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This list of Alabama tornado events includes notable storms which affected the US state of Alabama. Because it is not always simple to determine if damage was caused by multiple tornadoes or by a single tornado moving across an area, then the list includes the overall tornado events. Several events also affected other U.S. states.
In total, this specific tornado killed 72 people, all in Alabama. This made it the deadliest single tornado ever to strike the state of Alabama as well as (at the time) the deadliest in the United States since a 1955 tornado in Udall, Kansas killed 80 people – the 2011 Joplin tornado a month later killed 158. The path of the tornado was 132 ...
Based on the damage, it may have been the strongest tornado ever recorded (though no mobile radar measurements were taken to confirm this). An F4 devastated neighborhoods near Lake Travis, and an F3 tornado caused major damage in Cedar Park. (8 significant, 2 violent killer) 1997 Southeast Michigan tornado outbreak: July 1–3, 1997
In addition to setting the record for most tornadoes in a calendar day (223; midnight to midnight CDT (05:00 – 05:00 UTC)), it also broke the record for the most tornado touchdowns in any 24-hour period with 226 from 12:40 a.m. to 12:40 a.m. CDT (05:40 – 05:40 UTC) April 27–28, breaking the old 24-hour record of 148 set by the 1974 Super ...
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 ...
The strongest (violent EF4/EF5) tornadoes occurred in the high-risk area (many in/near the 45% probability) while dozens of other tornadoes were confirmed throughout the other risk areas. Three of the tornadoes tracked over 100 miles (160 km), with one of them becoming the deadliest tornado ever recorded in Alabama. Several areas that had ...
On May 3, 1999, an F5 tornado struck Bridge Creek and Moore, Oklahoma, with winds of over 300 mph - the highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth. Nearly 600 people were injured, and 36 were ...
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [5] [12] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.