Talking economical impact/cost + lives lost...yeah, 4/27 is in its own ballpark.For severe, tornado outbreak of 4/27/11 far outranks all others in terms of impact in that state, even 4/3/74 which itself should also probably make the list.
I'll call your blizzard of 93 and raise you an ice storm of 1985!I humbly submit the 1993 Blizzard aka Storm of the Century.
https://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2016/03/alcom_vintage_-_march_1993_bli.html
I'll call your blizzard of 93 and raise you an ice storm of 1985!
Its the only time in my life where I watched people ice skate down the road in front of my house. My brother and I would dive head first across the yard and see who could break the most wild onion ice spikes.I forget about the Blizzard of 93 because I saw nary a flake. Now that ice storm......craziest thing I ever seen. I remember after a few days my dad and I had to walk up to Country Food Town(you know the place) to get a few things we were running out of.
2010 White Christmas might not make the cut, but deserves honorable mention due to how rare a white Christmas is in Alabama
There are a lot of events that are worthy of being ranked high. Here is my quickly thrown together list:Hi everyone! Been lurking around this forum since 2002 (seriously!).
I was wondering, what would you say are the top 10 Alabama weather events of the past 50 years, and in what order would you rank them in terms of historical significance?
We are coming upon the 25th anniversary of the Palm Sunday Tornado of 1994 that hit Goshen United Methodist Church north of Piedmont during Palm Sunday service. Question, how close did the Shoal Creek, Ohatchee, Piedmont tornado of April 27, 2011 come to hitting Goshen UMC again?