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Of those 226 tornadoes, 59 touched down in Alabama and 83 began in Tennessee, accounting for 62.8 percent of the tornadoes that touched down on April 27. [63] On April 27 alone, the National Weather Service in Huntsville, Alabama, issued 92 tornado warnings, 31 severe thunderstorm warnings, and seven flash flood warnings. [64]
This list of Alabama tornado events includes notable storms which affected the US state of Alabama. Because it is not always simple to determine if damage was caused by multiple tornadoes or by a single tornado moving across an area, then the list includes the overall tornado events. Several events also affected other U.S. states.
The tornadoes that occurred by the Rainsville supercell, two of which were a powerful EF5 tornado in Philadelphia, Mississippi and a long tracked EF4 tornado in Cordova-Blountsville, Alabama. The meteorological conditions leading up to the tornado were among the most favorable for violent tornadoes ever documented.
Tornadoes, wind gusts, and large hail are expected to hit the southeast through Thursday, the National Weather Service said. Chilling photos and videos show multiple tornadoes in 'outbreak' across ...
A damaged home is seen in the aftermath of severe weather, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, near Prattville, Ala. A large tornado damaged homes and uprooted trees in Alabama on Thursday as a powerful ...
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 ...
A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South spurred a tornado on Thursday that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma, Alabama, a city etched in the ...
2011 Super Outbreak#Pisgah–Flat Rock–Higdon, Alabama/Trenton, Georgia — The tornado rapidly intensified to low-end EF4 strength after touching down as it passed northwest of Pisgah and Rosalie, destroying numerous mobile homes and block foundation homes, scattering the debris hundreds of yards and killing three people. Thousands of trees ...