The intensity of Laubhan’s words of warning led her to hunker down. All of a sudden, Matt says, ‘This is a potentially deadly tornado.’ I just remember him saying ‘deadly’ over and over.'” “We knew it was coming, but you didn’t know if it was going to touch down. “He saved lives, for sure,” Hubbard told the outlet.

His tone and tenor told Hubbard and others something was different from the norm. Leah Ann Hubbard told T he Independent she’s used to tornado weather in Mississippi but that Laubhan’s report dismantled the typically “unfazed” feeling many have during these storms. The video of Laubhan’s prayer quickly went viral, but the impact is now getting increased attention, with some residents of Amory crediting the meteorologist with saving their lives.

Then Laubhan stopped to seek God in the middle of his report, proclaiming, “Dear Jesus, please help them. “Oh man, like, north side of Amory, this is coming in.

We’ve got new scan coming in here as we speak,” he said during an on-air report Friday night before pausing, looking down, and letting out a worried sigh as he saw the real-time severity. “So, Amory, we need to be in our tornado-safe place. Listen to the latest episode of CBN’s Quick Start podcast :īut WTVA-TV Chief Meteorologist Matt Laubhan’s now-viral invocation is also being credited with saving lives, as residents of the small town of Amory, Mississippi, heard it moments before a deadly tornado hit. It’s become the prayer heard around the world - a desperate and heartfelt plea to the Lord from a meteorologist stunned, beleaguered, and beside himself due to the troubling storm report he was delivering.

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