Segundo EF-5 !

          Mais um tornado foi elevado para categoria mais alta da escala Fujita EF-5 no super outbreak desta semana nos Estados Unidos. O tornado que passou pela cidade de Hackleburg, condado de Marion, Alabama foi classificado com EF-3 preliminarmente, mas revendo dados e fotos,o NWS (national weather service) subiu para categoria mais alta EF-5. Abaixo reporte do National Weather Service.

PRELIMINARY DATA…
EVENT DATE: APRIL 27, 2011
EVENT TYPE: EF-5 TORNADO
ESTIMATED PEAK WINDS (MPH): 200
INJURIES/FATALITIES: AT LEAST 25 FATALITIES. NUMEROUS INJURIES.
EVENT START LOCATION AND TIME: 34.0880/-88.1328 AT 305 PM
EVENT END LOCATION AND TIME: 34.3109/-87.7858 AT 328 PM
DAMAGE PATH LENGTH (IN MILES): 25.2 MILES IN MARION COUNTY
DAMAGE WIDTH: 3/4 MILE
NOTE: CONTINUED INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SURVEYED DAMAGE ACROSS MARION COUNTY IMPACTING THE HACKLEBURG AREA. IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE DAMAGE WAS CONSISTENT WITH A VIOLENT TORNADO. WINDS WERE ESTIMATEDUP TO 200 MPH. THE TORNADO APPEARED TO TOUCHDOWN SOUTHWEST OF HAMILTON NEAR HIGHWAY 19 AND COUNTY ROAD 22. TREE DAMAGE WAS NOTED IN THIS AREA. THE TORNADO WIDENED CONSIDERABLY AND BECAME DEADLY AS IT MOVED ALONG HIGHWAY 43 SOUTHWEST OF HACKLEBURG. THE TORNADO MOVED INTO HACKLEBURG WHERE SEVERAL SUBDIVISIONS WERE DESTROYED. THE HACKLEBURG HIGH SCHOOL AND THE WRANGLER PLANT WERE DESTROYED. THE TORNADO MOVED NORTHEAST AND GENERALLY PARALLELED HIGHWAY 43 AND MOVED TOWARD PHIL CAMPBELL WHERE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE CONTINUED. ALONG THE DAMAGE PATH, THOUSANDS OF TREES WERE DOWNED…SEVERAL HUNDRED
STRUCTURES WERE DAMAGED, AT LEAST 100 OF THESE STRUCTURES WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED AS MANY HOMES WERE LEVELED.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS…ALONG WITH THE FOREMOST EXPERT IN STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENT REVIEWED THE DAMAGE IN HACKLEBURG IN MARION COUNTY. THE MAIN INDICATORS OF HACKLEBURG HAVING EF-5
DAMAGE IS THE TOSSING OF VEHICLES UPWARDS OF 150-200 YARDS…ONE WELL BUILT HOME WITH 4 SIDES BRICK WAS COMPLETELY LEVELED AND THE DEBRIS FROM THE HOME WAS TOSSED TO THE NORTH OVER 40 YARDS…AND
THERE WAS LARGE AMOUNTS OF WIND ROWING…THE STREWING OF BUILDING MATERIALS IN STRAIGHT LINES…AROUND THE CITY OF HACKLEBURG.

        Este reporte diz que o tornado de Hackleburg foi de categoria EF-5, com vento máximo estimado em 340km\h, com o diâmetro dos danos de 7km, e este tornado percorreu uma distância de 43km, continuando no valley do Tennesse. Como continua em outro condado, abaixo segue o reporte para Tennesse deste mesmo tornado.

UBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1056 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2011

…UPDATED PRELIMINARY STORM SURVEY INFORMATION
…FRANKLIN AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES…

A PRELIMINARY STORM SURVEY OF THE DAMAGE INCURRED ACROSS FRANKLIN AL AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES HAS BEEN COMPLETED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALONG WITH FRANKLIN AND LAWRENCE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL.

UPDATED FINDINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
* EVENT TYPE: TORNADO
* EVENT DATE: 04/27/11
* ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 175 MPH
* PRELIMINARY RATING: EF-4
* PATH LENGTH: AT LEAST 39 MILES
* MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH: 3/4 MILE
* FATALITIES: 41
* INJURIES: STILL YET TO BE DETERMINED

THURSDAY SUMMARY: FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS SURVEY, THE PATH BEGAN AT THE SOUTHERN
FRANKLIN COUNTY LINE WITH MARION COUNTY NEAR HACKLEBURG. FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE TORNADO PATH IN MARION COUNTY…CONSULT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM. (which preceded this statement up above.)

THE SURVEY TEAM TRAVELED THROUGH PHIL CAMPBELL AND WITNESSED CONTINUOUS SIGNIFICANT DEVASTATION THROUGHOUT THE CITY. THE MOST PROLIFIC DAMAGE OCCURRED FROM THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 51 AND
ALABAMA HIGHWAY 237…TO THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 81 AND COUNTY ROAD 75. WITHIN THIS CORRIDOR, SEVERAL WELL CONSTRUCTED HOUSES WERE DESTROYED. AT LEAST 3 CHURCHES ALONG THE PATH SUSTAINED
SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. ONE CHURCH IN PHIL CAMPBELL WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED WITH ONLY THE SLAB REMAINING. MULTIPLE MOBILE HOMES THROUGHOUT THE PATH WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED…AND THEIR MANGLED FRAMES WERE TOSSED AT LEAST 25 TO 50 YARDS. CARS WERE TOSSED AND DESTROYED THROUGHOUT THE PATH OF THE TORNADO…WITH ONE CAR WRAPPED AROUND A DEBARKED TREE IN PHIL CAMPBELL. ALL ALONG THE PATH LENGTH…THOUSANDS OF HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD TREES WERE SNAPPED. HUNDREDS OF TREES WERE ALSO DEBARKED AND TWISTED…AND HAD ONLY STUBS OF LARGEST BRANCHES REMAINING. EF-4 DAMAGE CONTINUED SIMILARLY NORTHEAST FROM PHIL CAMPBELL…ROUGHLY ALONG COUNTY ROADS 81 AND 82. SEVERAL HIGH VOLTAGE TVA POWER LINE TRUSSES WERE TWISTED AND TOPPLED…PARTICULARLY NEAR HIGHWAY 243. SIX CHICKEN HOUSES WERE
COMPLETELY DESTROYED NEAR THE FRANKLIN LAWRENCE COUNTY LINE.

FRIDAY SUMMARY…

        O reporte diz que o tornado perdeu força e baixou para EF-4, com ventos de 260km\h percorrendo mais 66.3km, somando os reportes, este tornado que inicialmente era EF-5 percorreu uma distância total de 109km.