2011-04-27 MISC: AL,TN,MS,KY,OH,IN,WV,GA

[Jeff Wright]

Hackleburg aftermath
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47706
Cullman
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abc3340weather/5717013579/

Tuscaloosa event
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47685
More http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47536

 

[Jason Harris]

I don't think anyone posted this video yet--supposedly of Tuscaloosa tornado (and sure looks like it with the horizontal vortices and general shape), but somehow not much damage when it goes over this complex:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrEverduarte

You'll see debris and hear the tornado. Very lucky the glass didn't break and no one hurt.

 

[Darren Addy]

I don't think anyone posted this video yet--supposedly of Tuscaloosa tornado (and sure looks like it with the horizontal vortices and general shape), but somehow not much damage when it goes over this complex:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrEverduarte

You'll see debris and hear the tornado. Very lucky the glass didn't break and no one hurt.

Good lord. When I showed the video (of the guy in his car that had the tornado coming towards him, moved a couple of blocks and shot it as it went behind him), to my brother he said, "I wonder how many of the people who died had video cameras in their hands?". This video makes me realize it was probably more than a few.

 

[MClarkson]

Thats pretty impressive. They got the outskirts while it looks like the core couldnt have been more than a couple hundred yards to their south.

 

[Jeff Snyder]

Note that there has been a late upgrade of one of the tornadoes in the HUN NWSFO to EF5:

[FONT=lucida sans typewriter, lucida console, courier]...ADDITIONAL INFORMATION LEADS TO AN UPGRADE OF DEKALB COUNTY
TORNADO FROM APRIL 27TH TO AN EF-5...

AN ADDITIONAL GROUND SURVEY BASED ON NEW INFORMATION WAS CONDUCTED
ON JUNE 15TH ALONG A NARROW CORRIDOR OF DEKALB COUNTY EAST AND
NORTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN RAINSVILLE. THIS STORM SURVEY WAS UTILIZED
ALONG WITH AERIAL IMAGERY FROM A NOAA OVERFLIGHT ON MAY 4TH,
INTERVIEWS WITH RESIDENCES IN THE AREA, AND ADDITIONAL PRE-EVENT
IMAGERY TO UPDATE THE PREVIOUS RATING FOR THE LONG TRACK TORNADO THAT
IMPACTED DEKALB COUNTY ON APRIL 27TH.
[/FONT]
KHUN PNS (2038 UTC 6/17/11)

 

[brice.coffer]

Almost two months later and the Weather Channel is still spreading false information. Today's fail comes from Jim Cantore on Twitter:

NWS upgraded the Dekalb county, AL of Apr. 27th EF 5. That makes 6 for that outbreak. There were 7 for the SuperOutbreak of '74

No. That now makes 4 EF5s on April 27th (6 for 2011) and the Super Outbreak had 6 F5s.

Also, earlier this week, I heard a reporter on TWC say there were 292 tornadoes on the 27th. Again, no. There are 292 preliminary tornado damage reports on the SPC webpage.

I've given up hope that the facts of this event will ever get correctly reported by the media.

 

[Dave Gallaher]

I've given up hope that the facts of this event will ever get correctly reported by the media.

...or any other event, in my opinion. Accuracy in commercial news is trumped daily by the need for arresting/controversial content, thanks to the free market gutting the standards.

 

[Dave Gallaher]

A conference in Huntsville took place that, among other things, addresses some potential ideas for dealing with the warnings situation stemming from 4/27 experiences:

[URL]http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/06/community_leaders_examine_less.html#incart_hbx[/URL]

 

[rdale]

Great to see Mr Baron participating... Neat conference, except it appears the EM at the end of the article isn't quite aware of why sirens sound. Different weather radios won't fix that.

 

[Jeff Wright]

Updates:
From last year's Guin level event--EF-5
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56698

Last year's Tuscaloosa EF-4 revisited
http://www.bamawx.com/
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56862
http://www.worldweatherpost.com/2011/04/28/stats-on-the-deadliest-tornado-outbreak-in-my-life/



From this years January storms
I was almost killed when an EF-3 tornado passed just to the north of me:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_01232012centerpoint
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_01232012
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/01/updated_clay_damage_totals_170.html

This storm pretty much filled in the gaps of last years events. The April 27 2011 Tus-B'ham event lifted at Ketona--recycled as it were, and spawned another storm across from Deerfoot parkway--missing much of Northeast Jefferson county--this years events filled in the gaps.

The set-up: http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?28572-2012-01-22-FCST-MS-AL-AR-LA-TN-KY
In motion http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?28575-2012-01-22-REPORTS-AR-MO-IL-TN-MS-AL
Little Rock hit first http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56278
Thought we were to just have a squall line http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56290
On screen http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56423
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56441
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56444

Wake up to thunder
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56482
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56533
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56535

Controversy
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56552

A giant strode the earth
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56559

Storm assesment
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56591
Revised
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56602

Storm spotter hit
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56676

Also hit http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56546

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/alabama-tornado-photos-2011-storm_n_854879.html
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weat...hoto-gallery-storm-damage-1232012-ar-3099331/
http://photos.al.com/alcom_photo_essay/2012/01/select_tornado_storm_photos_fr.html
http://birmingham.raycomweather.com/2012/01/radar-image-from-ef3-this-morning.html
http://birmingham.raycomweather.com/2011/04/storm-photos-from-you.html
http://blog.al.com/al/2012/01/submit_your_jan_23_2012_storm.html

http://www.abc3340.com/category/230049/tornado-tragedy

http://www.thepinsonnews.com/v2/content.aspx?ID=43694&MemberID=1588
http://www.thetrussvillenews.com/
http://www.njeffersonnews.com/
http://news.mywebpal.com/index.cfm?pnpid=961

How nice... http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/01/center_point_suspends_use_of_t.html

Coming to a town near me--just
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56771
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_01232012centerpoint
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_01232012

Coverage changes to NWR
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56782
Mans best friend
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=56744

 

[Kevin Bowman]

I checked the thread and didn't see this one posted.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=959_1305657844

 

[rdale]

Interesting delay on the RFD... Nice!

 

[Dave Gallaher]

Please excuse me if this video has already been posted; it offers a good view of the EF-5 wedge and meso structure as it crosses Sand Mountain near the cities of Rainsville and Henagar, AL around 4:47pm It was taken from the western edge of Lookout Mountain in the town of Mentone, AL. Views of this distance are unusual in such mountainous terrain:

http://youtu.be/KvYlFivAVx8

[url]http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/hun/stormsurveys/2011-04-27/Suheiley_tracks/dekalbef5/dekalb_lakeview_cartersville.png

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[calvinkaskey]

Alabama number of tornadoes

There were like 62 tornadoes in Alabama that day. The most I know on any one day in a state is 50 in Arkansas on the 17th of January in 1999.

 

[Mike Benefield]

we had a 17.3 when the Tuscaloosa Tornado hit...unreal!

I think it actually hit 17.8 a short time after that.