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News Headlines. Customize Your Weather. Privacy Policy. Enhanced Fujita Scale Weather. Current Hazards. Rivers and Lakes. Climate and Past Weather. Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. A suburb of Birmingham, Pleasant Grove was bisected by a horrific gash of devastation that scraped neighborhood after neighborhood from the map.

Tuscaloosa County was now left behind for Jefferson, and with it, a new metro area; Birmingham. The tornado may have finally exited the Tuscaloosa metro area for good, but it was not even close to finished. Still at peak size and strength, it weaved through rural Alabamian forest causing complete devastation to anything in its path.

This is the fifth in a series of summaries documenting the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado of April 27, Leaving behind a gash through the City of Tuscaloosa proper, the growing tornado now set its sights on the outskirt community of Holt.

This is the fourth in a series of summaries documenting the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado of April 27, The devastating tornado continued its trek through the heart of Tuscaloosa. A number of both larger outbreaks including multiple violent tornadoes and individual violent tornado events have impacted South Carolina and North Carolina. Once a killer tornado always a killer tornado. If in the future we press into deeper detail we will deconstruct this data.

Experts like Chuck Doswell and Harold Brooks are the authoritative individuals on subjects such as these. Some methods such as grouping into states rather than regions within or between states may simplify matters a bit, but overall it appears any findings which are similar here and with noted experts are more or less consistent.

The high-end ratings are easier to determine when structures are impacted. Graphs can be selected for larger versions. Official data will be available during spring Get updates about U. Tornadoes on Twitter and Facebook. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.

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