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The United States had its most unusual weather week of the year to date, with a massive, slow-moving storm system spawning dozens of killer tornadoes, generating widespread flooding and even whipping up hurricane force winds amid blinding dust in the Great Plains
Here are just some of the statistics from this storm system:
In Mississippi, the storm spawned at least 14 tornadoes on April 28, including one EF-4 tornado that damaged the city of Louisville in Winston County. At least 10 tornado-related fatalities occurred in Mississippi.
In Arkansas, an EF-4 tornado with winds approaching 200 mph touched down on April 27, remaining on the ground for 42 miles, causing heavy damage to the small towns of Mayflower and Vilonia.
Along the Alabama and Florida Gulf Coast, including the city of Pensacola, Fla., a staggering 15 to 25 inches of rain fell in just 24 hours, including an hourly rainfall rate of nearly six inches per hour. The National Weather Service said such rainfall rates made this a 1-in-200 to 1-in-500 year rainfall event, meaning there is between a 0.2 to 0.5% likelihood of such a deluge occurring in any given year. These rainfall totals were higher than records set during landfalling hurricanes. Read more...
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