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A flattened residence in Concord, Alabama after the EF4 tornado. By the time the tornado lifted northeast of Birmingham, it had left behind a path of destruction of 80.68 miles (129.84 km) through Greene, Tuscaloosa and Jefferson counties. The tornado killed 64 people, including six University of Alabama students. [25]
The tornado killed 6, injured over 40, and impacted hundreds of structures. It occurred as part of the largest tornado outbreak in modern history, and was the second violent tornado of the outbreak, touching down after the Philadelphia, Mississippi tornado.
Since records have been kept in 1950, the Tuscaloosa tornado is the third deadliest tornado in December, tied with an F4 tornado near Murphysboro, Illinois on December 18, 1957, and behind the Vicksburg, Mississippi F5 tornado on December 5, 1953, which killed 38 people, and the Western Kentucky EF4 tornado on December 10, 2021, which killed 57 ...
Rescuers began tearing through the rubble of mobile homes and houses Monday in search of survivors of a powerful tornado that rampaged through southeast Alabama and killed at least 23 people ...
The tornadoes in Alabama that killed at least 23 people, three of them young children, included a "monster tornado" and the deadliest U.S. storm since 2013.
The youngest victim was 6, the oldest 89. Relatives said one extended family lost 10 members. The 23 people killed in the nation's deadliest tornado in nearly six years came into focus Tuesday ...
This made it the deadliest single tornado ever to strike the state of Alabama [26] as well as (at the time) the deadliest in the United States since the 1955 Udall, Kansas tornado that killed 80 people. [3] [27] This death toll would go on to be exceeded by the Joplin EF5 tornado, which killed 158 people on May 22 of the same year. Damage from ...
The tornado killed 20 people and injured hundreds more along its 48-mile (77 km) path across Catoosa, Hamilton, Bradley, Polk, and McMinn counties. The tornado was given a rating of EF4 with peak wind speed of 190 mph (310 km/h). The damage path of the tornado was 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) wide.