One year ago...

[Cyclenall]

Another pic of the Philadelphia, MS tornado close up destroying some houses/buildings while chasers watch in disbelief.



I think everyone has seen this one by now. Violent wedge in the background of nice house. If that was my house, I would be watching that thing on the porch . A similar scene occurred with the Andover KS F5 from 1991 in which this tornado was similar itself.

Last year in the 3 pm CDT hour - EF4 tornado in Cullman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvlcuodab1U

Did you read any of my post on the first page? I posted that exact video and even embedded it!! The next video:

Also about now, the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell/Tanner etc. long-tracker was touching down...and 72 people would be lost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7i4CbYLEQ

I posted that exact one too. Great work on the timeline aspect of this Crazy.

When northern Alabama was being "devoured" by violent tornadoes, I think that was a perfect time for the SPC to issue the second only 60% Tornado Probability area. The third time should have been south-central Kansas on April 14 2012 that evening.

You think that's crazy? Check out this Tuscaloosa video!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_B7GSpgktI[/youtube]

Ahh yeah....a large violent EF4/EF5 tornado coming right at you and the guy is filming at the window...how does one not mess his pants? That is one of the closest calls ever for sure and the cliche "Dodged a bullet" can be used here! He probably thought for a second he was filming his with everyone else's demise and with that said, they were extremely close to being toast.

[CrazyC83]

Another pic of the Philadelphia, MS tornado close up destroying some houses/buildings while chasers watch in disbelief.



I think everyone has seen this one by now. Violent wedge in the background of nice house. If that was my house, I would be watching that thing on the porch . A similar scene occurred with the Andover KS F5 from 1991 in which this tornado was similar itself.

Last year in the 3 pm CDT hour - EF4 tornado in Cullman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvlcuodab1U

Did you read any of my post on the first page? I posted that exact video and even embedded it!! The next video:

Also about now, the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell/Tanner etc. long-tracker was touching down...and 72 people would be lost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7i4CbYLEQ

I posted that exact one too. Great work on the timeline aspect of this Crazy.

When northern Alabama was being "devoured" by violent tornadoes, I think that was a perfect time for the SPC to issue the second only 60% Tornado Probability area. The third time should have been south-central Kansas on April 14 2012 that evening.

You think that's crazy? Check out this Tuscaloosa video!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_B7GSpgktI[/youtube]

Ahh yeah....a large violent EF4/EF5 tornado coming right at you and the guy is filming at the window...how does one not mess his pants? That is one of the closest calls ever for sure and the cliche "Dodged a bullet" can be used here! He probably thought for a second he was filming his with everyone else's demise and with that said, they were extremely close to being toast.

I didn't know how to embed so I just posted the links. I tried to follow the day, one year later, as close as possible. I just posted a near-complete list of all the victims.

[Cyclenall]

I didn't know how to embed so I just posted the links. I tried to follow the day, one year later, as close as possible. I just posted a near-complete list of all the victims.

To embed YouTube videos just post the link and like all other text, highlight the link and click on the YouTube button when in full reply mode or type [youtube][/youtube] around it manually. I didn't know they released most of the names but I don't ever check that so I wouldn't know otherwise. People as young as 3 months old to 95 years.

[CrazyC83]

I didn't know how to embed so I just posted the links. I tried to follow the day, one year later, as close as possible. I just posted a near-complete list of all the victims.

To embed YouTube videos just post the link and like all other text, highlight the link and click on the YouTube button when in full reply mode or type [youtube][/youtube] around it manually. I didn't know they released most of the names but I don't ever check that so I wouldn't know otherwise. People as young as 3 months old to 95 years.

All the Alabama names were on a single list, so I went ahead and researched the rest. It is posted on the previous page.

[CrazyC83]

Several things could have made the outbreak even worse:

1) Locations of some of the tornadoes. The Tuscaloosa tornado lifted just as it entered the most densely populated part of the Birmingham metropolitan area. It was on a direct path for downtown right at rush hour. In addition, the Ringgold tornado barely missed Chattanooga, and the Blount tornado was just south of Knoxville. Finally, the Atlanta metro was split between several intense tornadoes north and south, but was itself completely spared. If tornadoes had touched down in the metro area that night, it would have made the outbreak much worse.

2) There were over 50 tornadoes in the northern area on April 27 from central Virginia up to southern Ontario, which is very impressive for that region. None of them were stronger than EF2 though. If that area was able to even produce some EF3s and an isolated violent tornado like the northern area did in the 1974 outbreak, the death toll would have spiked greatly.

3) The atmosphere failed to reload on April 28 in the Carolinas and Virginia, and that afternoon, while there were quite a few tornadoes, they were all EF0 or EF1. That was completely different than on April 15 into April 16 when it managed to. There easily could have been a repeat on April 28 in that region, which would have been devastating as well.

If all three of those happened - which would have been easy to do, only a slight increase in strength, a position change in the storms or a repeat of a very recent event - easily the death toll could have been 100 to 300 more than it really was, if not more.

[CrazyC83]

The end result was unimaginable: