Looking Back at the April 11th Tornado Event of 2013… Friday AM Update – 9am

One year ago today, Alabama was dealing with it’s last big severe weather event. Several tornadoes tracked across west Alabama, and one in east central Alabama. Above is a map that shows the tornado tracks and strengths across Alabama. Here’s a post from the National Weather Service in Birmingham on that event…

A line of showers and thunderstorm moved through central Alabama during the afternoon and evening hours on April 11. During the early afternoon hours, several discrete supercells moved into central Alabama ahead of the line of storms and produced several areas of damage in west central Alabama. Once the line of storms moved into the area, several segments of the line isolated pockets of damaging winds and downed trees. By late afternoon and early evening several segments along the line of storms began to rotate in a more unstable air mass across southeastern sections of central Alabama. Additional damage occurred along the line as it moved slowly eastward.

Below is a picture of a killer tornado that tracked across east Mississippi and into Pickens County in Alabama. The tornado was an EF-3 in east Mississippi, then weakened to an EF-1 as it moved into northwest Pickens County.

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