Super Outbreak of 2011

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Structural damage to a house along Lake Martin in Alabama resulting from tornadoes that struck the area on April 27, 2011.

Super Outbreak of 2011

Damage to a house and the surrounding vegetation in Eclectic, Ala., resulting from a tornado that struck the town on April 27, 2011.

Aerial perspective of tornado damage in Tuscaloosa, Ala., following a massive tornado outbreak that struck the eastern United States during April 26–28, 2011.

False-colour image of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and surrounding area after a devastating tornado struck on April 27, 2011. The path of the tornado appears as a straight blue-green swath that tracks southwest to northeast from the city of Tuscaloosa (lower left).

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Super Outbreak of 2011: Media

tornado disaster, United States

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Structural damage to a house along Lake Martin in Alabama resulting from tornadoes that struck the area on April 27, 2011.

Structural damage to a house along Lake Martin in Alabama resulting from tornadoes...

© LakeMartinVoice

Super Outbreak of 2011

Super Outbreak of 2011

Map of the tornado outbreak in the southern, eastern, and central United States on...

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski

Damage to a house and the surrounding vegetation in Eclectic, Ala., resulting from a tornado that struck the town on April 27, 2011.

Damage to a house and the surrounding vegetation in Eclectic, Ala., resulting from...

© LakeMartinVoice

Aerial perspective of tornado damage in Tuscaloosa, Ala., following a massive tornado outbreak that struck the eastern United States during April 26–28, 2011.

Aerial perspective of tornado damage in Tuscaloosa, Ala., following a massive tornado...

NOAA

False-colour image of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and surrounding area after a devastating tornado struck on April 27, 2011. The path of the tornado appears as a straight blue-green swath that tracks southwest to northeast from the city of Tuscaloosa (lower left).

False-colour image of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and surrounding area after a devastating...

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