[WeatherOp]

I would think the news of this has reached round the world. Words cannot describe what happened in the south on April 27. As of right now around 350 are dead with many still un-accounted for. We have has one confirmed EF5, with several more likely to be confirmed over the next week. The worst was a clear EF5 that hit Tuscaloosa and then the northern suburbs of Birmingham, then tracked possibly across the whole state and into GA and NC while still producing EF4-EF5 damage.  The US hasn't seen an outbreak close to this caliber since The SuperOutbreak in '74.

I'll post some picture and videos later. If you believe in God please pray, if you do not send good thoughts our way. The death toll is over 200 in Alabama alone.

Around Birmingham.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8SLdLOAM2c

[Bobboau]

we got hit with a few of those recently, it has been a very active season.

[Mongoose]

It was nightmarish watching that whole situation play out on the NWS site.  Just unbelievable.

[Klaustrophobia]

i only got a lot of strong wind and rain in VA, but raleigh got a few rolling through, where i was a few months ago. 

[WeatherOp]

Second confirmed EF5 in Hackleburg, AL.

[Unknown Target]

As I posted in a different forum;

Does anyone else notice when Americans are made to feel bad by the media after people die in a hurricane in some "third world country" die, but when people die here there's no huge hubbub almost at all? You don't see a "Help for Alabama" sticker on the top of Yahoo News or Facebook or Youtube. Why is that?

[WeatherOp]

The damage in Alabama is unreal. While my area of extreme East Alabama escaped damage,and for that I am truly thankful. Right now we have four more tornadoes that I know of that may reach EF5: Tuscaloosa, Limestone county, DeKalb county and Ringold, GA.

What amazes me is that the major tornadoes hit metro areas. Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Ohatchie, Ringold, Cordova, Smithville,  Cullman(hit by three different tornadoes, Piedmont. All hit by EF4+ tornadoes. Just unreal.

[WeatherOp]

Looks like things are finally just about added up. The tornado count will be over 200 for the single day of April 27 which puts it over The Superoutbreak by a good margin. We had 3 EF5(Hackleburg, Smithville, Philadelphia) and a handful of EF4s. The Tuscaloosa tornado was rated the highest EF4 could go, and still has the possibility of becoming an EF5.

That puts this outbreak under the Superoutbreak in terms of EF5's.(3 against 6)  However, if this were still under the Fujita Scale and not the Enhanced Fujita Scale, we would have had more. Dekalb county, Ringgold, Tuscaloosa, Ohatchee would have been just about been assured F5 status. That would leave this outbreak with seven F5s instead of three, and would beat out the Superoutbreak.

On terms of single tornadoes. The Philadelphia, MS EF5 tore the ground up to a depth of two feet and looked as if a tractor plowed it. The Hackleburg/Phil Campbell tornado was likely the most powerful tornado to touch down in the past 30+ years and was easily on the level of legendary F5's such as Guin/Smithfield/Xenia tornadoes. The tornado could have possibly even surpassed them. This event, just as the Superoutbreak before it, will be studied for years to come.

The Hackleburg/Phil Cambell tornado.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcst_GGOqfM

[WeatherOp]

Insane how dumb you can be and live through a EF4-EF5 tornado....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wObIlvNHI94

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sZJBxHiCRs&

[watsisname]

Part of me is actually glad that there are such profoundly stupid people in the world.  Without them we wouldn't have nearly as much insanely close tornado footage.

*Sound intensifies*
"Which way is it moving, that way?
*Sound intensifies even more and the wind picks up, debris fills the air just past the neighboring houses*
(with no concern whatsoever) "No, I think it's moving this way."

Hurrdurrhurrr