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This time the tornado emergency is first. I wasn’t able to get the very beginning when the radio says tornado emergency for the warned area… because I didn’t know it was a tornado emergency, but I did get the ending of the word area in the very start. Because of the that, I have picture proof of the actual product that is read in the beginning with the tornado emergency to prove it is one. Product from Little Rock, Arkansas NOAA weather radio. Issued 4-25-11. From major severe weather outbreak on April 25, 2011. The same cold front caused the major tornado in Tuscaloosa, AL which was 1.5 miles wide at the widest point crossing I-65 and was at least an EF-4 on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale. Sources: www.alabamawx.com and forecast.weather.gov with the following information: TORNADO 8…PRELIMINARY TUSCALOOSA/BIRMINGHAM TORNADO TRACK… PRELIMINARY DATA… EVENT DATE: APRIL 27, 2011 EVENT TYPE: AT LEAST EF-4 ESTIMATED PEAK WINDS (MPH): AT LEAST 165 INJURIES/FATALITIES: AT LEAST 65 FATALITIES. OVER 1000 INJURIES. EVENT START LOCATION AND TIME: 33.0297/-87.935 AT 443 PM EVENT END LOCATION AND TIME: 33.6311/-86.7436 AT 614 PM DAMAGE PATH LENGTH (IN MILES): APPROXIMATELY 80.3 MILES DAMAGE WIDTH: 1.5 MILES CROSSING I-65 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE BEGUN SURVEYING THE MASSIVE DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LONG TRACK TORNADO…BY GROUND AND AIR. THE START POINT IS BASED ON AERIAL SURVEY…WHILE THE END LOCATION WAS DETERMINED BY A GROUND CREW. THUS FAR …
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