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In the evening hours of April 27, 2011, a large, long-lived and deadly EF5 tornado, commonly known as either the Hackleburg tornado, [2] [3] the Phil Campbell tornado, [4] or simply Hackleburg–Phil Campbell, [5] devastated several towns in rural northern Alabama before tearing through the northern suburbs of Huntsville. was the deadliest tornado of the 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest ...
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 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.
Fierce storms including at least one confirmed tornado ripped across central Alabama Thursday, with “a series of strong, long-track tornadoes” expected to increase across the region throughout ...
This made it the deadliest single tornado ever to strike the state of Alabama as well as (at the time) the deadliest in the United States since the 1955 Udall, Kansas, tornado that killed 80 people. [ 104 ] [ 105 ] In addition to being the deadliest, this tornado also had the longest track of any tornado in the outbreak, with its path extending ...
“Several long track tornadoes are expected.” The weather service on Saturday evening issued an additional tornado watch impacting 3.5 million people for parts of Alabama, Florida, ...
This tornado was one of the fifteen violent tornadoes to happen during the extremely active 2011 Super Outbreak, which is the largest and costliest tornado outbreak in United States history. The long-track wedge tornado touched down a few miles northeast of Trussville and traveled 97 miles from Alabama to Georgia. Throughout its track, the ...
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 ...