Comments on: Centreville Radar http://brenttornado.wordpress.com a time to remember Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:22:23 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Suzanne Fortin http://brenttornado.wordpress.com/brent-tornado-on-centreville-radar/#comment-52 Suzanne Fortin Thu, 21 May 2009 22:49:45 +0000 http://brenttornado.wordpress.com/?page_id=7#comment-52 I'm doing some research with a group on climate anomalies across the central part of the U.S. and 5/27/1973 was highlighted as an anomalous weather day. Thank you for preserving the photos of the Brent Tornado event, obviously the reason that 5/27/73 made the top-10. Regards, Suzanne Fortin NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill I’m doing some research with a group on climate anomalies across the central part of the U.S. and 5/27/1973 was highlighted as an anomalous weather day. Thank you for preserving the photos of the Brent Tornado event, obviously the reason that 5/27/73 made the top-10.

Regards,

Suzanne Fortin
NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill

]]> By: Randy Willis http://brenttornado.wordpress.com/brent-tornado-on-centreville-radar/#comment-40 Randy Willis Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:47:21 +0000 http://brenttornado.wordpress.com/?page_id=7#comment-40 I remember at 17 year old riding through Brent the day after this tornado. Remember seeing police cars upside down and buildings leveled. Will never forget seeing a bath tub stuck in a stripped tree trunk. Living in Alabaster at the time my parents found a small Bible New Testament cover with the faded hand written ink "Brent"... wish we still had it. At that time neighbors reported leaves falling from the clouds. Thanks for this site / Randy I remember at 17 year old riding through Brent the day after this tornado. Remember seeing police cars upside down and buildings leveled. Will never forget seeing a bath tub stuck in a stripped tree trunk. Living in Alabaster at the time my parents found a small Bible New Testament cover with the faded hand written ink “Brent”… wish we still had it. At that time neighbors reported leaves falling from the clouds.
Thanks for this site / Randy

]]> By: Elephant on the Roof…or Storm in My Hair, Part Two, By Beverly Hicks Burch « A Steel Magnolia is an Iron Butterfly http://brenttornado.wordpress.com/brent-tornado-on-centreville-radar/#comment-9 Elephant on the Roof…or Storm in My Hair, Part Two, By Beverly Hicks Burch « A Steel Magnolia is an Iron Butterfly Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:38:25 +0000 http://brenttornado.wordpress.com/?page_id=7#comment-9 [...] One church was demolished. My most favorite weatherman in the whole world, James Spann has a great link on his blog of the radar of the Brent tornado. The hook signature of a tornado is there as big as [...] [...] One church was demolished. My most favorite weatherman in the whole world, James Spann has a great link on his blog of the radar of the Brent tornado. The hook signature of a tornado is there as big as [...]

]]> By: ABC 33/40 Weather Blog » Spann’s Best Way To The Bama Beaches - 2008 http://brenttornado.wordpress.com/brent-tornado-on-centreville-radar/#comment-2 ABC 33/40 Weather Blog » Spann’s Best Way To The Bama Beaches - 2008 Fri, 23 May 2008 18:53:49 +0000 http://brenttornado.wordpress.com/?page_id=7#comment-2 [...] OLD CENTREVILLE RADAR SITE: Soon, look on the left and you will pass an historic Alabama weather location; the site of the old WSR-57 Centreville radar that scanned the Alabama sky for years before the NEXRAD system was installed at the Shelby County Airport. This installation was destroyed by the same tornado that ripped through downtown Brent May 27, 1973. [...] [...] OLD CENTREVILLE RADAR SITE: Soon, look on the left and you will pass an historic Alabama weather location; the site of the old WSR-57 Centreville radar that scanned the Alabama sky for years before the NEXRAD system was installed at the Shelby County Airport. This installation was destroyed by the same tornado that ripped through downtown Brent May 27, 1973. [...]

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