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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.
F5 and EF5 Tornadoes in the United States 1950–2019 Detailed map. The tornadoes on this list have been formally rated F5 by an official government source. Unless otherwise noted, the source of the F5 rating is the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), as shown in the archives of the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and National Climatic Data ...
Outbreak produced the Candlestick Park tornado, which was an extremely violent F5 tornado or tornado family that killed 58 people and traveled 202.5 mi (325.9 km) across Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of the longest such paths on record and one of only four official F5 tornadoes to hit Mississippi.
Tornado outbreak sequence of May 25 – June 1, 1917; 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak; April 1920 tornado outbreak; April 1924 tornado outbreak; 1932 Deep South tornado outbreak; 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak; 1936 Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of March 16–17, 1942; Tornado outbreak of February 12, 1945
While tornadoes are less common in New York compared to regions like the Midwest, they remain a notable and occasionally destructive aspect of the state's weather history. See Rochester tornadoes.
After doing so, it weakened into a TD and stayed over Alabama until it dissipated. [2] August 31, 1950: Hurricane Baker, as a Category 1, made landfall just to the east of Mobile. As it moved further north, a death and two injuries occurred from downed power lines in Birmingham. Additionally, 10.89 inches of rain was recorded. [7] [2]
The first tornado outbreak to be documented in the new tornado database, this deadly series of intense tornadoes struck areas from the Gulf Coast into the Ohio Valley. The strongest event was an F4 tornado that tore an 82.6-mile-path (132.9 km) near Shreveport, Louisiana , although further analysis concluded that this was likely a tornado family .
Prior to 1950 in the United States, only significant tornadoes are listed for the number of tornadoes in outbreaks. Due to increasing detection, particularly in the U.S., numbers of counted tornadoes have increased markedly in recent decades although the number of actual tornadoes and counted significant tornadoes has not. In older events, the ...