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Originally posted by IROC
The disconcerting thing to me is that they are all clustered around north Alabama (where I am). :>(
Mike
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Yeah, it looked like you want to steer clear of Birmingham, as the maps I looked at showed that it was hit twice.
Last year we still lived in Harper Kansas, we had on a single night, 8 tornadoes touch down in the county, all within a couple of miles from home.
http://stormgasm.com/storm%20store/videos/2004may12.htm
Watch the 'sample video'. At the 1:20 mark on the video, that particular tornado was maybe 1/4-3/8's of a mile south of where we were. We actually had roof damage, and tree damage at the house.
Roughly 1.5 week later we had this:
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0504/150171.html
Roughly 16 tornadoes touch down from that series of storms, and probably 6 or so in Harper county again.
One of those actually ran the same path as the video'd tornado above. The first tornado did damage to the school and destroyed several houses, the second tornado didn't really have anything left to eat.
More info on the May 12 'Outbreak'.
http://www.tornadochaser.net/harper.html
The map is a little deceiving, as it doesn't have a mile ledger on it. Harper and Anthony are only 7miles apart.
It was a fun month none-the-less..