Nightmare: The tornadoes that have devastated the South of the U. Crushing: A car is crushed by an uprooted tree in Tuscalosa, Alabama, where residents are reeling from the worst US tornadoes in nearly 80 years.
Nothing left: A man looks through the remains of a home in Pleasant Grove, Alabama. Since the tornado struck on Wednesday, the death toll has slowly crept up each day with latest estimates putting it at at least With six states affected the numbers will almost certainly go even higher, especially as search and rescue teams are still checking homes and cars for bodies.
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox said late on Saturday that people were unaccounted for, down from On Sunday the second storm stretched from Texas up to Arkansas and the northern part of Mississippi and was expected to move East over the next two days.
By Monday it would be over Birmingham in Alabama and the surrounding area, which has been the worst affected by the disaster. Charlie Smits, who lost his home in Tuscaloosa, said: 'This is the last thing we need. We're being kicked while we are down. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO.
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Because it's one thing to see the tornadoes, but it's another to see the destruction that they leave. Names are collected from media reports across the state, and by reporters at The Birmingham News and The Huntsville Times.
Forecasters knew up to five days before that the weather was going to be extremely dangerous on April There was a rare high risk of severe weather that day. Schools, businesses and churches shut down. The forecast was good.
The warnings were good. What happened? Why did so many die on April 27, ? Was there something they could have done? That's a question that still haunts many today. And one that the weather community has been working to solve.
Several months after the April 27 outbreak, those in the weather enterprise got together to begin the search for answers. In that group were weather service personnel from across the South, emergency managers, broadcast meteorologists -- and social scientists. One of those was Dr. She was at Mississippi State University in and was brought into the circle by Jim Stefkovich, who was the meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service in Birmingham at the time.
The idea was to use social science research to answer those questions and find out what worked -- and what didn't. Did the message get out there? And what did people do with it once they got it?
A historic day. One of the first things to consider was the sheer number of storms. Alabama was hit by 62 tornadoes on April 27, according to the weather service. An average year -- year -- for Alabama has about 65 using data from Radar and tornado tracks from April 27, Image from NASA.
Early on the message appeared to be well-received, Myers said. So the public was well-aware. That's why businesses were closed, schools were closed," she said. But something went wrong early on April There was not one wave of storms, but two. The first round, which included several strong tornadoes, began just after 4 a. People were left in the dark, in more ways than one. The morning round of storms was potent enough on its own, Laws said.
I remember we were hammering out the message as much as we could. Then came the afternoon, and with it a rash of powerful and destructive tornadoes. According to the weather service, of the 62 tornadoes that touched down in Alabama on April 27 eight were EF4s and three were EF5s, the most powerful on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. An EF5 tornado has estimated winds of more than mph and causes "incredible" damage.
A tornado that strong may not even be survivable in some cases. Carolyn Ann Jackson, 50, Tuscaloosa Jacqueline Jefferson, 45, Tuscaloosa Thelma May Bennett Krallman, 89, Tuscaloosa Tennie Mozelle Lancaster, 95, Tuscaloosa Davis Lynn Gordo Lathem, 57, Tuscaloosa Velma T.
LeRoy, 64, Tuscaloosa Dorothy Lewis, 61, Tuscaloosa Thomas D. Lewis, 66, Tuscaloosa Yvonne Mayes, 30s, Tuscaloosa Christian A. McNeil, 15 months, Tuscaloosa Zyqueria McShan, 2, Tuscaloosa Perry Blake Peek, 24, Tuscaloosa Lola Pitts, 85, Tuscaloosa Terrilyn Plump, 37, Tuscaloosa Kevin Rice, 36, Tuscaloosa Annie Lois Humphries Sayer, 88, Tuscaloosa Judy Darlene Rheams Sherrill, 62, Brookwood Marcus J.
Smith, age 21, Tuscaloosa William Chance Stevens, 22, Tuscaloosa Justin Leeric Thomas, 15, Tuscaloosa Patricia Hodo Turner, 55, Tuscaloosa Skip to content. Watch Live. Homicide Maps. What The Tech. On Your Side Investigations.
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