Historic Multi Day Tornado/Flooding Event 4/23-28/2011

[Texas Snowman]

CBS 42 Met: This wedge tornado has been on the ground for more than 60 miles.

Reports: homes flattened in Hueytown.

[Dave]

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WT 242
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
725 PM EDT WED APR 27 2011

TORNADO WATCH 242 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
IN
. INDIANA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

ADAMS BARTHOLOMEW BLACKFORD
BOONE BROWN CARROLL
CASS CLAY CLINTON
DAVIESS DEARBORN DECATUR
DELAWARE FAYETTE FOUNTAIN
FRANKLIN GRANT GREENE
HAMILTON HANCOCK HENDRICKS
HENRY HOWARD HUNTINGTON
JACKSON JAY JENNINGS
JOHNSON KNOX LAWRENCE
MADISON MARION MARTIN
MIAMI MONROE MONTGOMERY
MORGAN OHIO OWEN
PARKE PUTNAM RANDOLPH
RIPLEY RUSH SHELBY
SULLIVAN SWITZERLAND TIPPECANOE
TIPTON UNION VERMILLION
VIGO WABASH WAYNE
WELLS

[apocalypt-flyer]

I've seen a picture or two from Tusca - absolutely speechless.

[Texas Snowman]

Mayor of Tuscaloosa on The Weather Channel - "Parts of our city have suffered extreme damage, some catastrophic damage. Some areas of our city have been obliterated."

[badger70]

Current watch boxes...sure looks like "Super Outbreak II":

[Bunkertor]

Current MDs

[Texas Snowman]

I hope that the other stat from the Super Outbreak in 1974 is not threatened.

That would be the fatalities - 315+.

But a massive mile wide to mile and a half wide tornado producing "obliterating" damage in heavily populated areas for up to 70+ continous miles on the ground.

I shudder to think...

[BigB0882]

I am really scared to think what has happened. Sometimes things looks so bad but somehow there are no or very few fatalities. We can only hope that is the case today.

[CrazyC83]

Finally can get online. One of the 100 or more tornadoes went right over me while on the road!

[Ivanhater]

Picture out of Tuscaloosa....

[CrazyC83]

So this is Super Outbreak II?

[CrazyC83]

My story:

I am on Highway 401 in southern Ontario headed for Michigan. I was armed with a radar on my phone, and saw a line of storms approaching as early as 2:00 pm.

At 2:31 pm, we pulled into a service area to get off the highway to avoid we thought would be a heavy rain threat. A tornado warning was NOT in effect at the time but a severe t-storm warning was.

At 2:36 pm, the rain started. The sky was pitch black.

At 2:41 pm, debris flew around outside. There was no obvious structural damage but many trees and signs blown around. It was rotating like an obvious tornado and it appears a funnel went over the building.

At 2:42 pm, it slowed down but intense rain was still happening. Wind calmed to nothing.

At 2:59 pm, we talked to someone who saw severe damage further up the highway. So it probably just touched down there and continued eastward.

At 3:05 pm, we headed back out after the rain slowed. The damage was very consistent with a tornado, probably EF0 there but at least EF2 farther up.

[Bunkertor]

101 reports

[AdamFirst]

Caught this on an ESPN twitter feed

[Bunkertor]

TN:
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY (WRCB) – Dade County officials say a possible tornado has hit a neighborhood in Trenton.

Officials say there are several people trapped inside collapsed homes behind the First Baptist Church on South Main.

Emergency crews have set up a mass casualty triage at the church.

[Alacane2]

Unconfirmed report from Jefferson County EMA...numerous fatalities in Pleasant Grove.

[Tireman4]

Unfreaking believable. I mean I have never ever seen anything like this. I watched the TWC with Jeff Morrow from Birmingham. That wedge was so large...man oh man. Debris from Tuscaloosa that blew in the air while the storm was 17 miles away. Unfreaking believable. I am praying for all of those folks tonight.

[CrazyC83]

At least 25 dead in Alabama alone according to CNN. Could be the deadliest since the Super Outbreak.

[GCANE]

Insane uncapped STP persists in AL.

This doesn't look to end after sun down.

[GCANE]

Current Mid AL from RUC