re: Alabama tornado discussion and links

thats great if they did. i always love stories like that when they find someone that is ok

wow

If any of you ranters live near these guys, do us all a favor and shoot them.

These assholes drove 700 miles to steal from people who lost everything.

Worst people in the world

I hope their mugs are posted all over their hometown papers.

They deserve the hardest punishment they can get under the law.



The Pleasant Grover looting suspects are, from top left, Anthony Haislip and Christopher Elmore, from bottom left, Christopher Ramsey and Jon Berube. (Special/Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.)

just enlisted OT help.

fwiw if you put the first guys name in google one of the side ads can find his address and all kinds of stuff

im see how much it cost

very sad

UA Students Memorial Page

National Weather Service Official Storm Surveys

Lengthy but worth reading if you are into the technical details...

LINK

Some highlights...Incredible...

TORNADO 6...HACKLEBURG TORNADO (MARION COUNTY)

PRELIMINARY DATA...
EVENT DATE: APRIL 27, 2011
EVENT TYPE: EF-5 TORNADO
ESTIMATED PEAK WINDS (MPH): GREATER THAN 200
INJURIES/FATALITIES: NUMEROUS INJURIES/AT LEAST 25 FATALITIES.
EVENT START LOCATION AND TIME: 34.0880/-88.1328 AT 305 PM
EVENT END LOCATION AND TIME: 34.3109/-87.7858 AT 328 PM
DAMAGE PATH LENGTH (IN MILES): 25.2 MILES IN MARION COUNTY
DAMAGE WIDTH: 3/4 MILE
NOTE: CONTINUED INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SURVEYED DAMAGE ACROSS MARION
COUNTY IMPACTING THE HACKLEBURG AREA. IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE
DAMAGE WAS CONSISTENT WITH A VIOLENT TORNADO. WINDS WERE ESTIMATED
GREATER THAN 200 MPH. THE TORNADO APPEARED TO TOUCHDOWN SOUTHWEST
OF HAMILTON NEAR HIGHWAY 19 AND COUNTY ROAD 22. TREE DAMAGE WAS
NOTED IN THIS AREA. THE TORNADO WIDENED CONSIDERABLY AND BECAME
DEADLY AS IT MOVED ALONG HIGHWAY 43 SOUTHWEST OF HACKLEBURG. THE
TORNADO MOVED INTO HACKLEBURG WHERE SEVERAL SUBDIVISIONS WERE
DESTROYED. THE HACKLEBURG HIGH SCHOOL AND THE WRANGLER PLANT WERE
DESTROYED. THE TORNADO MOVED NORTHEAST AND GENERALLY PARALLELED
HIGHWAY 43 AND MOVED TOWARD PHIL CAMPBELL WHERE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE
CONTINUED. ALONG THE DAMAGE PATH, THOUSANDS OF TREES WERE
DOWNED...SEVERAL HUNDRED STRUCTURES WERE DAMAGED, AT LEAST 100 OF
THESE STRUCTURES WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED AS MANY HOMES WERE
LEVELED.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS...ALONG WITH THE FOREMOST
EXPERT IN STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENT REVIEWED THE DAMAGE IN HACKLEBURG
IN MARION COUNTY. THE MAIN INDICATORS OF HACKLEBURG HAVING EF-5
DAMAGE IS THE TOSSING OF VEHICLES UPWARDS OF 150-200 YARDS...ONE
WELL BUILT HOME WITH 4 SIDES BRICK WAS COMPLETELY LEVELED AND THE
DEBRIS FROM THE HOME WAS TOSSED TO THE NORTH OVER 40 YARDS...AND
THERE WAS LARGE AMOUNTS OF WIND ROWING...THE STREWING OF BUILDING
MATERIALS IN STRAIGHT LINES...AROUND THE CITY OF HACKLEBURG.

TORNADO 9...TUSCALOOSA/BIRMINGHAM (GREENE/TUSCALOOSA/JEFFERSON
COUNTIES)

PRELIMINARY DATA...
EVENT DATE: APRIL 27, 2011
EVENT TYPE: EF-4
ESTIMATED PEAK WINDS (MPH): UP TO 190
INJURIES/FATALITIES: OVER 1000 INJURIES/AT LEAST 65 FATALITIES.
EVENT START LOCATION AND TIME: 33.0297/-87.935 AT 443 PM
EVENT END LOCATION AND TIME: 33.6311/-86.7436 AT 614 PM
DAMAGE PATH LENGTH (IN MILES): APPROXIMATELY 80.3 MILES
DAMAGE WIDTH: 1.5 MILES CROSSING I-65.
NOTE: MORE DETAILS ON THIS SURVEY TO COME.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE SURVEYED THE MASSIVE
DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LONG TRACK VIOLENT TORNADO...BY GROUND
AND AIR. THE START POINT IS BASED ON AERIAL SURVEY...WHILE THE END
LOCATION WAS DETERMINED BY A GROUND CREW. DETAILED DAMAGE INSPECTION
HAS REVEALED A MAXIMUM OF EF-4 DAMAGE FROM EAST OF HOLT...NEAR
CONCORD...AND THE PLEASANT GROVE AREAS. CASUALTY INFORMATION IS
BASED ON THE LATEST OFFICIAL RELEASES FROM THE ALABAMA EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT AGENCY. THIS TORNADO WAS PRODUCED BY A SUPERCELL
THUNDERSTORM THAT BEGAN IN NEWTON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AT 254 PM
CDT...FINALLY DISSIPATING IN MACON COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA AT
APPROXIMATELY 1018 PM CDT. SO...THIS SUPERCELL EXISTED FOR ABOUT 7
HOURS AND 24 MINUTES...TRAVELING APPROXIMATELY 380 MILES PRODUCING
SEVERAL STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES ALONG THE WAY.

TORNADO 10...CORDOVA TORNADO (WALKER/BLOUNT COUNTIES)

PRELIMINARY DATA...
EVENT DATE: APRIL 27, 2011
EVENT TYPE: EF-4 TORNADO
ESTIMATED PEAK WINDS (MPH): AROUND 170
INJURIES/FATALITIES: DOZENS OF INJURIES/7 KNOWN FATALITIES.
EVENT START LOCATION AND TIME: TO BE DETERMINED
SURVEY START LOCATION AND TIME: 33.7553/-87.1846 AT 452 PM.
EVENT END LOCATION AND TIME: 34.2342/-86.4339 AT 550 PM
DAMAGE PATH LENGTH (IN MILES): 55.1 MILES SURVEYED SO FAR
DAMAGE WIDTH: 3/4 MILE
NOTE: THIS DATA IS PRELIMINARY. TRACK COULD GO AS FAR BACK AS
PICKENS COUNTY...SMALL PART CROSSES INTO CULLMAN COUNTY (WFO HUN)
AND AFTER BLOUNT INTO MARSHALL COUNTY (WFO HUN).

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE NOW SURVEYED AND RATED
A PORTION OF THE TORNADO TRACK IN WALKER COUNTY AND ALL OF BLOUNT
COUNTY. IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE DAMAGE SURVEYED THUS FAR WAS
CONSISTENT WITH A VIOLENT TORNADO. THE SURVEYED TORNADO TRACK WAS
NOTED FROM DOWNTOWN CORDOVA IN A 1/2 MILE WIDE SWATH OF EF-3 DAMAGE.
FROM THERE...THE TORNADO TRACKED TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS BURTON
CHAPEL LOOP ROAD AND CROSSED THE MULBERRY FORK OF THE BLACK WARRIOR
RIVER. AS IT CROSSED MOUNTAINVIEW ROAD...THE TORNADO INCREASED TO A
VIOLENT EF-4 RATING...AS IT DESTROYED 2 SINGLE-WIDE MOBILE
HOMES...AS WELL AS A SINGLE FAMILY HOME. ONE OF THE UNDERCARRIAGES
IS MISSING...HAVING BEEN TOSSED AT LEAST 500 YARDS. AT THIS SITE...A
SMALL BULLDOZER WAS FLIPPED OVER...A PICKUP TRUCK WAS TOSSED 200
YARDS AND AN INTERNATIONAL 4700 DUMP TRUCK WAS TOSSED 50 YARDS BEING
DESTROYED UPON LANDING. A 2 TON UTILITY TRAILER FROM THIS LOCATION
WAS FOUND A MILE AWAY...WITH A 2.5 FOOT IMPACT CRATER WHERE IT
LANDED. AS THE TORNADO NEARED OLD HIGHWAY 78...IT TOSSED TWO
DOUBLE-WIDE MOBILE HOMES AT LEAST 100 YARDS...BECOMING AIRBORNE WITH
THE FRAMES ON TOP OF THE DEBRIS. THE TORNADO CONTINUED TRACKING
TOWARD SIPSEY...WHERE AND UNANCHORED DOUBLE-WIDE MOBILE HOME WAS
TOSSED 100 FEET UP A 50 FOOT EMBANKMENT. THE TORNADO CONTINUED AT A
MINIMUM OF EF-2 STRENGTH TO THE EAST...THEN INTENSIFIED AS IT CAME
OFF A BLUFF...DESTROYING A HOME. NUMEROUS HOMES AND MANUFACTURED
HOMES WERE EITHER DAMAGED OR DESTROYED ALONG THIS PATH. THE TORNADO
IS BELIEVED TO HAVE CONTINUED NORTHEAST INTO CULLMAN COUNTY...WHERE
NWS HUNTSVILLE FOUND A CONTINUED PATH.

SURVEY TEAMS THEN SURVEYED INTO BLOUNT COUNTY WHERE THE TORNADO
PASSED NEAR SULPHER SPRINGS NORTHEAST OF BANGOR AND INTO THE TOWN OF
BLOUNTSVILLE. IN BLOUNTSVILLE...THE STORM WENT ACROSS HIGHWAY 431
DAMAGING MULTIPLE WELL BUILT BRICK AND SLAB FOUNDATION HOMES ON
MAPLE DRIVE...ONE OF WHICH HAD THE EXTERIOR WALLS COLLAPSED LEAVING
THE INTERIOR WALLS STANDING. DAMAGE WAS INDICATIVE OF 130 MPH WINDS
WHICH IS CONSISTENT WITH HIGH-END EF-2 DAMAGE. AS THE STORM
CONTINUED TO THE NORTHEAST OUT OF BLOUNTSVILLE TWO ADDITIONAL HOMES
WERE FOUND ALONG THE PATH THAT SUSTAINED HEAVY HIGH END EF-3 DAMAGE
WITH WINDS OF 160 MPH. A LARGE PORTION OF THE HOME WAS WIPED OFF OF
ITS FOUNDATION LEAVING ONLY THE GARAGE IN PLACE WITH MINOR ROOF
DAMAGE. THE DEBRIS FROM THE HOME WAS TOSSED ACROSS THE PATH OF THE
TORNADO 10 TO 15 YARDS AWAY FROM WHERE IT ORIGINALLY STOOD. THIS
HOME WAS NOT A SLAB FOUNDATION HOME...RATHER IT HAD A CINDER BLOCK
PERIMETER FOUNDATION.