PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1022 PM CDT MON APR 11 2011
...BIGGEST APRIL TORNADO OUTBREAK IN WISCONSIN HISTORY...
APRIL 10 2011 WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE BIGGER TORNADO OUTBREAKS IN
WISCONSIN HISTORY. IT IS TIED FOR THE BIGGEST TORNADO OUTBREAK IN
TERMS OF NUMBERS OF TORNADOES IN ONE DAY IN THE MONTH OF APRIL
(APRIL 27 1984-WALES F4 IN WAUKESHA COUNTY)
SO FAR...AT LEAST 10 TORNADOES HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED AS THREE NWS
OFFICES ARE COMPLETING STORM SURVEYS.
HERE ARE THE TORNADO TOTALS SO FAR:
NWS GREEN BAY AREA: 7*
NWS LA CROSSE AREA: 2
NWS TWIN CITIES AREA: 2
THE TOTAL SO FAR IS 10* TORNADOES. ONE OF THE TORNADOES CROSSED
FROM ADAMS INTO WAUSHARA COUNTY...WHICH CROSSES FROM NWS LA CROSSE
TO GREEN BAY (THUS ONLY 10 TORNADOES...NOT 11 AS THE MATH ABOVE
WOULD SUGGEST).
ACCORDING TO NWS GREEN BAY...THIS NUMBER OF 7 TIES FOR THE BIGGEST
TORNADO OUTBREAK EVER IN NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL WISCONSIN...THEIR
AREA OF WARNING RESPONSIBILITY. ADDITIONAL SURVEYS AND INVESTIGATION
COULD LEAD TO ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTED TORNADOES IN THE COMING DAYS.
UPDATE: NWS says 12th tornado near Necedah breaks April record
Posted: Apr 11, 2011 11:05 PM
Updated: Apr 15, 2011 2:58 AM
LA CROSSE, Wis. -- The National Weather Service has identified another tornado from Sunday's violent storm outbreak, which breaks the single-day record for April.
The weather service says teams did an additional storm survey and found an EFO to EF1 tornado touched down southwest of Necedah at the intersection of Paradise Lane and 25th Street West.
The tornado had winds in excess of 95 miles per hour and was on the ground for about four and a half miles, damaging a mobile home and trees before it ended near the Wisconsin River. Click here to read more.
National Weather Service officials says this tornado was just behind the EF2 tornado that touched down in Adams County. That tornado had a top speed of 125 mph and did more than $3.5 million in damage.
12 tornados touched down in Wisconsin Sunday, breaking the record of 11 set April 27, 1984. The 1984 tornado outbreak left three people dead and 42 others injured.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION /PDS/ TORNADO WATCHES 232/235
CONTINUE UNTIL 00Z/03Z RESPECTIVELY. THIS INCLUDES THE POTENTIAL FOR
LONG-TRACK STRONG/PERHAPS VIOLENT TORNADOES INTO THIS EVENING AS A
SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK ONLY INCREASES IN MAGNITUDE/RISK.
AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS/LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION CONTINUES TO
UNFOLD THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS A LARGE PART OF MS/AL...WITH ADJACENT
PORTIONS OF TN/NORTHWEST GA ALSO EXPECTED TO BECOME A CONCERN LATE
THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL TRENDS...REASONABLY
SUPPORTED BY EXPERIMENTAL HRRR GUIDANCE...IMPLY THAT SCATTERED
SUPERCELLS WILL CONTINUE TO FORM IN BROKEN NNE-SSW ORIENTED
CORRIDORS OF SUBTLE CONFLUENCE AHEAD /EAST/ OF MORE
STORMS/SUPERCELLS THAT ARE DEVELOPING ALONG A PRE-COLD FRONTAL
TROUGH/DRYLINE GENERALLY NEARING I-55 IN MS.
THE WARM SECTOR AIRMASS HAS AGGRESSIVELY DESTABILIZED THIS AFTERNOON
AMID NEAR 70F/LOWER 70S F SURFACE DEWPOINTS...REFERENCE SPECIAL 18Z
OBSERVED RAOBS FROM JACKSON MS/BIRMINGHAM AL...WITH A WIDE/HIGHLY
SHEARED MOIST SECTOR IN PLACE ALONG/SOUTH OF A MODIFYING WEST-EAST
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY /NOW AN EFFECTIVE WARM FRONT/ ACROSS FAR NORTHERN
PORTIONS OF AL/MS. EXTREME LOW LEVEL SHEAR...VIA LONG/CURVING LOW
LEVEL HODOGRAPHS...WILL REMAIN HIGHLY CONDUCIVE FOR SUPERCELLS
CAPABLE OF LONG-TRACK STRONG/VIOLENT TORNADOES INTO THIS EVENING
AMID 0-1 KM SRH OF 300-500 M2/S2 OR GREATER /ESPECIALLY NEAR THE
AFOREMENTIONED NORTHERN MS AND AL BOUNDARY/.
Dozens Killed In Southern Storms; Alabama Battered
by NPR STAFF AND WIRES
April 27, 2011
A wave of tornado-spawning storms strafed the South on Wednesday, splintering buildings across hard-hit Alabama and killing 72 people in four states.
At least 58 people died in Alabama alone, including 15 or more when a massive tornado devastated Tuscaloosa. The city's mayor said sections of the city that's home to the University of Alabama have been destroyed and the city's infrastructure is devastated.
Eleven deaths were reported in Mississippi, two in Georgia and one in Tennessee.
News footage showed paramedics lifting a child out of a flattened Tuscaloosa home, with many neighboring buildings in the city of more than 83,000 also reduced to rubble. A hospital there said its emergency room had admitted at least 100 people.
"What we faced today was massive damage on a scale we have not seen in Tuscaloosa in quite some time," Mayor Walter Maddox told reporters, adding that he expected his city's death toll to rise.
NPR's Russell Lewis, who was in the town of Pleasant Grove, Ala., told Melissa Block that he could see debris on the road.
"The devastation here is really immense from what I've seen: houses just flattened," he said.
The storm system spread destruction Tuesday night and Wednesday from Texas to Georgia, and it was forecast to hit the Carolinas next and then move further northeast.
Around Tuscaloosa, traffic was snarled Wednesday night by downed trees and power lines, and some drivers abandoned their cars in medians. University officials said there didn't appear to be significant damage on campus, and it was using its student recreation center as a shelter.
Maddox said authorities were having trouble communicating, and 1,400 National Guard soldiers were being deployed around the state.
Brian Sanders, the manager of an oil change shop, brought his daughters to DCH Regional Medical Center because he felt they'd be safe there. He said his business had been leveled.
"I can't believe we walked away," he said.
NPR's Lewis said it may not be until Thursday morning that officials get a clear idea of how bad the damage was.
Storms struck Birmingham earlier in the day, felling numerous trees that impeded emergency responders and those trying to leave hard-hit areas. Surrounding Jefferson County reported 11 deaths by late Wednesday; another hard-hit area was Walker County with eight deaths. The rest of the deaths were scattered around the state, emergency officials said.
Austin Ransdell and a friend had to hike out of their neighborhood south of Birmingham after the house where he was living was crushed by four trees. No one was hurt.
As he walked away from the wreckage, trees and power lines crisscrossed residential streets, and police cars and utility trucks blocked a main highway.
"The house was destroyed. We couldn't stay in it. Water pipes broke; it was flooding the basement," he said. "We had people coming in telling us another storm was coming in about four or five hours, so we just packed up."
Not far away, Craig Branch was stunned by the damage.
"Every street to get into our general subdivision was blocked off. Power lines are down; trees are all over the road. I've never seen anything like that before," he said.