*Over 100 miles.

This tornado, like the Cullman-Arab tornado, pretty much brought the wall cloud to near the ground. This was due to the very low LCL heights and the sheer amount of moisture available.

this tornado also was like the fairdale tornado 4 years later

This was bigger than the one in Twister.

This straight up looks apocalyptic, just saying.

coc0s no..that was not the wall cloud you ,that was the tornado.

losoyaknoso yep

coc0s nah the wall cloud itself was on the ground just like in Birmingham. It was that powerful to the point it pulled the wall cloud down too

Be it a "wall cloud" or "tornado" no matter WHAT you call it, it's potentially DEATH headed towards you! GET TO THE BASEMENT/STORM SHELTER!!!

@@chrisrobinson3494 Amen to that brother! Heck, if I saw THAT coming at me, I'd go so far underground I'd be in China.

It’s probably the actual tornado, a mini vortex was coming out of the side.

This was an actual EF5. I’d freeze in pure terror and end up having a fatal heart attack (I’m not even joking in the slightest) if I ever see a tornado that scary coming at me. The Joplin MO tornado for example id notice it and just rush to shelter and hunker down. This one is just to terrifying looking Edit: it’s an ef4

It was a large 2 mile wide vortex tornado

I lived in Cordova through both of them me and my daughter made it through the grace of god!

Do you know where this was recorded?

That is correct. Same with me. I didn't watch the weather and know what was about to transpire that day. I barely escaped with my life from this tornado in Cordova (Argo) area. No power from a bad storm in the early morning with 100 mph winds. No weather radio, Nothing. It was close to the Apocalypse that I think I'll ever witness.

DVGaming was this the Birmingham/Tuscaloosa one?

@@itzkgt2919 Yes. It was

Hoyt Princess wow so this tornado was a absolute beast the. For the fact that it stayed as a ef4-ef5 for an hour and a half

@@itzkgt2919 Here you go. National Weather Service meteorologists have surveyed and rated the Cordova tornado track. It has been determined that the damage surveyed was consistent with a violent tornado of overall EF-4 Intensity. The tornado track began about 3 miles northeast of Pickensville in Pickens County, and continued northeast along Double Branches Road, near County Road 49. Just northeast of Reform, the tornado destroyed a few chicken houses and tossed grain feed bins up to 100 yards (EF-1). The tornado caused roof damage to houses and destroyed a few outbuildings as it crossed Alabama Highway 159 north of County Road 49. The tornado then moved into Tuscaloosa County. It crossed Alabama Highway 171 just south of County Road 76, with significant tree damage (EF-2) in a narrow path. The tornado clipped a small part of south central Fayette County along County Road 12 just west of U.S. Highway 43, with tree damage and minor structural damage (EF-1). The Tornado then moved back into Tuscaloosa County, crossing U.S. Highway 43 just north of County Road 12, with only a narrow path width of (EF-0 to EF-1) tree damage. The tornado continued east-northeastward across north central Tuscaloosa County causing mostly minor tree and structural damage before crossing into Fayette County along Old Jasper Road. The tornado strengthened as it approached the Boley Springs area. It crossed County Road 83 north of old Jasper Road where it caused considerable damage to trees and completely destroyed at least one mobile home (EF-3). The frame separated and the remaining debris was thrown a considerable distance which resulted in at least two fatalities. The tornado appeared to strengthen even further as it reached Willcut Road and County Road 46. In this area several mobile homes were completely destroyed with debris thrown a considerable distance and frames twisted and thrown. Many trees were downed with at least two fatalities in this area (at least EF-3). The tornado continued east-northeastward and weakened. It caused mostly minor damage to trees and mobile homes (EF-1) and crossed into Walker County near Bethel Road. The tornado moved across Alabama State Highway 69 several miles south of Oakman where numerous trees were snapped and uprooted, a cell phone tower was knocked down, and mobile homes were destroyed (EF-2). Southeast of Oakman, the tornado crossed Earnest Chapel Road where it rolled vehicles and completely destroyed a cinder block house. It swept away most of the debris (EF-3). At this location there was one known fatality and two known injuries. The tornado continued east-northeast where it crossed County Road 35 and Alabama Highway 269 a few miles south of Parrish. The tornado weakened considerably as it approached Corridor X/future Interstate 22, with only minor tree damage (EF-0) noted, before it strengthened significantly as it entered the Cordova Area. A 1/2 mile wide swath of EF-3 damage was noted in downtown Cordova. From there, the tornado tracked to the northeast across Burton Chapel Loop Road and crossed the Mulberry fork of the Black Warrior River. As it crossed Mountainview Road, the tornado increased and was rated a violent EF-4 here, as it destroyed 2 single-wide mobile homes, as well as a single family home. One of the mobile home undercarriages was missing, having been tossed at least 500 yards. At this site, a small bulldozer was flipped over, a pickup truck was tossed 200 yards and an International 4700 dump truck was tossed 50 yards being destroyed upon landing. A 2 ton utility trailer from this location was found a mile away, with a 2.5 foot impact crater where it landed. As the tornado neared Old Highway 78, it tossed two double-wide mobile homes at least 100 yards where it became airborne with the frames on top of the debris. The tornado continued tracking toward Sipsey, where an unanchored double-wide mobile home was tossed 100 feet up a 50 foot embankment. The tornado continued at a minimum of EF-2 strength to the east, then intensified as it came off a bluff where it destroyed a home. Numerous homes and manufactured homes were either damaged or destroyed along this path. The tornado continued northeast into Cullman County. WFO BMX survey teams noted a continuous path from Cullman County into Blount County where the tornado passed near Sulpher Springs northeast of Bangor and into the town of Blountsville. In Blountsville, the storm went across Highway 431 damaging multiple well built brick and slab foundation homes on Maple Drive, one of which had the exterior walls collapse which left the interior walls standing. Damage was indicative of 130 mph winds which is consistent with high-end EF-2 damage. As the storm continued to the northeast out of Blountsville, two additional homes were found along the path that sustained heavy high end EF-3 damage with winds of 160 mph. A large portion of the home was wiped off of its foundation leaving only the garage in place with minor roof damage. The debris from the home was tossed across the path of the tornado 10 to 15 yards away from where it originally stood. This home was not a slab foundation home, rather it had a cinder block perimeter foundation. The tornado then continued into Marshall County (see info from WFO HUN). The tornado was also on the ground in Cullman and Marshall Counties. Therefore, the total tornado damage path length was 127.80 miles long. All the injuries and fatalities occurred in Central Alabama. The tornado was 1408 yards wide at its widest point in Tuscaloosa County. The tornado was rated an EF-4 in Walker County. Tornado Warnings were in effect along the entire path of this storm. In the Cordova area, a Tornado Warning was in effect from 400 pm until 500 pm.

@@itzkgt2919 The intensity differs through the path of the tornado. The tornado is rated by the level of damage it causes in each city.

Man. That’s rough, at the point this happened, my mother had gone to her best friends house and brought me (I was very young) and she hid in her basement. They said they could see the tornado through the window. I don’t remember any of it since I was young but it must have been insane

A lot of the days wedges just became so large it looked like the entire mesocyclone was on the ground, specifically on the low precipitation supercells

@@KaiserStormTracking Exactly & not to mention 250,000 homes were without power from the morning outbreak. Yeah I was only 3 when the 74 outbreak happened. I'm a weather nerd & it was still terrifying considering our whole county was without power & cell service. So no way to get warnings if you didn't have a weather or portable radio with batteries & they were all gone by early afternoon.

What’s the predawn outbreak?

@@commondirtbagz7130 We had a massive bow echo early that morning. I lived in Jasper Alabama & we had wind gusts up to 125 mph in downtown Jasper. It did major structural damage. Not to mention an ef3 tornado a few miles away. It also did major damage statewide & killed 4 people plus knocked out power to 250,000 statewide. So a lot of people didn't get warnings for the afternoon super outbreak.

I lived in Argo when this tornado hit. It killed 3-4 people at the Piggly Wiggly and another 2 just outside Argo.

If we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it.

Scariest part is there will be many more

Yes, you are right. Unfortunately, I was in its path that day.

The sirens are intense. I like how different cities have different sirens. These are pretty scary sounding. Not your typical silent Hill ones

I like the part where they stopped filming like 10 minutes before they should have

mostly 2001s are heard in this video. My city is filled with them I'm sure James Spann would not want to be in a spot with sirens

@@dghcpumpernickeldeluxe7391 spuee moira

@@GR-bn3xj Don't be dissing Thunderbolts around me.

yeah apparently theres native american tales that call those tendrils "the dead man walking", and that it was a sign of an especially deadly twister

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Tristate probably was matched in strength by only half a dozen tornadoes since, like Phil-Hackleburg and Joplin. Even so, Tristate was perfect because it was a low cloud base, heavy rain and hail wrapped, and looked like a dark fog rolling over the ground. It killed weather-savvy farmers and city slickers alike! But Tuscaloosa's was still a very powerful tornado. Twisters in Dixie Alley usually have a low cloud base, and with the abundance of trees, that makes them dangerously hard to see.

@@d.dementedengineerc99isurf26 And Delhi La in 1971

@@gigachad1942 Was that part of the Feb. 21st 1971 swarm of twisters from Louisiana to Arkansas and from Tennessee to Mississippi? Some dozen tornadoes killed 121 on that day.

@@d.dementedengineerc99isurf26 Yes

An absolute tragedy. The Delhi F5 probably looked like this tornado.

This Hass to be one of the most scariest tornadoes I’ve ever seen it’s not the strongest of that day, but still very visually incredible

Yea it looks like it could be a EF6 😳

the EF scale goes by damage, the F scale went by wind speed, size doesn't mean much, there have been absolutely massive mile+ wide EF1 and EF2 tornadoes

you forgot: .5. Shakes camera

I think I'd have a more primeval primate response: scream, pee and flee.

Maybe that's why every april 27th tornado was so insanely powerful and destructive

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Same

I haven't seen a wall cloud that low on video since I looked at some El Reno Tornado footage last week!

It would have been years ago. Okie city HATES to give Southern tornadoes EF5 ratings. There were probably as many as 6 to 8 EF5s that day if they had been in the midwest. Okie is battling to keep hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars of grant money for tornado research in their own little money box by down-playing Dixie Alley Tornadoes. Huntsville, Alabama is fighting to get some of that due to the fact that more than 1,400 more deaths have occurred in the South's Dixie Alley (3,104) since 1950 than traditional tornado alley (1,657). Always... ALWAYS follow the MONEY.

Ken Perk yeah they’re constantly EF5 tornadoes in Dixie alley the end up getting rated EF4 let me name off a few Tuscaloosa-Birmingham mayflower-vilonia Louisville (Mississippi) The list could go on and on

@@kenperk9854 Someone who pays attention- how refreshing! Based on what I can find the trend is for the more severe storms to be in "Dixie alley" now and they're predicting that will increase as all the WX patterns in general are tending to move eastward. The big problem with research is that here in Dixie the forests restrict vision and the trees flying around make damage aftermath estimates tougher to get right. Norman/Moore is always going to be the 'winner' regards funding simply because everything is established there already, but in time more will be learned here in Dixie simply because of the frequency and intensity of these monsters happening here. Yes follow the money, but also keep an eye out for politics, power, and prestige too because they can be equally strong driving factors.

Usually the homes down their are very frail and poorly constructed an ef2 can destroy homes down there with ease

Where you in a well built home during both?

No I had a basement in my house!

Both were apart of the same outbreak

It's actually three things: 1. Wall cloud 2.Tornado 3. DEATH headed towards you!!

Rainsville was also an EF5.

that might be el reno

El Reno might have been ugly shape wise but it was spectacular color-wise, at different times being green, teal, blue, reddish, and almost black with patches of aqua. Cordova was just flat gray, plus the condensation funnel actually trailed a bit behind the wall cloud which gave it that ugly twisted and wrapped look which you can see at 0:40.

Peter K It could have been capable of producing EF5 damage. There was some pretty severe ground scouring in Tuscaloosa County and a trailer weighing two tons was tossed a full mile in Walker County. That being said, a number of tornadoes from this outbreak and in general might have briefly reached EF5 intensity over unpopulated areas. Also, you can't really see the tornado in the video, just the wall-cloud mostly. In terms of appearance, the Cordova tornado looked like the other violent tornadoes from this outbreak for the most part.

Yes, the LCL levels were so low that the meso & wall cloud nearly extended to the ground, so most of the actual tornado is behind the trees. (This also emphasizes the point that if a tornado warning is issued, do not wait until you see the tornado for yourself before taking shelter. Depending on the trees & buildings in your area, you may not be able to visually confirm a tornado until it's too late). And I agree - many of the tornadoes that wreaked havoc from April 26 to the 28 may have peaked in intensity before or after hitting a populated area. But that is just a guess, not a fact. Each tornado, including the one in this video would have received a higher damage rating if there had been evidence to justify a higher rating. But there was no such evidence.

You haven't seen the HACKLEBURG PHIL CAMBELL EF5 then, or The 2013 El Reno 2.5 miles wide.

They are both definitely massive!

I don't believe Elreno was a part of this.

Your seeing the wall cloud mainly the tornado is under that

:)

This outbreak triggered a truckload of Sifi movies in Hollyweird, Each more silly than the last!