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During the late afternoon and early evening of April 27, 2011, a violent, high-end EF4 multi-vortex tornado known 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.
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. [62] On April 27 alone, the National Weather Service in Huntsville, Alabama, issued 92 tornado warnings, 31 severe thunderstorm warnings , and seven flash flood warnings .
The 2011 Rainsville, Alabama tornado was a catastrophic EF5 tornado that struck parts of northeast Alabama on the late afternoon of April 27, 2011.It was the fourth and final EF5 of the historic 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak ever recorded.
Apr. 27—Ten years ago today, the worst tornado outbreak since 1974 struck the state of Alabama. Over a stretch of 18 hours, 62 tornadoes ripped their way through the state, killing 254, injuring ...
In the afternoon hours of April 27, 2011, a large and long-tracked EF4 tornado moved across Central Alabama, devastating several communities along a 127.8-mile (205.7 km) path, including Cordova and Blountsville. The tornado killed 13 and had a maximum width of 1,408 yards (0.800 mi).
Among infamous Alabama tornadoes, you may first think of the iconic EF4 tornado shown live as it ripped through Tuscaloosa during the April 2011 Super Outbreak. But on December 16, 2000, 24 years ...
During her tenure, the organization was a key player in Tuscaloosa’s recovery from the devastation of the April 27, 2011 tornado, with more than 100 new homes constructed and over 500 existing ...
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]