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During the late afternoon and early evening hours of April 27, 2011, a violent and deadly high-end EF4 multi-vortex tornado, commonly referred to as the Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado or the Tuscaloosa tornado, destroyed portions of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama, as well as smaller communities and rural areas between the two cities.
It's probably not the one you remember most, but it was also deadly and destructive.
March 1994: 1994 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak (8 counties) [1] May 1995: May 1995 Tornado Outbreak Sequence (Huntsville) [1] April 1998: April 1998 Birmingham tornado [1] December 2000: December 2000 Tuscaloosa tornado [1] November 2001: Arkansas–Mississippi–Alabama tornado outbreak; November 2002: 2002 Veterans Day Weekend tornado outbreak [1]
The tornado then moved into a wooded area, weakened, and eventually lifted south-southwest of Guntersville at 5:56 p.m. CDT (22:56 UTC). Thousands of trees were downed along the tornado's path. [17] The tornado was on the ground for two hours and sixteen minutes, tracking for 127.8 miles (205.7 km) across seven counties.
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The tornado then exited the Tuscaloosa area and moved through dense forest towards Birmingham, downing and debarking thousands of trees at low-end EF3 intensity. [121] Radar reflectivity and velocity image of the supercell that produced the tornado at 22:10 UTC (5:12 p.m. CDT) as it struck Tuscaloosa, with a debris ball clearly visible.