James Max Spann Jr. (born June 6, 1956) is a television meteorologist, and podcast host based in Birmingham, Alabama.
[7] Channel 13 was sold to Times Mirror in 1980 and renamed WVTM-TV, and Spann was moved to sister station KDFW in Dallas in 1984.
[10] He is also the chairman and one of the founders of AllWorship.com, a non-profit organization webcasting three streaming radio stations which feature worship music in English and Spanish.
[12] On April 27, 2011, Spann and fellow meteorologist Jason Simpson did over 12 hours of live coverage during the 2011 Super Outbreak for both the morning squall line and afternoon supercells.
[14] He won an Emmy Award with John Oldshue from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for live coverage of a deadly tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on December 16, 2000.
(A camera mounted on the transmitter tower of the former Channel 33 captured live images of the tornado as it moved through the community.)
[19] Spann was countering a statement made by Heidi Cullen, a staff meteorologist with The Weather Channel, who had written that those who disagreed with the view that global warming was caused by man-made events should not be given the Seal of Approval by the American Meteorological Society.
[21] Spann is also a signatory of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation,[22] Which states: "We believe Earth and its ecosystems — created by God's intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence — are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory.