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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.
Seven tornadoes–the Vilonia tornado on April 25 and six tornadoes on April 27–stayed on the ground for over an hour. The long-track Mississippi–Alabama EF4 tornado was down from 2 hours, 53 minutes, the longest duration for a tornado in the outbreak. [7]
In total, this tornado killed 72 people, all in Alabama. 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 a 1955 tornado in Udall, Kansas killed 80 people – the 2011 Joplin tornado a month later killed 158. The path of the tornado was 132 miles (212 ...
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 .
Two states saw a significant spike in deaths due to tornadoes in 2011, which is why they rank first and second. Tornadoes put Alabama, Missouri on top of most dangerous weather list Skip to main ...
Rare high risk outlook issued by the National Weather Service on April 27, 2011. 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 National Weather Service tornado database records two EF-3 tornadoes in the county's past. ... Path length: 27.22 miles. Path width: 1,400 yards. Start time: 6:50 a.m. near Fort Braden.
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.