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The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest, costliest, and one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded, taking place in the Southern, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States from April 25 to 28, 2011, leaving catastrophic destruction in its wake.
It is one of the costliest tornadoes on record, and was one of the 367 tornadoes in the 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history. The tornado reached a maximum path width of 1.5 miles (2.4 km) during its track through Tuscaloosa, and again when it crossed I-65 north of Birmingham, attaining estimated wind ...
The 2011 Rainsville, Alabama tornado was a catastrophic EF5 tornado that struck parts of northeast Alabama on the late afternoon of April 27, 2011. It was the fourth and final EF5 of the historic 2011 Super Outbreak , the largest tornado outbreak ever recorded.
Seven tornadoes–the Vilonia tornado on April 25 and six tornadoes on April 27–stayed on the ground for over an hour. The long-track Mississippi–Alabama EF4 tornado was down from 2 hours, 53 minutes, the longest duration for a tornado in the outbreak. [7]
Apr. 27—Ten years after an outbreak of tornadoes swept through the Tennessee Valley killing 18 people in Lawrence and Limestone counties, authorities say advanced technology and more storm ...
The third most memorable tornado of Timmer's 25-year career was the most powerful he's recalled. On April 27, 2011, an EF5 tornado tore through multiple counties in east-central Mississippi ...
April has historically witnessed some of the most severe tornado patterns on record, including the largest and second-largest outbreaks in recorded history. On April 27, 2011, the U.S. experienced ...
The 2011 Philadelphia, Mississippi tornado was an extremely powerful and fast-moving multi-vortex tornado that touched down in eastern Mississippi on the afternoon of April 27, 2011. Part of the historic 2011 Super Outbreak , the largest tornado outbreak on record, this was the first of four EF5 tornadoes to touch down that day and the first ...