Wow I didn't know that was his first day on the job. If there's a video of him on his first day I'd love to see it. I have seen two other stations on that dreadful day. My heart broke and broke and broke again. 💔🇺🇲 I boo-hooed 😥😓🇺🇲
It's funny how years later, TH-cam Sleuths are still trying to argue with a professional meteorologist about his career. This is one of those rare cases where he was able to keep people safe despite all his services being knocked out. He saved many lives in the process. Massive respect Matt!!
Totally. Any time there is severe weather and he comes on the air we find a way to watch. We all knew how good of a weatherman he was prior to this so this event just confirmed what we already knew. Really hope he sticks around indefinitely and a larger city doesn’t lure him away.
You made global TV history with this. Greetings from Germany by the way. You demonstrated to the world how to react responsible yet clear headed in face of a deadly danger towards your crew. And still you thought about the people out there in danger watching on TV. I call this perfect RISK MANAGEMENT. One most amazing piece of live history. You should give seminars. Really.
@William W. Campbell-Shepherd IX hi, I’m also from Germany, so I would like to answer your question. As far as I remember I have never seen reports like this here for thunderstorms. Usually we only have a few minutes of weather forecast after the news. They will say something like “(insert area name here) there will be a high risk for strong thunderstorms”, with maybe a “stay inside”. I mean, we don’t have extrem thunderstorms very often, at least not in my area (near Berlin). I do remember a small tornado a few years ago in a town in the north of Germany. I do not live very close to it (different Bundesland/State) so I never heard specific warnings, only the day after, that it happened. A few houses lost a bit of their roofs, if I remember correctly, so nothing as intense as you have. We do have strong storms, but even then on TV you usually don’t see something this intense (which is understandable)
@@khfan6864 i live in Tupelo so I was following this closely when it happened. The weatherman, Matt, is actually a friend of my older brother. We absolutely love Matt and we all appreciate how lucky we are to have him as our weatherman. Any time there is severe weather and his broadcast breaks into live TV we always watch. This day in particular I was following closely because I was planning on taking the kid and our cats to a friends house that has a storm shelter as we did not. Because of Matt’s thorough coverage we were able to evacuate to our friends shelter almost an hour prior to the tornado hitting our town. It actually hit the neighborhood I was sheltering in but we were ok. Ironically enough my wife is German, she moved here as a teenager and has been here about 20 years now. We visit Germany pretty often because her family still lives there. In 2015 we were there in Kirchiembolanden, where her grandmother lives near Kaiserslautern, and a tornado hit about an hour from us. It obviously wasn’t anything like the one that hit us in Tupelo a year prior but it was still interesting.
This guy is one of the best "teaching" weathermen I've ever seen. Outstanding job in explaining exactly what is going on and what may happen. His instincts were right on the money.
I'm a huge weather geek, so even though I'm in Wisconsin, I was watching this live from my work computer when it happened. Matt impressed me immediately. His focus and control of the situation was like few I've ever seen - He did such an excellent job of explaining things in an extremely tense situation (A great example is when he showed the tower cam and pointed out parts of the storm structure, such as where the tornado would be.) Tupelo, you're lucky to have such a talented guy looking out for you. He's one of the best!
Jeez he kind of had to go old school there. Has a hand full of reports, a map, and a head full knowledge to use in making his predictions while airing on the side of caution in stating that the tornado that was seen is still on the ground even if it wasn't. Bravo. Weathermen in Tornado Alley are quite fantastic from what I've seen. :)
I've been a storm chaser for 20 years and folks dont understand how hard this job is. So much is happening and the excitement is nonstop. I've seen an EF4 and EF5 up close and personal and no matter how many tornadoes I've seen and chased, I always get excited and nervous..you did amazing and stayed calm. Great job my friend
This is a good job done in really difficult circumstances. Small market equipment, large and sparsely populated area to cover, bad radar coverage, not a lot of chasers in the field (and poor visibility anyway), many storms in progress. In OKC the stations have helicopters flying around to spot tornadoes..yeah it might be the same game but it's not the same playing field.
Matt, I'm glad everything turned out okay at your studio that day! That looked like one helluva close call, and you handled it quickly and professionally. You obviously had the safety and welfare of your staff at top priority, and were able to make calm, rational judgements in a chaotic situation. I've been in TV MCR operations in Michigan for 30 years. Although we don't see this stuff with nearly the frequency that you do, I will never forget the morning of May 31, 1998, when we had a massive tornadic line move across the lake from Wisconsin and hit us at 4 am. I remember our chief showing me the radar at 1 am, telling me to fire up the generator and get ready for a wild ride (fortunately there was time to prepare). When it hit, the tornado warnings popped like a row of firecrackers. It was a skeleton crew....me, the chief and one director also handling TD and audio with stationary cameras in-studio. The weather wire was in MCR, so when NWS popped a new warning (which seemed like ever two minutes or so), I'd relay it to the director on intercom, who then relayed to the chief on his IFB. Then I'd run the copy down the hall to studio and hand it to him off-camera. Sure enough, we lost utility power at the transmitter and had to trunk over to generator. No generator at the studio site, but thankfully, we never lost power there. No evacuation was needed, but still, it was the most eventful (and scary) night I've ever spent in this business!
Dan Drolett I remember May 31st, 1998 as well we had a Tornado that tracked 62 miles from Tioga,Broome, and Delaware counties in upstate NY. Unbelievable
Dan Drolett 😢 I'm in a sad mood right now. You're story is about to make me cry. Also I'll tell you guys a story. (not in a studio) So I was in my van with my mom. We lived in Missouri at the time, memory starts here. It's getting blurry already, glad it is. We were stuck at a red stoplight, it was moving back and forth violently, surprised it didn't snap off since it was on a wire. I kept screaming go go! Funnel cloud roaring above us, a pole flew by the car, as well as a tree. My mom kept saying I can't Zach! I was screaming and crying. The tornado touched down across the Missouri lake? Or St.Louid river? I can't remember what body of water it touched down by. Anyways that's all I remember. I can't remember the rest of the trip home. But, I do remember coming down the stairs, into the basement , to see my dad and 2 sisters coming back up. The tornado had passed then. That's my story.
I was in that stupid tornado. My house was 1206 Bienville Street. In Tupelo, ms. I remember we got out of Tupelo high early, and went home. A friend called us and we turned on the news right as he was yelling BASEMENT NOW!! I grabbed my dog and ran into the bathroom closet. If some don’t believe me, our tree in the front yard fell on the house. If you go there now, it’s a empty space, unless they put a new house by now.
Matt Lapong's name is right at the bottom left corner of the video. It's Matt Laubhan. Young or not he did a fantastic job of covering this and giving the right information to the viewers in his area. If he could clone himself I'd want him in the most southern part of Indiana covering the weather for us. I'd feel safer.
I can't believe people are bitching about this guy. Not only does he give me the impression that he's a top shelf meteorologist but he's educational while he does his thing. 👏
+PhabTribute Matt is a fantastic weather broadcaster and a person with a great heart, is a family man, and does his job to the letter. The people of Tupelo are very lucky to have him and the people that live there will assure you of that
People like Mike Morgan and David Payne aren't bad meteorologists, they have just gotten blinded over the years with all the corporate greed on getting ratings. It wasn't always like that, but now days the more you sound all crazy on the TV about a terrible situation underway the more people will react to it. Whether it be positive or negative it draws attention and that's what those networks want now in order to compete with each other. I prefer a broadcaster who knows how to balance all of that but also know the most important job over everything else is to let people know what is going on without all the drama with it.
You can tell as time went on (especially when it was confirmed on the ground and matt saw it on towercam) Matt got more and more nervous/scared... Especially when he realized it was multivortex
What a crazy day. I was wedged into a small storm shelter with two scared and crying kids and 5 cats. The tornado hit the neighborhood I was in and my wife was texting me because she watched the broadcast from work and knew I was in the Joyner neighborhood. It hit the other side from us so until I got activated to guard the damage later I didn’t see how close it came to me. Props to Matt for being such a great weatherman.
A few things from a tornado alley resident: 1) I have watched the entire playlist a few times. The use of the cellular network (first having someone from NWS MEG on the phone to relay information, then to put the radar on the air as a backup was a very wise move (when it worked - obviously you can’t help network overcrowding), though I probably wouldn’t have left the twitter notifications on because at one point in a later part, you did have someone using a racial epithet on there. Instead, have somebody else monitoring the socials. 2) For those wondering, as was noted a KVM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse switcher) just allows somebody to switch video sources with just either a click or keystroke. When the power flickered off, that probably took a surge. If that’s not working, that’s bad during weather coverage. The engineers were probably running around like mad. This probably also contributed to the video equipment issue which is why we got less than broadcast quality footage here. Neither are Matt’s fault, and considering these, he did the best he could with what he had. 3) Let’s not forget, these meteorologists are HUMAN. They make mistakes, they get emotional - and most importantly, they often have family in the path or are themselves (both of which occurred here!). John Dolusic actually lives (or did at the time) in the Joyner neighborhood if I recall which took a direct hit. And Matt mentioned on air that his wife (also on the staff at the station) was concerned about their family - a perfectly reasonable concern!
Matt, I live in Newfoundland, and cannot even imagine how terrifying a tornado must be to live through, let alone report as it hits you… you are a god in a man’s form, a hero of meteorology. This video should be shown in schools, to show everyone: THIS is what reporting should be. Calm, cool, collected, and on-point, even in such dangerous moments as this.
Almost the same thing happened to Matt and the crew on Monday Night. Lost all lower to the studio after the transformer blew then a tornado developed just to their east. All they had was broadcasting non Facebook live and using their radar scope apps on their phones and tablets
Some sirens went off but there were many that didn’t. Where I live there are tornado sirens that are across the street from our neighborhood and they never went off when this was going on. It was very weird
Sometimes sirens fail... That's why EVERYONE should not rely on sirens (that plus the fact alot of the time you won't hear them indoors in a major thunderstorm especially if you have the tv on or something) and have multiple way of getting warnings.
I just like this video even though I am from Montgomery, AL and not Tupelo, MS. We had this severe weather on the same day as Tupelo. 2014 was pretty bad with storms
I watched this thing the day it happened. My little sister was went to the Joyner School. I was on Bienville street which was near Gloster and Lumpkin streets. It knocked a oak tree on our house and blocked the way out and we had to break a window to leave. Our house was destroyed afterwards by a bulldozer as it was no longer safe to go into. The shed and the four trees we had planted in the back were fine. But we had to move shortly after that.
I think he did a pretty good job with what he had. When an EF2 tornado hit Monroe, LA (my hometown) in 2014, ALL major TV networks and all but two radio stations went off the air and were off the air for hours.
To be fair, this guy is pretty young, and being a TV meteorologist especially during a severe weather outbreak is an extremely stressful job. So yes, while I agree that Matt Lapong (or whatever his name is) could've done a better job, he did do a very good job getting the crew to shelter toward the end of the video.
Matt Laubhan I had your moment when Jonesboro Arkansas was hit by a tornado when Kait8 our local weather showed it on TV I breathe really hard watching it. Watching it living in Brookland Arkansas a couple of miles away
this guy is a great meteorologist,but he does look like a 17 year old.....everything he said was right...can't blame a little excitability there,i mean the tornado did pass very close to the station....
Meteorology is the career I'm looking forward to join, I want to keep people of my city safe during severe weather no matter what, As a kid I was obsessed with weather radars and other weather equipment, In high school, I was lucky to visit my local news station in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, I met Meteorologist Ashley Baylor and watched live from inside the studio in real time, An experience I'll remember for as long as I live, I hope I can make it.
This guy is too cute! I'm sorry that does sound condescending, I'm sorry. I've been a spotter for 16 years almost, not once have I ever made a report and I'm sure the first time I do I'll be all shaking and everything. Was this his first time covering such and event? "Basement, NOW!" We have very dramatic meteorologists on our TV stations too, and they're quite seasoned actually. He was doing his best I'm sure. I'll bet it was pretty scary, but I can't help but giggle just a bit. Oh and he did a great job explaining what we were looking at especially on the live cameras. Many people really appreciate that because radar is just colors to them.
Strandysmommy his first major event was the april 2011 super tuesday outbreak. Was actually only on the job for a day or two before that outbreak occurred. He handled it pretty well. Alot of local people here around tupelo love him.
I think he was just trying to convey the seriousness to them. It was made to sound like, "You need to go now, no questions needed, just do it." It sounded more like a parent to me.
He wasn’t being dramatic, a tornado was coming straight for his studio, which was in southern Saltillo. He had every reason to get everyone into the basement
I was in Tueplo visiting the Elvis museum one month before this twister hit. I was at the Mall there too. I could have been killed in this storm! There was an ICE storm that day I was there. Amazing what mother nature can do.
I been a strom chaser for seven years i becsme a storm chaser when i retired from the fire servive from a back injury i got in the line of duty sbd now i have arthritis in my back and neck and severe nerve pain im going to miss storm chasing when i have to retire
Matt, this is why the construction of all wood-frame homes in Tornado Alley in the U.S. should be permanently ended, and all homes to be built out of steel and stone frames. I think those would hold up a lot better than wood does. o.o By the way, for the record, I'm in the Canadian province of Ontario...Southern Ontario to be exact, near Toronto, Canada's Largest City. =P
Ragin' Ronic you have to remember that Mississippi is number 49 or 50 in many categories, including household income. If all new construction were reinforced concrete, the structures would be so expensive that no one could afford them (myself included). It would be great to require a storm shelter in each house, but again, even that would increase the price $7-10k per house. That might not sound like much, but it would be close to 1/3 of the annual household income for many families.
Matt Laubhan Same situation I hear in Alabama. James Spann and others set up a fund there to buy NOAA Alert radios for low-income residents. $40 for a radio might not seem like a lot to spend, but when you're living below the poverty line, that's a wad of cash!
reverse thrust I won’t speak for Matt, however in general media in small markets (based on population in their market) are paid less than bigger markets. In general Tupelo would probably be paid less than Mobile which would be less than Atlanta
Great job of protecting your community and surrounding communities, just wondering why maybe there was never any correlation coefficient being looked at on any of these warnings. It sure would have helped to verify certain entities that a weather chaser couldn't. Great job though Matt.
Fisher Mcknight thanks! At the time, WSI (our Radar vendor) didn’t offer correlation coefficient. We had access to it on a computer with GR2AE, but we were having some data issues if I remember right. You’re right though, it was very evident on CC once it touched down. It’s amazing how much more a part of coverage CC has become in the last few years.
Matt Laubhan yeah, I don't guess I was thinking about that sorry. Keep doing a great job. You're needed by many folks. Praying for your ability to help folks in the future.
I was seven years old that day I was at pontotoc elementary in second grade the sky turned black and I knew it was bad then my mom who was a sub at that school came and got me and we went into the library closet and waited it out we all prayed we where lucky it didn’t form on us we would’ve probably got hurt
Is that what happened after the power glitch? The videos I see show The freeze part cuz I assume power glitch and then next thing you're yelling people to go to safety. Nice. Way to keep control
This is hard to explain. As on tv it shows the cut out part due to the station getting knocked off air. This was recorded with equipment, that’s why there isn’t any graphics and such.
Really random thought that just came to me: What are other countries saying about the US ya know about the riots and all that? If your from another county what you guys saying about us haha
a safe place ? is not allways the safeist you can get trapped in youre basement in youre car you can have youre windows shatterd you can go airborne under a bridge never a trailer is easaly demolished what ya gunna do
david marshall, that’s true, but that is why you plan ahead when the outlook comes out the day before or the watch is issued: plan to locate and get to the safest place possible. If you take a direct hit from a tornado, it’s going to be very unpleasant at best, and deadly at worst. Trapped in a basement is unpleasant, but much better than carried away and smashed by/into a tree.
there has been no warning tornados invisable tornados night time ones hidden by rain etc youre words are so true people when sirens go off have a plan to get somewhere safe its no fun being vulnerable to uncontrolled forces damn nature youre scary
@@davidmarshall385 yes there's been tornadoes with no warnings,but days they happen theres been a risk area put out by the nws SPC by at LEAST the day before or day of. So when that's put out and there's even a marginal or slight risk area for your area that's when you plan. If it makes you feel better when there's a risk area for where you are you can just go to your safe place whenever there's any storm that goes over your house.
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We are blessed to have Matt. His first day on this job was April 27th 2011. He did an amazing job then. Continues to do so!
What a hell of a first day on the job!!
@@BRUtahn That's what you call breaking in the rookie...lol...but man that was a bad day.
Wow I didn't know that was his first day on the job. If there's a video of him on his first day I'd love to see it. I have seen two other stations on that dreadful day.
My heart broke and broke and broke again. 💔🇺🇲
I boo-hooed 😥😓🇺🇲
@@monicacrow1460 There is video and I had no idea that was his first day.. He did a phenomenal job
Talk about your trial by fire moment there, right, Becky?
It's funny how years later, TH-cam Sleuths are still trying to argue with a professional meteorologist about his career. This is one of those rare cases where he was able to keep people safe despite all his services being knocked out. He saved many lives in the process. Massive respect Matt!!
Totally. Any time there is severe weather and he comes on the air we find a way to watch. We all knew how good of a weatherman he was prior to this so this event just confirmed what we already knew. Really hope he sticks around indefinitely and a larger city doesn’t lure him away.
Hopefully he saved lives (and most likely did) tonight.........major weather emergency in Tupelo tonight.
@@friesareyummyabsolutely. Your part of town ok? I’m by Crosstown and we saw trees down and smelled gas 😬
@@rizzorizzo2311 I live in NC, but have friends IN Tupelo. I pray that they are safe.
@@friesareyummy ❤❤
This is my hometown weather man.... We absolutely love him here!!!! He's compassionate and loves to save lives!!!
You made global TV history with this. Greetings from Germany by the way. You demonstrated to the world how to react responsible yet clear headed in face of a deadly danger towards your crew. And still you thought about the people out there in danger watching on TV. I call this perfect RISK MANAGEMENT. One most amazing piece of live history. You should give seminars. Really.
@William W. Campbell-Shepherd IX hi, I’m also from Germany, so I would like to answer your question.
As far as I remember I have never seen reports like this here for thunderstorms. Usually we only have a few minutes of weather forecast after the news. They will say something like “(insert area name here) there will be a high risk for strong thunderstorms”, with maybe a “stay inside”. I mean, we don’t have extrem thunderstorms very often, at least not in my area (near Berlin). I do remember a small tornado a few years ago in a town in the north of Germany. I do not live very close to it (different Bundesland/State) so I never heard specific warnings, only the day after, that it happened. A few houses lost a bit of their roofs, if I remember correctly, so nothing as intense as you have. We do have strong storms, but even then on TV you usually don’t see something this intense (which is understandable)
@@khfan6864 i live in Tupelo so I was following this closely when it happened. The weatherman, Matt, is actually a friend of my older brother. We absolutely love Matt and we all appreciate how lucky we are to have him as our weatherman. Any time there is severe weather and his broadcast breaks into live TV we always watch. This day in particular I was following closely because I was planning on taking the kid and our cats to a friends house that has a storm shelter as we did not. Because of Matt’s thorough coverage we were able to evacuate to our friends shelter almost an hour prior to the tornado hitting our town. It actually hit the neighborhood I was sheltering in but we were ok. Ironically enough my wife is German, she moved here as a teenager and has been here about 20 years now. We visit Germany pretty often because her family still lives there. In 2015 we were there in Kirchiembolanden, where her grandmother lives near Kaiserslautern, and a tornado hit about an hour from us. It obviously wasn’t anything like the one that hit us in Tupelo a year prior but it was still interesting.
@@rizzorizzo2311 , cool story, man.
This guy is one of the best "teaching" weathermen I've ever seen. Outstanding job in explaining exactly what is going on and what may happen. His instincts were right on the money.
he is: a meteorologist,
a great weather man,
a hero
funny
and he has some great sutuation awareness
A young James Spann in the making. Matt is a great Metrologist and did a great job reporting this with limited services.
I'm a huge weather geek, so even though I'm in Wisconsin, I was watching this live from my work computer when it happened. Matt impressed me immediately. His focus and control of the situation was like few I've ever seen - He did such an excellent job of explaining things in an extremely tense situation (A great example is when he showed the tower cam and pointed out parts of the storm structure, such as where the tornado would be.) Tupelo, you're lucky to have such a talented guy looking out for you. He's one of the best!
He's still absolutely crushing it
Excellent job, Matt. I have no doubt you saved lives that day.
Jeez he kind of had to go old school there. Has a hand full of reports, a map, and a head full knowledge to use in making his predictions while airing on the side of caution in stating that the tornado that was seen is still on the ground even if it wasn't. Bravo. Weathermen in Tornado Alley are quite fantastic from what I've seen. :)
Mississippi is not in tornado alley Mississippi and the southern states are in Dixie Alley
@@perrychambers5053 , actually, Western Tennessee is kind of in between Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley, and ditto for Mississippi and Western Kentucky.
I've been a storm chaser for 20 years and folks dont understand how hard this job is. So much is happening and the excitement is nonstop. I've seen an EF4 and EF5 up close and personal and no matter how many tornadoes I've seen and chased, I always get excited and nervous..you did amazing and stayed calm.
Great job my friend
I can’t imagine what it feels like to be there.
I want to be a storm chaser too, It's a potentially dangerous job but It exists to keep communities and towns safe
Matt you earned a whole states respect that day and I couldn’t imagine storms without you
This is a good job done in really difficult circumstances. Small market equipment, large and sparsely populated area to cover, bad radar coverage, not a lot of chasers in the field (and poor visibility anyway), many storms in progress.
In OKC the stations have helicopters flying around to spot tornadoes..yeah it might be the same game but it's not the same playing field.
Wow! What coverage! It makes history that weather service crew coverage that goes global. Laubhaun should be in the meteorology's hall of fame.
Matt, I'm glad everything turned out okay at your studio that day! That looked like one helluva close call, and you handled it quickly and professionally. You obviously had the safety and welfare of your staff at top priority, and were able to make calm, rational judgements in a chaotic situation.
I've been in TV MCR operations in Michigan for 30 years. Although we don't see this stuff with nearly the frequency that you do, I will never forget the morning of May 31, 1998, when we had a massive tornadic line move across the lake from Wisconsin and hit us at 4 am. I remember our chief showing me the radar at 1 am, telling me to fire up the generator and get ready for a wild ride (fortunately there was time to prepare). When it hit, the tornado warnings popped like a row of firecrackers. It was a skeleton crew....me, the chief and one director also handling TD and audio with stationary cameras in-studio. The weather wire was in MCR, so when NWS popped a new warning (which seemed like ever two minutes or so), I'd relay it to the director on intercom, who then relayed to the chief on his IFB. Then I'd run the copy down the hall to studio and hand it to him off-camera. Sure enough, we lost utility power at the transmitter and had to trunk over to generator. No generator at the studio site, but thankfully, we never lost power there. No evacuation was needed, but still, it was the most eventful (and scary) night I've ever spent in this business!
Dan Drolett I remember May 31st, 1998 as well we had a Tornado that tracked 62 miles from Tioga,Broome, and Delaware counties in upstate NY. Unbelievable
Dan Drolett 😢 I'm in a sad mood right now. You're story is about to make me cry. Also I'll tell you guys a story. (not in a studio) So I was in my van with my mom. We lived in Missouri at the time, memory starts here. It's getting blurry already, glad it is. We were stuck at a red stoplight, it was moving back and forth violently, surprised it didn't snap off since it was on a wire. I kept screaming go go! Funnel cloud roaring above us, a pole flew by the car, as well as a tree. My mom kept saying I can't Zach! I was screaming and crying. The tornado touched down across the Missouri lake? Or St.Louid river? I can't remember what body of water it touched down by. Anyways that's all I remember. I can't remember the rest of the trip home. But, I do remember coming down the stairs, into the basement , to see my dad and 2 sisters coming back up. The tornado had passed then. That's my story.
This is all true. Ever since I've been scared of storms. Servere thunder storm is servere fear for me.
I was in that stupid tornado. My house was 1206 Bienville Street. In Tupelo, ms. I remember we got out of Tupelo high early, and went home. A friend called us and we turned on the news right as he was yelling BASEMENT NOW!! I grabbed my dog and ran into the bathroom closet. If some don’t believe me, our tree in the front yard fell on the house. If you go there now, it’s a empty space, unless they put a new house by now.
Kudos to him for keeping his cool. I would have flipped out.
Matt Lapong's name is right at the bottom left corner of the video. It's Matt Laubhan. Young or not he did a fantastic job of covering this and giving the right information to the viewers in his area. If he could clone himself I'd want him in the most southern part of Indiana covering the weather for us. I'd feel safer.
EdwardoNorton FUNNNNY! My last name is Randolph.
I'd love to have a clone in Minneapolis. Maybe train Belinda Jensen
Doug Donnelly this weather is rare in Minn. Besides the 98 tornado in st Peter. Mn really has not had a major tornado since.
I would love him in dallas TX
@@Nukenado-dr9nz yes! Iwould love him or of course james spann here!
When Matt Laubhan seeks shelter, you know it's about to get scary. So be safe if your county is in a tornado warning.
I can't believe people are bitching about this guy. Not only does he give me the impression that he's a top shelf meteorologist but he's educational while he does his thing. 👏
+PhabTribute Matt is a fantastic weather broadcaster and a person with a great heart, is a family man, and does his job to the letter. The people of Tupelo are very lucky to have him and the people that live there will assure you of that
+Boss Key This guy is a better met than Mike Morgan certainly. "Drive south"
People like Mike Morgan and David Payne aren't bad meteorologists, they have just gotten blinded over the years with all the corporate greed on getting ratings. It wasn't always like that, but now days the more you sound all crazy on the TV about a terrible situation underway the more people will react to it. Whether it be positive or negative it draws attention and that's what those networks want now in order to compete with each other. I prefer a broadcaster who knows how to balance all of that but also know the most important job over everything else is to let people know what is going on without all the drama with it.
Should have had that Emmy taken away for telling people to drive south on May 31st.
@@WWERULEZ1000 well its not his fault the storm sent at a different direction suddenly than normal...
You can tell as time went on (especially when it was confirmed on the ground and matt saw it on towercam) Matt got more and more nervous/scared... Especially when he realized it was multivortex
I still only watch Matt till this day NOBODY else… He don’t make me feel anxious and I can think clearly about what to do!
Matt we Love you. Thank you for all you do for us here in Tupelo. Mississippi Gal, Born and Raised!!!
It is always refreshing to observe someone who is passionate about their job..
Matt is the James spann of Mississippi.
Yes definitely! I love him
What a crazy day. I was wedged into a small storm shelter with two scared and crying kids and 5 cats. The tornado hit the neighborhood I was in and my wife was texting me because she watched the broadcast from work and knew I was in the Joyner neighborhood. It hit the other side from us so until I got activated to guard the damage later I didn’t see how close it came to me. Props to Matt for being such a great weatherman.
A few things from a tornado alley resident:
1) I have watched the entire playlist a few times. The use of the cellular network (first having someone from NWS MEG on the phone to relay information, then to put the radar on the air as a backup was a very wise move (when it worked - obviously you can’t help network overcrowding), though I probably wouldn’t have left the twitter notifications on because at one point in a later part, you did have someone using a racial epithet on there. Instead, have somebody else monitoring the socials.
2) For those wondering, as was noted a KVM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse switcher) just allows somebody to switch video sources with just either a click or keystroke. When the power flickered off, that probably took a surge. If that’s not working, that’s bad during weather coverage. The engineers were probably running around like mad. This probably also contributed to the video equipment issue which is why we got less than broadcast quality footage here. Neither are Matt’s fault, and considering these, he did the best he could with what he had.
3) Let’s not forget, these meteorologists are HUMAN. They make mistakes, they get emotional - and most importantly, they often have family in the path or are themselves (both of which occurred here!). John Dolusic actually lives (or did at the time) in the Joyner neighborhood if I recall which took a direct hit. And Matt mentioned on air that his wife (also on the staff at the station) was concerned about their family - a perfectly reasonable concern!
You know it’s bad when they declare a Tornado Emergency. 49:46
Matt, I live in Newfoundland, and cannot even imagine how terrifying a tornado must be to live through, let alone report as it hits you… you are a god in a man’s form, a hero of meteorology. This video should be shown in schools, to show everyone: THIS is what reporting should be. Calm, cool, collected, and on-point, even in such dangerous moments as this.
Very professional yet urgent information. This is how it should be done! Thanks for posting this. Hopefully there was no major damage.
I clearly remember this...you did an incredible job Matt.
Basement, now. Basement, now.
Almost the same thing happened to Matt and the crew on Monday Night. Lost all lower to the studio after the transformer blew then a tornado developed just to their east. All they had was broadcasting non Facebook live and using their radar scope apps on their phones and tablets
When was this?
We Love Matt over here. You do a great job buddy.
If you lived in Tupelo you know to get to shelter when the meteorologists are running to the basement
Tupelo never did sound the sirens, did they...?
You did a good job under incredibly stressful circumstances.
I couldn’t hear them, and that tornado dropped a darn oak tree on our house. We had to move after that
Some sirens went off but there were many that didn’t. Where I live there are tornado sirens that are across the street from our neighborhood and they never went off when this was going on. It was very weird
@@FlagraNightwalker a0
Sometimes sirens fail... That's why EVERYONE should not rely on sirens (that plus the fact alot of the time you won't hear them indoors in a major thunderstorm especially if you have the tv on or something) and have multiple way of getting warnings.
50:19 I liked that evacuation bit
"Now!"
"what?"
Dave, now!
I just like this video even though I am from Montgomery, AL and not Tupelo, MS. We had this severe weather on the same day as Tupelo. 2014 was pretty bad with storms
Wow! You did a fantastic job, especially under the circumstances... the definition of professionalism, in my opinion.
Matt Laubhan at his finest!
I watched this thing the day it happened. My little sister was went to the Joyner School. I was on Bienville street which was near Gloster and Lumpkin streets. It knocked a oak tree on our house and blocked the way out and we had to break a window to leave. Our house was destroyed afterwards by a bulldozer as it was no longer safe to go into. The shed and the four trees we had planted in the back were fine. But we had to move shortly after that.
I'm in Alabama. This fellow is great ! Totally impressed.
I think he did a pretty good job with what he had. When an EF2 tornado hit Monroe, LA (my hometown) in 2014, ALL major TV networks and all but two radio stations went off the air and were off the air for hours.
To be fair, this guy is pretty young, and being a TV meteorologist especially during a severe weather outbreak is an extremely stressful job. So yes, while I agree that Matt Lapong (or whatever his name is) could've done a better job, he did do a very good job getting the crew to shelter toward the end of the video.
lol
@@WesHuntermusicman lol what?
He said f uck that basement put that radar up😂 no one in the control room dudeee
Proof right there of the value of generators at both studio and XMTR sites!
50:19 I love the Basement evacuation
Cassie Miller BASEMENT NOW!!! BASEMENT NOW!!!
me too
Gangster as fuck lol
Yeah me to, especially because he lisping the order "EVERYBODY, basement NOW... BASEMENT NOW!" xD
Matt Laubhan I had your moment when Jonesboro Arkansas was hit by a tornado when Kait8 our local weather showed it on TV I breathe really hard watching it. Watching it living in Brookland Arkansas a couple of miles away
this guy is a great meteorologist,but he does look like a 17 year old.....everything he said was right...can't blame a little excitability there,i mean the tornado did pass very close to the station....
He looks like RFK.
“Wanna know what happened JOHN?!”
In the FIVE MINUTES we didn't have radar data
It produced a tornado
Meteorology is the career I'm looking forward to join, I want to keep people of my city safe during severe weather no matter what, As a kid I was obsessed with weather radars and other weather equipment, In high school, I was lucky to visit my local news station in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, I met Meteorologist Ashley Baylor and watched live from inside the studio in real time, An experience I'll remember for as long as I live, I hope I can make it.
Great job, but what happened to the radar at Columbus AFB on that day?
Tornado cut a fiber optic line that carried internet as well as the sat uplink for the tv signal to Dish/DirecTV.
The Weatherman equivalent to Bob Ross and Mr Rogers.
27:35 ... A tornado is bearing down on Matt yet he still uses the subjunctive correctly. Nerves of steel.
More like titanium!
This guy is too cute! I'm sorry that does sound condescending, I'm sorry. I've been a spotter for 16 years almost, not once have I ever made a report and I'm sure the first time I do I'll be all shaking and everything. Was this his first time covering such and event? "Basement, NOW!" We have very dramatic meteorologists on our TV stations too, and they're quite seasoned actually. He was doing his best I'm sure. I'll bet it was pretty scary, but I can't help but giggle just a bit. Oh and he did a great job explaining what we were looking at especially on the live cameras. Many people really appreciate that because radar is just colors to them.
Strandysmommy his first major event was the april 2011 super tuesday outbreak. Was actually only on the job for a day or two before that outbreak occurred. He handled it pretty well. Alot of local people here around tupelo love him.
I think he was just trying to convey the seriousness to them. It was made to sound like, "You need to go now, no questions needed, just do it." It sounded more like a parent to me.
He wasn’t being dramatic, a tornado was coming straight for his studio, which was in southern Saltillo. He had every reason to get everyone into the basement
I was in Tueplo visiting the Elvis museum one month before this twister hit. I was at the Mall there too. I could have been killed in this storm! There was an ICE storm that day I was there. Amazing what mother nature can do.
Jeffrey McCall Defiantly man. I literally never knew about this until a few months after the tornado outbreak
yup
36:35 HOW
I been a strom chaser for seven years i becsme a storm chaser when i retired from the fire servive from a back injury i got in the line of duty sbd now i have arthritis in my back and neck and severe nerve pain im going to miss storm chasing when i have to retire
Congratulations on zero fatalities with this storm (at least that's what the Tornado History Project is telling me)
There was an unrelated tornado fatality but a storm related one occured due to the car hydroplaning
saw him in the weather channel
I live in Belden and it ripped through Ballard park and Belden it was so scary we saw the tornado the sky was red
Red?
Green yeah, I can understand that but red?
Matt, this is why the construction of all wood-frame homes in Tornado Alley in the U.S. should be permanently ended, and all homes to be built out of steel and stone frames. I think those would hold up a lot better than wood does. o.o
By the way, for the record, I'm in the Canadian province of Ontario...Southern Ontario to be exact, near Toronto, Canada's Largest City. =P
Or just make all homes have a basement/storm cellar. Even in a concrete home I would want to be underground.
I remember hearing that basements were required on all new residential builds in Moore, Oklahoma after the 1999 EF5 tornado there.
Ragin' Ronic you have to remember that Mississippi is number 49 or 50 in many categories, including household income. If all new construction were reinforced concrete, the structures would be so expensive that no one could afford them (myself included). It would be great to require a storm shelter in each house, but again, even that would increase the price $7-10k per house. That might not sound like much, but it would be close to 1/3 of the annual household income for many families.
Matt Laubhan Same situation I hear in Alabama. James Spann and others set up a fund there to buy NOAA Alert radios for low-income residents. $40 for a radio might not seem like a lot to spend, but when you're living below the poverty line, that's a wad of cash!
reverse thrust I won’t speak for Matt, however in general media in small markets (based on population in their market) are paid less than bigger markets.
In general Tupelo would probably be paid less than Mobile which would be less than Atlanta
You are a hero
I remember this tornado warning
Great job of protecting your community and surrounding communities, just wondering why maybe there was never any correlation coefficient being looked at on any of these warnings. It sure would have helped to verify certain entities that a weather chaser couldn't. Great job though Matt.
Fisher Mcknight thanks! At the time, WSI (our Radar vendor) didn’t offer correlation coefficient. We had access to it on a computer with GR2AE, but we were having some data issues if I remember right. You’re right though, it was very evident on CC once it touched down. It’s amazing how much more a part of coverage CC has become in the last few years.
Matt Laubhan yeah, I don't guess I was thinking about that sorry. Keep doing a great job. You're needed by many folks. Praying for your ability to help folks in the future.
Like how Matt takes action 50:19
It sounds like it's raining inside the studio.
Hail probably.
50:00
Your a hero come to ft worth pls xD
I lived there at the time it was traject😓
You mean tragic lol. Anyway i am sorry what you went through. It mustve been scary!
50:17 when its 12 am and your kids bedroom is in the basement
I was seven years old that day I was at pontotoc elementary in second grade the sky turned black and I knew it was bad then my mom who was a sub at that school came and got me and we went into the library closet and waited it out we all prayed we where lucky it didn’t form on us we would’ve probably got hurt
This guy is awesome. ❤️❤️❤️
He called the tornado in tupelo 30 min before it hit..
How strong was this tornado like a 2?
EF-3
@@williamwest9601 at least it weren't a EF-5. That one's a finger of God!
Matt Laubhan = Weather Jesus
You know it’s bad when the weathermen are tense
When your wifi is shit or down, "mither fickin wifi!"
I was at school when this went down I think
Great job guy!!
Makes me wish you were my cities weatherman
But I want to go outside, dude wheres my car?
Is that what happened after the power glitch? The videos I see show The freeze part cuz I assume power glitch and then next thing you're yelling people to go to safety. Nice. Way to keep control
I think it means the channel was off air before he yelled to everyone to go to the basemen
Basement
This is hard to explain. As on tv it shows the cut out part due to the station getting knocked off air. This was recorded with equipment, that’s why there isn’t any graphics and such.
TUPLEO AS WE SPEAK
torNADO TUPLRO
Pontotoc is home town omg
This is great
good job man
49:35
This guy is great
who here from the tik tok video?
Really random thought that just came to me:
What are other countries saying about the US ya know about the riots and all that?
If your from another county what you guys saying about us haha
i live in tupelo
bobby whitten so what!!!
looks like Doogie Howser
Nice to see a little young blood in the meteorology end of things!😃
And I saw Matt laubhan at Chick-fil-A
a safe place ? is not allways the safeist you can get trapped in youre basement in youre car you can have youre windows shatterd you can go airborne under a bridge never a trailer is easaly demolished what ya gunna do
david marshall, that’s true, but that is why you plan ahead when the outlook comes out the day before or the watch is issued: plan to locate and get to the safest place possible. If you take a direct hit from a tornado, it’s going to be very unpleasant at best, and deadly at worst. Trapped in a basement is unpleasant, but much better than carried away and smashed by/into a tree.
there has been no warning tornados invisable tornados night time ones hidden by rain etc youre words are so true people when sirens go off have a plan to get somewhere safe its no fun being vulnerable to uncontrolled forces damn nature youre scary
@@davidmarshall385 yes there's been tornadoes with no warnings,but days they happen theres been a risk area put out by the nws SPC by at LEAST the day before or day of. So when that's put out and there's even a marginal or slight risk area for your area that's when you plan. If it makes you feel better when there's a risk area for where you are you can just go to your safe place whenever there's any storm that goes over your house.
basement *N O W*
Come on, at 360p this video is barely watchable. It looks terrible.
Our good recording equipment was knocked out when we lost internet coverage.
Gary T. This was 2014, they didn’t have 4K. At least this was recorded. Most of their equipment was knocked out anyway. This was the bet they got.
This guy sounds like a Alabama Preacher.
🤣🤣
This guy is annoying lol. Good coverage but still kind of annoying.
imhoooks lmfao get outta here period blood tide
Alabama ewwwww get outta here ur the gumbos jk kidding but still ewwwww
@@Pure_Columbiana #hottytoddy, shirtless Orgeron or should I say blow your bag pipes fan. Lol
Easy for you to say as this guy is risking his life at times.