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A decade ago on Wednesday morning, Virginians near Interstate 81 in Washington County were waking to frightening scenes that seemed otherworldly for our region, and to knowledge that people had lost their lives to swirling winds at Glade Spring. On another day, it might have made national headlines, but amid the 2011 Super Outbreak of April 25-28, it was just a footnote in the largest recent chapter of American tornado history. The 2011 Super Outbreak spawned 360 tornadoes, killing 324 people over four days from Texas to New York and the Gulf Coast to southern Canada, with more than 200 tornadoes and deaths on April 27 alone. Alabama was hardest hit, with 238 deaths as tornadoes gouged parallel tracks across that state like giant claw marks. Harrowing live images of a large tornado chewing up Tuscaloosa are a lasting memory from that day for many. ....
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