April 27, 2011 tornadoes, moment-by-moment: How it happened
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Even a decade later, it seems hard to believe.
The tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011 cemented itself in the consciousness of every Alabamian who experienced it. Two waves of deadly storms battered the state over the course of one day, leaving broken cities, twisted wreckage and lost lives.
Looking at the statistics gives only the barest idea of what occurred. The deadly weather system was part of a three-day outbreak that was the worst of its kind in U.S. history. Alabama saw 62 tornadoes. Twenty-nine of them left storm tracks covering more than 690 miles.