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September and October were also below average. November was somewhat more active, primarily due to two moderate outbreaks in the first half of the month. December saw a return to inactivity for most of the month, but there was a small outbreak of 13 tornadoes on December 22, making it the final tornado outbreak of the year.
The damage path of the tornado was 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) wide. This tornado was only the eighth in Georgia to be categorized as an F4/EF4 on the Fujita scale since 1950, when current official tornado records begin. [145] [148] [152] It would be the last EF4 tornado in the state until March 26, 2021, when Newnan was struck just after midnight.
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 Alabama.
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
These tornadoes were part of a major outbreak of tornadoes, the 2011 Super Outbreak, in which 367 tornadoes touched down across 21 states in the Southern, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States and in Ontario, Canada, making it the largest tornado outbreak on record.
Currently, the 2011 Super Outbreak holds the all-time record for the most tornado emergencies issued during a 24-hour period, with a cumulative total of 16 issued (between four local NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) serving the southeastern United States) during the outbreak event.
The end of April 2021 marks an entire decade since a severe weather event that the National Weather Service called "one of the most active, destructive, and deadly" in U.S. history for tornadoes ...
The most violent outbreak of tornadoes in history, the 1974 Super Outbreak, releases 148 tornadoes in 13 American states and one province in Canada. Thousands of homes are destroyed and more than 330 people die; 5,000 people are left homeless or injured.