![]() Tuscaloosa-Birmingham Tornado Summary, Birmingham, AL NWSFO.Tornado Tracks (4/24–), NWS Southern Region HQ.NSSL Rotation Tracks file for April 27 (Continental U.S.The event was one of the deadliest since formal record keeping began in 1950. The deadliest part of the outbreak was on April 27, when a total of 122 tornadoes resulted in 319 deaths. Thankfully, there were no fatalities.ĭuring a 4-day period from April 25-28, 2011, more than 200 tornadoes occurred in a five southeastern states. The worst damage occurred when the tornado hit the Lambert St. Louis metropolitan area bringing large hail, strong winds, and five tornadoes, including one ranked EF4. On April 22, 2011, two supercell thunderstorms crossed the St. Outbreak Summary, Newport/Morehead City, NC NWSFO.NSSL Rotation Tracks file for April 16 (Eastern U.S.Thirty tornadoes were confirmed across the Carolinas and Virginia on Apcausing 26 fatalities and 371 injuries. Below we have listed the most significant outbreaks, along with links and information, and some of NSSL's research products that have been used in assessing the outbreaks. ![]() The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.The tornadoes that occurred during the spring of 2011 were deadly, record-setting, and heart-breaking. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. MORRIS: For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris in Joplin, Missouri.Ĭopyright © 2011 NPR. Even here, electric power comes from mobile generators. ![]() MORRIS: It's not until you clear the eastern edge of town that the wreckage starts to ease. I'm glad we didn't have our graduation here. MORRIS: This mind-bogglingly destructive tornado churned on - destroying house after house after house - on the way to here, the high school, where I'm standing right now. A few more blocks, down a street resembling a war zone, two men work with a pick and shovel, digging a grave for a dog. It took everything I could do to hold him on the ground. And where my son is standing - he's in the green shirt there, the red hair - that is the stairwell. MONTAGNE: This was the cast door, cast entrance. MORRIS: Tiffany Story is still clearly shaken as she points through a basement door hanging ajar. And you look outside and just - everything's gone. And then, standing on the sixth floor, I was trying to help a lady out of some debris. And then all of a sudden, the windows blew outwards and then the tornado picked it back up and it went back inside. MONTAGNE: All the windows started shaking, and it was just - you couldn't see past the windows there was so much debris. John's Regional Health Center, one of two big hospitals here, where Brandon McCoy was at work in an office. MORRIS: The tornado cleared this hill and tore into St. How can one thing do so much damage to one little town? MORRIS: Michel Story stands in a pile of debris that was her grandmother's home, gazing at desolation stretching to the horizon. And on this hill - looks like maybe the highest point in Joplin - you can see most of the seven- mile path of complete destruction this tornado made. MORRIS: Walking along here, you get to the top of the hill. I looked out their basement window and saw there wasn't a house there. MONTAGNE: It didn't last more than - I don't know, it felt like a lot longer than it probably was. MORRIS: Kyle Carder rode out the storm with neighbors. MONTAGNE: We could see clouds swirling around, and that's when we ran down into their basement. It was already going full force, about two-thirds of a mile wide, with winds approaching 200 miles an hour. This is where the tornado plowed into town. ![]() Frank Morris, of member station KCUR, retraced that path yesterday and brings us this report.įRANK MORRIS: I'm walking along the western edge of Joplin. MONTAGNE: The Joplin tornado drove straight through the city - from west to east - on Sunday evening, creating a wide path of near-total destruction. At least 122 people were killed there, and hundreds remain unaccounted for. LOUISE KELLY: Now, all this comes as the town of Joplin, in Missouri, is still digging out after suffering the country's deadliest tornado in decades. MONTAGNE: We'll have more coverage of those storms elsewhere in the program. It tore apart vehicles on Interstate 40, and cut a devastating path through the city of El Reno. The most powerful twister broke out west of Oklahoma City. More deadly tornadoes carved through the Midwest yesterday, killing at least 13 people in Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas.
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