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Yeah I would venture to say that at least 85-90% of people north of I-20 didn't have power after 7 or 8 that night. Mine went out right after the TCL-BHM tornado went through Fultondale.I was noticing the same thing when I was entering the data. Pretty dramatic drop especially from N Alabama.
Yeah I would venture to say that at least 85-90% of people north of I-20 didn't have power after 7 or 8 that night. Mine went out right after the TCL-BHM tornado went through Fultondale.
Considering that several violent tornadoes (e.g. Hackleburg) tracked through areas without NOAA weather radio and power, it's almost certain some did. No way to prove it though.I would like to know if there were any deaths caused that afternoon that can be directly tied to the power going out during the morning storms. That is, did anyone not get the warnings, that normally would have if the power were on, and die as a result of that?
I guess there is no way to know that, but it would be interesting to know.
Well, yeah, that and send the aforementioned Hackleoosa tornado right thru the Birmingham metro and another through Huntsville metro (both came pretty close in reality honestly) but the infrastructure damage and storm speed were more of a perfect storm than the actual storms.
I mean, in the evening round, we got light sprinkles twice and that was it; had the Hubbertville EF3 been one of the long trackers it would've probably hit us. Coulda certainly been worse from an individual track viewpoint.
That book made me truly weep. I had to get out of bed and go into the bathroom to keep from waking my husband. Gut wrenching.Yeah. The live thread is surreal. It brings back tons of emotions. I'm reading What Stands in a Storm today also, so it's making it even more emotionally charged.
Or put the Enterprise/Rose Hill, MS tornado through the Jackson metro. Interestingly enough it was second only to the Hackleburg tornado in the fatality to injury ratio (about 41%, which is much higher than average even for a violent tornado). Seven lives lost was seven too many, but it was darn lucky that the tornado was over very rural areas for almost all of its path.As bad as it was it could have been sooooo much worse. For instance swap the Tuscaloosa and Hackleburg tornadoes. As hard as we were hit the tornadoes did not hit the main metro areas.
And while we're on the subject of "what-ifs", consider this:
I seem to recall, on the old board's thread for the event on April 15, 2011, that one of the last posts (probably the last post) was about how that event could have been much worse had the morning round of storms not rained themselves out over much of northern Alabama. That post was made before 4/27/11.
That had me thinking: What if the morning storms on 4/15 had behaved more like those on 4/27 (i.e. not doing much to defuse the afternoon event, and in some ways even making things worse)? Would we be discussing the fact that we had two generational events within as many weeks of each other?
Very true, we really don't know how common "super outbreaks" really are. I hope I never have to see a true 1 in 500 year outbreak... Given the devastation a 1 in 30-50 year outbreak has, it could certainly redefine the phrase super outbreak. No doubt in the past there's been some absolutely mind-boggling events that have occurred before humans had the means of recording them, and before people were even on this continent.Well, that's a thought...even as it was 4/15 would obviously be considered a very major event in any other year, but the idea of two "Super Outbreaks" in two weeks is chilling.
I think it was Max from Extreme Planet who first talked about this, but "Super Outbreaks" might be much more common than a lot of us tend to think. 4/3/74 was called a "once in 500 year event" by many, many respected meteorologists including Fujita and Grazulis. Then 4/27/11 happened, and then when you consider the 3/21/32 Dixie Alley outbreak, which was almost certainly much bigger than official records say (since there were no confirmed F0 or F1 tornadoes). I also find it doubtful that of the 10+ violent tornadoes on that day there were none of F5 strength, especially considering how the damage from three of them was probably borderline F5.
Considering that reliable tornado records only go back to the 50's, these "Super Outbreaks" could be once in 30-40 year events...which means that for many of us, there could be another one in our lifetimes.
Well, that's a thought...even as it was 4/15 would obviously be considered a very major event in any other year, but the idea of two "Super Outbreaks" in two weeks is chilling.
I think it was Max from Extreme Planet who first talked about this, but "Super Outbreaks" might be much more common than a lot of us tend to think. 4/3/74 was called a "once in 500 year event" by many, many respected meteorologists including Fujita and Grazulis. Then 4/27/11 happened, and then when you consider the 3/21/32 Dixie Alley outbreak, which was almost certainly much bigger than official records say (since there were no confirmed F0 or F1 tornadoes). I also find it doubtful that of the 10+ violent tornadoes on that day there were none of F5 strength, especially considering how the damage from three of them was probably borderline F5.
Considering that reliable tornado records only go back to the 50's, these "Super Outbreaks" could be once in 30-40 year events...which means that for many of us, there could be another one in our lifetimes.