As I indicated last night, tornadoes have claimed many lives (60+ and counting) last night and this afternoon. Several on The Weather Channel called it "unprecedented", but they clearly don't remember (or weren't alive) during the Super Outbreak of April 3, 1974. That day produced 148 tornadoes that killed 315 people. 23 of those tornadoes were F-4 and 6 were F-5 !!! Fortunately for us, all of the severe storms stayed well to our north.
As the cold front sweeps away the Gulf muggies for several days, bright sunshine along with slightly cooler temperatures will make for a delightful 2-3 days. The muggies will be back over the weekend but no rain until next week.
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"unprecedented" it surely was! Over 300 dead now and growing, record number of tornadoes, ugh yeah they called it correct..
If this event had occured over 40 years ago in the same area the death toll would have been double what it was. Also when 200 plus are killed in one state alone I would say that is "unprecedented". Do you know JP Dice?
Agree with anonymous, Weather Channel nailed the wording pretty well. They now say this may go down on record as the most destructive storm system of Tornadoes in US history. Number of torandoes now has reached over 200 unofficially.
Also pretty unprecedented to have them occur that far south, sure tornadoes occur all the way to the coastline but never as powerful as these did, very rare. Heck one even started in Ms crossed all the way over Alabama and into Georgia!
Boys, let's see what the final NWS survey totals are. Remember the Super outbreak in 1974 had 6 F5s & 23 F4s. Unprecedented to me means...never happened before. Amazing, unbelieveable, incredible are good words to describe this event. When all the final details are in, it may qualify as unprecedented, but to claim that while the event is on-going is premature. Let the numbers speak for themselves gang.
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