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It's probably not the one you remember most, but it was also deadly and destructive.
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.
The 2011 Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado as it was impacting Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27, 2011 This page was last edited on 19 February 2025, at 17:19 (UTC). ...
Six people were killed by the tornado; five in Ruth and one in rural Cullman County. [24] The five deaths in Ruth occurred when the tornado directly impacted a well-constructed home at EF4 intensity, leveling the building and killing all of the residents of the home; all were in the same family.
The burst of these rare alerts comes a week after four tornado emergencies were issued in Mississippi amid a dangerous tornado outbreak that killed at least 23 people across the South and spawned ...
The National Weather Service in Birmingham is warning Tuscaloosa and much of West Alabama that winds, hail, tornadoes and floods are possible Tuesday.
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 dissipated just east of Penton, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west-northwest of White Plains at 2:08 p.m. CST (20:08 UTC) after traveling 82.31 miles (132.47 km), which resulted in this becoming the sixth longest-tracked tornado in Alabama history. [60] A total of seven people were killed by this tornado, and at least 16 others were injured.