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The 2011 Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado was a violent, deadly and destructive high-end EF4 multi-vortex tornado that destroyed portions of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama, as well as smaller communities and rural areas between the two cities, during the afternoon and evening hours of April 27, 2011. The tornado, also commonly referred to as ...
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]
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 ...
In the afternoon hours of April 27, 2011, a large and long-tracked EF4 tornado moved across Central Alabama, devastating several communities, including Cordova and Blountsville, along a 127.8-mile (205.7 km) path. The tornado killed 13 and had a maximum width of 1,408 yards (0.800 mi).
Almost 200 power poles in and around Cullman were leveled, and 4,000 volunteers from the Tennessee Valley Authority helped to restore power, although some residents were still without power a week after the tornado. [21] The State of Alabama gave $5,989,728 (2011 USD) to the City of Cullman to aid with recovery efforts, and a further $1,294,892 ...
Amid a severe tornado outbreak across the South from April 25-28, 2011, a reported 207 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone. ... Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia, ...
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 2011 Rainsville tornado was a large and extremely powerful EF5 tornado that struck parts of northeast Alabama, in the early evening hours of April 27, 2011, causing incredible damage, notably in the town of Rainsville, Alabama.