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On the evening of April 27, 2011, a violent, deadly and destructive high-end EF4 multi-vortex tornado, commonly known as either the Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado, [1] or more simply the Tuscaloosa tornado, [2] devastated portions of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama, as well as smaller communities and rural areas between the two cities.
A large multiple-vortex wedge tornado touched down in rural Greene County, Alabama, and tracked across neighboring Tuscaloosa County, including the southern and eastern portions of Tuscaloosa at around 5:10 p.m. CDT (22:10 UTC) on April 27.
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).
Several tornadoes from the outbreak were exceptionally long-tracked. Three tornadoes on April 27 travelled over 120 miles (190 km), with a fourth traversing 97 miles (156 km). Seven tornadoes–the Vilonia tornado on April 25 and six tornadoes on April 27–stayed on the ground for over an hour.
EF5-rated damage in Hackleburg, Alabama where a large tornado killed seventeen residents. The 2011 Super Outbreak, which took place across the Southern United States from April 25–28, 2011, was the largest and third-deadliest tornado outbreak in United States history, [1] with 359 tornadoes resulting in the deaths of at least 324 people, [2] [3] the majority of whom lived in the state of ...
On April 27, President Barack Obama approved Governor Robert Bentley's request for emergency federal assistance including search and rescue support. On April 28, 2011, the National Weather Service sent out people to survey the damage; however, with the large number of tornadoes across Alabama, the reports were not finalized for months.
He won an Emmy award for coverage of the Tuscaloosa tornado on December 16, 2000, alongside meteorologist James Spann. A decade later, he was the first storm spotter/meteorologist to capture video of the April 27, 2011, Tuscaloosa tornado and transmit that to ABC 33/40, approximately 30 minutes before the tornado struck the city. Spann later ...
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 ...