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A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South spurred a tornado on Thursday that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma, Alabama, a city etched in the ...
The Super Tuesday outbreak of Feb. 5-6, 2008, had the most tornadoes for a single February event, with 86 confirmed over 10 states responsible for 57 tornado-related deaths. Five tornadoes were ...
Among the most common safety tips are: When a tornado warning is issued, head to a basement, interior room on the lowest floor away from windows, or an alternate storm shelter if you live in a ...
A storm shelter or storm cellar is a type of underground bunker designed to protect the occupants from severe weather, particularly tornadoes. They are most frequently seen in the Midwest ("Tornado Alley") and Southeastern ("Dixie Alley") United States where tornadoes are generally frequent and the low water table permits underground livings.
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 ...
The tornado briefly weakened back down to EF2, causing major roof damage, before strengthening back to low-end EF3 as multiple homes along School Road lost their exterior walls, and an electrical transmission tower was completely crumpled by the tornado. Numerous trees in and around Farm Creek were snapped and uprooted. [11]
(MORE: Falling Trees – An Underreported, Deadly Danger) The most widespread damaging winds are often produced by squall lines, which are thunderstorms arranged in a line, often from north to ...
An EF0 tornado may damage trees and peel some shingles off roofs, while an EF5 tornado can rip well-anchored homes off their foundations, leaving them bare— even deforming large skyscrapers. The similar TORRO scale ranges from a T0 for extremely weak tornadoes to T11 for the most powerful known tornadoes.