April 27, 2011 Tornadoes in Alabama: WVTM 13 Chief Meteorologist Jerry Tracey Share Updated: 10:31 AM CDT Apr 26, 2021 WVTM 13 Digital Share Updated: 10:31 AM CDT Apr 26, 2021
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Show Transcript I remember about a week ahead of time. All of us were getting together talking about it because it looked bad on everything. We were looking at all the computer models and everything. And then from that day, let s say that was seven days out every succeeding day, some other piece of evidence came in that made it look all the more sure that it was going to happen and be bad. And this kept going right up to the day of the event. Then we had the morning storms and then they set up a special sounding from the National Weather service in cholera and it showed spin values or Hollis city is the term we use being through the roof. And at that point is when I told our news director at the time, I said, this looks to be historic. I mean thi