What Happened In Alabama On April 27 2011

Birmingham al wbrc one of the most devastating tornado outbreaks in alabama s history left an unprecedented path of destruction through our state on april 27 2011.
What happened in alabama on april 27 2011. On april 27 alone the national weather service in huntsville alabama issued 92 tornado warnings 31 severe thunderstorm warnings and seven flash flood warnings. Scientists attribute at least part of the 2011 super outbreak s notoriety to chance. Of those 219 tornadoes 59 touched down in alabama and 79 hit the ground in tennessee accounting for well over half of the tornadoes that touched down on april 27. Sixty two tornadoes made their way through alabama on that spring day.
The 2011 tuscaloosa birmingham tornado was an ef4 multiple vortex tornado that destroyed portions of tuscaloosa and birmingham alabama as well as smaller communities and rural areas between the two cities during the late afternoon and early evening of wednesday april 27 2011 it is one of the costliest tornadoes on record it was one of the 360 tornadoes in the 2011 super outbreak the. It seemed that way. Was north alabama forgotten in the days after tornadoes raked alabama on april 27 2011. As part of a system which wreaked havoc across the eastern half of the united states april 25 28 the following is an account of the tornado outbreak of april 27th 2011 in central alabama.
April 27 2011 likely remains the deadliest day for tornadoes in the last 75 years. And the event as a whole killed more people than any outbreak since 1936 when 454 individuals died. Event summary for central alabama.