Damage surveys for weekend tornadoes released by NWS
National Weather Service offices in the Mid South have been very busy over the past several days, conducting damage surveys after the tornado outbreak this past weekend. Of course, the big story has been the long-track wedge that ravaged Mississippi. Taken from the
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/?n=2010_04_24_main_tor_madison_parish_oktibbeha">NWS office in Jackson[/url]
The preliminary conclusion, based on the ground surveys, is that a single, continuous path of tornadic damage was produced from west of Tallulah, Louisiana to the extreme western part of Oktibbeha county in northeast Mississippi." This tornado was given a rating of EF-4, with a maximum width of 1.75 miles. It was on the ground for an astounding 149 miles, one of the all-time longest ever recorded.
Another less-publicized but extremely damaging tornado occurred in northeast Alabama. TVN live streamer Dennis Sherrod lives about an hour away from the path of the tornado that inflicted heavy damage on the community of Albertville. He was there Sunday and got these photos. The National Weather Service in Huntsville has rated this tornado as EF-3, with a path length of almost 19 miles, and a maximum width of 1/2 mile. A little further south and east, another tornado inflicted EF-4 damage along a path that stretched from the towns of Mount Vernon to Dogtown. These tornadoes were especially dangerous given that they occurred well after dark, but thankfully there were no known fatalities. The photos were provided by Dennis, and illustrate some of the horrendous damage these communities are faced with.
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