAD MULTIPLE INJURIES IT HAS BEEN A ROUGH DAY THIS DOES NOT LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THAT. BUT BASED ON THE HISTORY OF THIS THING THE WEATHER SERVICE BELIEVES THAT THE BEST THING TO DO IS TO WARN THE METRO AND A LOT OF THINGS HAPPEN BUT IT'S A CASE WHERE THEY BELIEVE IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN AND I CERTAINLY STAND BEHIND THEM. WE HAVE A TORNADO WARNING FOR THE BIRMINGHAM METRO INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN PART OF JEFFERSON COUNTY THAT'S INTERSTATE 5920 HIGHWAY 150 THE CROSSINGS RIGHT HERE THE OX MORE VALLEY BLUFF PARK THIS IS HOOVER NORTH OF THE GALLERIA WE HAVE ALABASTER, RIVER CHASE, ALL OF THESE PLACES ARE IN THE POLYGON IT ALMOST CLIPS CHELSEA AND US 280 IS THE FAR EASTERN EXTENT SO FROM HIGHWAY 282 THE SOUTHWEST AND PRETTY MUCH HIGHWAY 78 IF YOU ARE IN THE POLYGON TO THE SOUTH AND WEST AND NORTHEAST OF BIRMINGHAM YOU'RE NOT IN THE POLYGON AND THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD LOOK AT THAT POLYGON AND WHAT WE ASK YOU TO DO IF YOU ARE NEW HERE A LOT OF PEOPLE MOVE HERE AND THIS IS FOREIGN TO THEM AND YOU WANT TO BE IN A SMALL ROOM THE HALL CLOSET BATHROOM IN THE CENTER OF THE HOUSE AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OF COURSE THE LOWEST FLOOR YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ON THE GROUND AND ÃUNDERGROUND. AND IF YOU CAN PUT ON A HELMET. A BICYCLE HELMET, A BATTING HELMET, AS SOON AS THE DANGER IS OVER WE WILL LET YOU KNOW. WE DON'T WANT ANYONE IN A CAR THAT'S THE WORST POSSIBLE PLACE YOU CAN BE WE DON'T WANT ANYBODY IN A MOBILE HOME. YOU CANNOT STAY THERE DURING A TORNADO. HAVE A PLAN SO WHEN IT HAPPENS YOU JUST REACTING YOU GO TO A SAFE PLACE SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIS. THIS IS NOT A TORNADO SIGNATURE WE ARE JUST WATCHING BROAD CIRCULATION AND IN BIBB COUNTY THIS IS NOT THE BEST SIGNATURE WE HAVE SEEN ALL DAY BUT IT HAS BEEN COMING AND GOING AND THE WEATHER SERVICE BELIEVES THE RIGHT THING TO DO FOR THE METRO TO BE WARNED SO I KNOW IT IS VERY INCONVENIENT BECAUSE THE OTHER PROBLEM WE HAVE IS THAT SCHOOLS ARE LEADING OUT. SCHOOLS DISMISS A LOT OF SYSTEMS ARE HOLDING THE BUSES AND THAT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO BE IN A CAR OR A SCHOOL BUS AND THERE'S A TORNADO WARNING SO EVERYONETAKE A DEEP BREATH AND PLEASE BE PATIENT DON'T GET MAD AT THE SCHOOL OFFICIALS THEY ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING AND THEY ARE GOING TO GET THE SAME TROLLS AND HATERS THAT WE GET BUT THEY ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING WE HAVE BROAD CIRCULATION HERE OVER NORTHERN BIBB COUNTY AND THIS IS WHERE TUSCALOOSA, BIBB AND JEFFERSON COME TOGETHER AND WE ARE NOT SEEING ANY STRONG EVIDENCE OF A TORNADO AT THIS POINT WE ARE JUST NOT SEEING IT. LET'S LOOK AT THE COALITION COEFFICIENT AND SEE THIS AVENUE THIS JUST A LOT OF NOISE SO WE ARE NOT SEEING ANY STRONG EVIDENCE OF DEBRIS THE VELOCITY IS NOT LOOKING TORNADO ATTIC AT ÃIS NOT LOOKING LIKE A TORNADO. THERE IS A SCALE HERE BUT THAT IS NOT THE KIND OF SIGNATURE THAT WE WOULD TYPICALLY SEE IN A SITUATION LIKE THAT BUT THIS HAS BEEN A STORM THAT RAMPS UP AND RAMPS DOWN BASED ON THE HISTORY THE WEATHER SERVICE THANKS RIGHT THING TO DO IS TO MAINTAIN THAT FOR THE METRO. IT'S THE WORST CONCEIVABLE TIME OF DAY. IT'S A WEEKDAY IS 3:23 PM BUT JUST BEAR WITH US AND WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS AND IT SHOULD BE OVER BY THIS EVENING. THIS IS COMING FROM WOODSTOCK IN NORTHERN, CAN YOU GET A SHOT OF THE SKY? IT WOULD BE BETTER IF WE COULD GET A TILT UP BUT IT'S POURING RAIN HERE AND AGAIN A BROAD ROTATION AT THAT SITE WHERE THE CAMERA IS LOCATED THIS IS OFF OF ONE OF THE NEWS VEHICLES BUT YOU JUST CAN'T SEE MUCH TODAY BECAUSE IF YOU WERE TO LOOK UP IN THE SKY YOU WOULD SEE A BIG GRAY MASS BUT THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE JUST JOINED US, YOU ARE EMERGENCY ALERTS WENT OFF ON YOUR PHONE AND WE HAVE HAD SIGNIFICANT TORNADO DAMAGE TODAY WITH INJURIES AND ENTRAPMENT AND SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE IN THE SAME STORM IS COMING UP INTO BIRMINGHAM BUT THE CIRCULATION IS MUCH WEAKER AT THIS POINT WHICH IS GREAT NEWS AND THE WEATHER SERVICE WE WILL WATCH THIS TO SEE IF IT RAMPS UP AND IF IT DOESN'T MAYBE THE WARNING WILL BE CANCELED BUT THEY THOUGHT THE RIGHT THING TO DO WAS TO WARN FOR THE METRO. THE TORNADO WARNING POLYGON IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE AREA WE DON'T WARNED BY COUNTY SUITE WARMED BY GEOMETRIC SHAPES THAT DEFINE THE TORNADO DANGER WARNING AN ENTIRE COUNTY DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. TORNADOES ARE SMALL AND COUNTIES ARE LARGE AND YOU CAN SEE HIGHWAY 280 IS THE EASTERN EXTENT OF THE POLYGON. >> WE JUST GOT A CANCELLATION OF THE TORNADO WARNING >> THERE IS NOTHING THERE. SO THAT'S GREAT NEWS. THANK YOU. THE WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELED THIS TORNADO WARNING SO IT IS NO MORE WE CAN WIPE THAT OFF THE BOARD AND WE HAVE NO WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR ANY PART OF ALABAMA SO THIS IS THE BIG PICTURE AND YOU CAN SEE IT'S RAINING, WE HAVE THUNDER AND LIGHTNING BUT WE DON'T HAVE A SINGLE WARNING AND THAT IS GOOD NEWS SO IF YOU ARE IN THE BIRMINGHAM METRO, THE WARNING FOR THE METRO HAS BEEN CANCELED AS OF A COUPLE OF MINUTES AGO. NO ACTIVE TORNADO WARNINGS. THAT'S GREAT NEWS WHICH MEANS YOU CAN GO BACK ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS. YOU CAN DRIVE IF YOU NEED TO DRIVE AND NO WARNINGS AT ALL. WE DO HAVE A WATCH, LET'S GO BACK TO THE TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM IN THE WEATHER SERVICE WILL CLEAR SOME OF THESE COUNTIES. A LOT OF THE COUNTIES WILL BE TAKEN OUT BUT FOR NOW WE HAVE RANDOLPH, CLAY, SINCLAIR, PICKENS, DOWN TO MOBILE AND BALDWIN UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING BUT SOUTHWEST OF BIRMINGHAM THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE CLEARED AND WE HAVE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NINE TOMORROW THAT'S FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE AND AGAIN, WE MIGHT SEE AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE BIG PICTURE RADAR WE HAVE RAIN AND THUNDER AND LIGHTNING BUT WE DO NOT HAVE ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AT THIS POINT AND NO ACTIVE WARNINGS IN EFFECT HERE IS THE BIG PICTURE AND THE SNOW AND ICE MEMPHIS IS UNDER AN ICE STORM WARNING IT HAS BEEN AN IC MASS AND WE WILL BE MUCH COLDER TOMORROW THERE MIGHT BE A TOUCH OF FREEZING RAIN OR FREEZING DRIZZLE BUT NOT A HIGH IMPACT EVENT ANALYST LOOK AT THE TEMPERATURES. FIRST OF ALL THERE COULD BE SOME ICING ON BRIDGES TOMORROW MORNING. WE DON'T THINK THIS WILL BE A HIGH IMPACT EVENT BUT BE AWARE FREEZING RAIN TEMPERATURES BELOW 32 THE BRIDGES COULD BE ICY BUT LET'S LOOK AT TEMPERATURES AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. YOU CAN PICK OUT THE FRONT. BIRMINGHAM, 66, HALEYVILLE, 41. THE COLD FRONT MAKING THAT PUSH TUSCALOOSA 69 HALEYVILLE 41 IN THE FRONT HAS BEEN STALLED OUT DURING THE ALABAMA TENNESSEE STATELINE BUT NEEDLESS TO SAY IF YOU ARE UP AND HEAR YOUR SEVERE WEATHER WORRIES ARE DONE THEY MIGHT BE SOME IC BRIDGES TOMORROW MORNING BUT EVERYBODY ELSE LOOK AT THE 70S DOWN HERE. ADD YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS, HUNTSVILLE DOWN TO 50 MEMPHIS WITH ICE AND I HAVE 30 AND THAT WILL KEEP ON MOVING SOUTH AND IT WILL BE MUCH COLDER TOMORROW SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE RADAR AND WE STRESS RIGHT NOW THERE ARE NO WARNINGS ANYWHERE IN THE STATE I KNOW YOUR PHONE WENT OFF AND THAT WAS A SHORT-LIVED WARNING. THE CIRCULATION HAS GONE AWAY WE HAVE NO EVIDENCE OF A TORNADO OR LARGE HAIL. NO WARNINGS IN EFFECT NO FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS, BUT THE RAIN IS HEAVY AND THERE COULD BE SOME MINOR FLOODING ISSUES AND BACK UP THROUGH HERE HALEYVILLE, HAMILTON, IT'S TURNING COLD IT WILL BE COLDER THAN A WELL DIGGER'S BACKSIDE HE MIGHT STAY IN THE 30S AND WATCH OUT FOR SOME BRIDGE ICING AND SCATTERED SPOTS NORTH OF HIGHWAY 278 AND SO WE WILL STILL, UNDERSTAND THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 6 PM BUT AT THE MOMENT WE HAVE NOTHING GOING ON SO AT 3:30 PM UNLESS SOMEONE TELLS ME DIFFERENTLY WE WILL GO BACK TO REGULAR PROGRAMMING AND THEN WE WILL REJOIN EVERYBODY HERE AT 4 PM WE HAVE NO WARNINGS IN EFFECT, AND IF WE HAVE ADDITIONAL WARNINGS WE WILL COME BACK ON THE AIR BUT THINGS ARE LOOKING GOOD NO TORNADO SIGNATURE NO LARGE HAIL, EVERYTHING IS, BUT THERE HAS BEEN MAJOR DAMAGE NORTH OF GREENVILLE WE WILL HAVE DETAILED INFORMATION ON WHAT IS HAPPENING, THE NUMBER OF INJURIES AND JOIN US AT FOUR P.M. AND IF ANYTHING HAPPENS WE WILL SIT HERE, THERE'S NO SEVERE WEATHER WE DON'T LIKE TO COVER PROGRAMMING JUST TO COVER PROGRAMMING SELF WE HAVE NOTHING GOING ON WE WILL GO BACK TO REGULAR PROGRAMMING A LOT OF YOU ARE WATCHING BUT WE WILL BE BACK AT
