On May 24, 2001, Tuscaloosa County became the first community in Alabama to be recognized by the National Weather Service as StormReady. The images below are photographs from the recognition ceremony held in the parking lot of Shelton State Community College, just outside the path of the devastating tornado of December 16, 2000.
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Brian Peters,
Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service,
Birmingham, and Ron Hampel, Emergency Management Director for Tuscaloosa
County, unveil the StormReady street sign proclaiming Tuscaloosa
County StormReady.
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Posing for
a photograph with the StormReady sign are (l to r) Probate Judge
Hardy McCollum, Tuscaloosa Mayor Al Dupont, volunteer storm spotter
Chuck Beams, volunteer storm spotter Chris Sentell, EMA Director Ron
Hampel, and Brian Peters. Kneeling in front is volunteer storm spotter
Cal Davis.
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Cameramen
from ABC 33/40 and Fox 6 prepare to interview NWS Warning Coordination
Meteorologist Brian Peters about the StormReady program while Michelle
Miller, WTID radio, waits on the right to ask questions.
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