Heavy Rain From the Central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic; Heat Wave Begins This Weekend

Strong to severe thunderstorms and heavy rain will impact portions of the central Plains into the Upper Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic through the weekend. A stretch of unusually hot and humid weather is expected across portions of the central U.S. and the Southeast beginning this weekend and continuing through next week. The heat may reach dangerous levels, particularly mid to late next week. Read More >

Below are a table of some final statistics about the tornadoes that occurred both in the Huntsville forecast area (CWA) and the entire state of Alabama.

EF-Rating	Total Tornado Count in Huntsville CWA	Direct Fatalities in Huntsville CWA	Direct Injuries in Huntsville CWA	Total Tornado Count in Alabama	** Direct Fatalities in Alabama	** Direct Injuries in Alabama
EF-5	3	79	At least 45	3	104	At least 245
EF-4	4	19	At least 48	8	125	At least 1716
EF-3	0	0	0	7	7	At least 95
EF-2	6	1	0	9	1	30
EF-1	21	1	1	29	1	5
EF-0	5	0	0	6	0	1
Total	39	100	At least 94	62	** 238	At least 2092**

** These numbers reflect direct deaths and injuries from only tornadoes.

Huntsville CWA: Some interesting Facts/Statistics about the April 27th, 2011 tornado outbreak
1 - Produced 4 EF4 and 3 EF5 tornadoes. This is one more F4 tornado than the 1974 Tornado Outbreak
2 - This event produced more tornadoes (39), but also included two more rounds of tornadoes than the 1974 Tornado Outbreak. Nine tornadoes occurred in the 1974 Tornado Outbreak (including 3 F5's, 3 F4's)
3 - The majority (77%) of the tornadoes were EF0 to EF2 and occurred with the morning and midday waves of tornadoes.
4 - The last wave was the most intense and accounted for all of the violent tornadoes which affected the Huntsville CWA.
5 - In all three waves of tornadoes, this event had more strong (EF2 and EF3) to violent (EF4 and EF5) tornadoes (12) across the Huntsville CWA than the 1974 Tornado Outbreak (9).

County	# of Times a Tornado Hit a County in the HUN CWA (04/27/2011)
Lauderdale, AL	2
Colbert, AL	0
Franklin, AL	2
Lawrence, AL	1
Limestone, AL	7
Madison, AL	6
Morgan, AL	3
Cullman, AL	5
Marshall, AL	15
Dekalb, AL	7
Jackson, AL	4
Franklin, TN	1
Moore, TN	2
Lincoln, TN	2