The April 6–9, 1998 tornado outbreak was a large tornado outbreak that started on April 6 across the Great Plains and ended on April 9 across the Carolinas and Georgia. A total of 62 tornadoes touched down from the Middle Atlantic States to the Midwestern United States and Texas. The outbreak is infamous for producing a deadly F5 that tore through the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, killing 32 people. The Birmingham tornado was one of only two F5 tornadoes that year. The other hit in Lawrence County, Tennessee on April 16, as part of the same outbreak as the 1998 Nashville tornadoes. This tornado outbreak was responsible for 41 deaths: 7 in Georgia and 34 in Alabama.
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Birmingham area F5 tornado
Shortly after 7:30 P.M. on April 8th, the deadliest tornado of the outbreak touched down in extreme eastern Tuscaloosa County and cut a 31-mile long (49km), 3/4-mile wide swath through multiple Birmingham suburbs, producing damage ranging from F3 to F5 and causing massive destruction before lifting in the western limits of the City of Birmingham, just northwest of the junctions of Interstates 20, 59 and 65. The worst of the destruction occurred across the Oak Grove, Rock Creek and McDonald Chapel areas. The second area affected by F5 damage was also devastated by a violent tornado in 1956 that tracked through the same areas hit by this storm. Debris from the tornado was scattered across central Alabama as far north as sections of Blount County, and extensive deforestation occurred along the majority of the path.
January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
The 2011 Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado was a large and violent EF4multiple-vortex tornado that devastated portions of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama, as well as smaller communities and rural areas between the two cities, during the late afternoon and early evening of Wednesday, April 27, 2011. It is one of the costliest tornadoes on record. It was one of the 363 tornadoes in the 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history. The tornado reached a maximum path width of 1.5mi (2.4km) during its track through Tuscaloosa, and once again when it crossed Interstate 65 north of Birmingham, and reached estimated maximum sustained winds of 190mph (310km/h) shortly after passing through the city. It then went on to impact parts of Birmingham as a high-end EF4 before dissipating. This was the third tornado to strike the city of Tuscaloosa in the past decade, and the second in two weeks.
The Birmingham tornado was one of the strongest tornadoes recorded in the United Kingdom in nearly 30years, occurring on 28 July 2005 in the suburbs of Birmingham. It formed on a day when strong tornadoes were expected to develop across the Midlands and eastern England. The tornado struck at approximately 2.30pm BST in the Sparkbrook area of the city, also affecting King's Heath, Moseley and Balsall Heath as it carved a kilometre-long path through the city. Its main effects were felt in the Ladypool Road which bore the brunt of the damage. Ladypool Primary School was extensively damaged and lost its distinctive Martin & Chamberlain tower. The adjacent St Agatha's Church also suffered some damage. Christ Church (consecrated 1867), on the corner of Dolobran Road and Grantham Road in Sparkbrook was also damaged and has now been demolished.
The Met Office and TORRO (The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation) has estimated that the tornado had a general T4 rating on the TORRO scale with a short spell as a T5 tornado, which would mean wind speeds between 93 and 130mph, equivalent to an F2 on the Fujita scale.
Birmingham (Live with Orchestra & Choir) is a 2013 live album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, featuring the Orchestra of the Swan and their Chamber Choir Orchestra Conductor Andrew Powell, who was the man who did the string arrangements on the original studio albums. The album, a Comeuppance production, was released by Absolute via Universal. A DVD version of the performance was also released at the same time.
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The album was recorded and filmed live at the Birmingham Symphony Hall, England on 24 November 2012. The band, with the orchestra and chamber choir, made up about 50 performers together, and performed the band's first two albums The Human Menagerie and The Psychomodo in their entirety - with some of the songs entirely new to the stage. The sold-out show was a one off performance of the two albums, and also included Spandau Ballet's Steve Norman on saxophone and percussion. Aside from the two albums performed, the band also played three additional tracks on the night; "Judy Teen" (the band's UK Top 5 hit single from 1974), "Stranger Comes to Town" (the title track from Harley's 2010 album) and "Black or White" (from the 1976 album Timeless Flight. Harley commented "It's been a long time coming - something like 39 years. Now we're here, at last, with an orchestra and a choir and a big rock band, to play those first two albums pretty well the way they appeared on the original vinyl. Maybe some things should never change, in spite of progress. Welcome, my old friends."
Birmingham was founded in 1871, during the post-Civil WarReconstruction period, through the merger of three pre-existing farm towns, notably, former Elyton. It grew from there, annexing many more of its smaller neighbors, into an industrial and railroad transportation center with a focus on mining, the iron and steel industry, and railroading. Birmingham was named for Birmingham, England, UK; one of that nation's major industrial cities. Most of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry. In one writer's view, the city was planned as a place where cheap, non-unionized, and African-American labor from rural Alabama could be employed in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces, giving it a competitive advantage over industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast.
Stephen Quinn looks back at the F5 tornado that tore through the western suburbs of Birmingham on April 8, 1998, killing 32 people. It changed weather coverage in this market forever.
published: 08 Apr 2023
Reoccurring Nightmares - The 1998 Birmingham F5 Tornado
Today we look at one of many violent tornadoes to hit Birmingham, Alabama prior to April 27, 2011.
Sources and further reading:
◉https://www.weather.gov/media/bmx/significant_events/1998/04_08/april8_ams_paper.pdf
◉https://hazards.colorado.edu/uploads/basicpage/QR%20145.pdf
◉https://www.weather.gov/bmx/event_04081998
◉https://www.weather.gov/media/publications/assessments/setornad4-98.pdf
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Reoccurring Nightmares - The 1998 Birmingham F5 Tornado
published: 23 Nov 2022
Oak Grove community marks 25 years since April 8, 1998 tornado
Oak Grove community marks 25 years since April 8, 1998 tornado
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Weather History: The 1998 Birmingham Tornado
On April 8, 1998, The Birmingham Tornado struck the western part of Jefferson County, Alabama. It was one of only two F5's in 1998.
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F5 Tornado - April 8, 1998 - Birmingham, AL
ABC 33/40's look at the horrible F5 tornado that killed 32 people in Birmingham on April 8, 1998. Produced and edited by Bill Castle.
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An Unforgettable Nightmare - The 1998 Birmingham F5 Tornado: A Retrospective And Analysis
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April 8, 1998, people across Northern Alabama were going to school, work, or waiting for Wednesday night services to begin across churchs in the state. However, meteorologists at television studios and National Weather Service Offices were paying close attention to the sky, as the potential for severe weather during the evening and night was clear as day. Everyone knew that SOMETHING could happen, but come 8pm CDT, an unforgettable hell tore through Tuscaloosa and Jefferson Counties in Alabama. An F5 tornado, the st...
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April 8, 1998: Twisted Fury
This is the ABC 33/40 special on the 20th anniversary of the April 8, 1998 F5 tornado that killed 32 people in Jefferson County.
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Oak Grove High School remembers devastating April 1998 tornado
Oak Grove High School remembers devastating April 1998 tornado
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On This Day: Remembering the EF-5 tornado that devastated western Jefferson County in 1998
On This Day: Remembering the EF-5 tornado that devastated western Jefferson County in 1998
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USA: CLINTON PROMISES FEDERAL AID FOR TORNADO HIT ALABAMA
(15 Apr 1998) Natural Sound
U-S President Bill Clinton promised 3.2 (m) million dollars of federal aid to help repair tornado-ravaged central Alabama during a visit on Wednesday.
He offered the victims encouragement as he toured some of the areas hit during last weeks disaster and promised to set up temporary jobs to help the clean-up operation.
Winds in excess of 420 kilometres per hour (260 miles-per-hour) caused the damage and killed 33 people, most living in predominantly black suburbs on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama.
U-S President Bill Clinton surveyed the devastation caused by last Wednesday's tornadoes in Alabama.
Where people's homes once stood, all that remained was rubble.
Clinton slowly picked his way through heaps of twisted metal and piles of sh...
Stephen Quinn looks back at the F5 tornado that tore through the western suburbs of Birmingham on April 8, 1998, killing 32 people. It changed weather coverage ...
Stephen Quinn looks back at the F5 tornado that tore through the western suburbs of Birmingham on April 8, 1998, killing 32 people. It changed weather coverage in this market forever.
Stephen Quinn looks back at the F5 tornado that tore through the western suburbs of Birmingham on April 8, 1998, killing 32 people. It changed weather coverage in this market forever.
Today we look at one of many violent tornadoes to hit Birmingham, Alabama prior to April 27, 2011.
Sources and further reading:
◉https://www.weather.gov/media...
Today we look at one of many violent tornadoes to hit Birmingham, Alabama prior to April 27, 2011.
Sources and further reading:
◉https://www.weather.gov/media/bmx/significant_events/1998/04_08/april8_ams_paper.pdf
◉https://hazards.colorado.edu/uploads/basicpage/QR%20145.pdf
◉https://www.weather.gov/bmx/event_04081998
◉https://www.weather.gov/media/publications/assessments/setornad4-98.pdf
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Reoccurring Nightmares - The 1998 Birmingham F5 Tornado
Today we look at one of many violent tornadoes to hit Birmingham, Alabama prior to April 27, 2011.
Sources and further reading:
◉https://www.weather.gov/media/bmx/significant_events/1998/04_08/april8_ams_paper.pdf
◉https://hazards.colorado.edu/uploads/basicpage/QR%20145.pdf
◉https://www.weather.gov/bmx/event_04081998
◉https://www.weather.gov/media/publications/assessments/setornad4-98.pdf
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Reoccurring Nightmares - The 1998 Birmingham F5 Tornado
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April 8, 1998, people across Northern Alabama were going to school, work, or waiting for Wednesday night services to begin across churchs in the state. However, meteorologists at television studios and National Weather Service Offices were paying close attention to the sky, as the potential for severe weather during the evening and night was clear as day. Everyone knew that SOMETHING could happen, but come 8pm CDT, an unforgettable hell tore through Tuscaloosa and Jefferson Counties in Alabama. An F5 tornado, the strongest type of tornado, tore through the communities of Oak Grove, Rock Creek, Edgewater, and McDonald Chapel with no mercy. The tornado killed 32 people, with the supercell responsible for the tornado continuing to produce multiple tornadoes throughout it's lifespan. The tornado is often overlooked now due to the 2011 Superoutbreak, where 2 EF5 tornadoes occurred in Alabama on the SAME DAY, in an outbreak where over 200 people died in Alabama alone, but the 1998 Oak Grove/Birmingham F5 Tornado, referred to by some as the "Twisted Fury," deserves a look back due to the damage it caused and the legacy it has as one of 8 EF/F5 tornadoes in the state of Alabama. So join me as I take a look back at this tornado, nearly 25 years later.
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April 8, 1998, people across Northern Alabama were going to school, work, or waiting for Wednesday night services to begin across churchs in the state. However, meteorologists at television studios and National Weather Service Offices were paying close attention to the sky, as the potential for severe weather during the evening and night was clear as day. Everyone knew that SOMETHING could happen, but come 8pm CDT, an unforgettable hell tore through Tuscaloosa and Jefferson Counties in Alabama. An F5 tornado, the strongest type of tornado, tore through the communities of Oak Grove, Rock Creek, Edgewater, and McDonald Chapel with no mercy. The tornado killed 32 people, with the supercell responsible for the tornado continuing to produce multiple tornadoes throughout it's lifespan. The tornado is often overlooked now due to the 2011 Superoutbreak, where 2 EF5 tornadoes occurred in Alabama on the SAME DAY, in an outbreak where over 200 people died in Alabama alone, but the 1998 Oak Grove/Birmingham F5 Tornado, referred to by some as the "Twisted Fury," deserves a look back due to the damage it caused and the legacy it has as one of 8 EF/F5 tornadoes in the state of Alabama. So join me as I take a look back at this tornado, nearly 25 years later.
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Oak Grove High School remembers devastating April 1998 tornado
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On This Day: Remembering the EF-5 tornado that devastated western Jefferson County in 1998
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On This Day: Remembering the EF-5 tornado that devastated western Jefferson County in 1998
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On This Day: Remembering the EF-5 tornado that devastated western Jefferson County in 1998
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(15 Apr 1998) Natural Sound
U-S President Bill Clinton promised 3.2 (m) million dollars of federal aid to help repair tornado-ravaged central Alabama durin...
(15 Apr 1998) Natural Sound
U-S President Bill Clinton promised 3.2 (m) million dollars of federal aid to help repair tornado-ravaged central Alabama during a visit on Wednesday.
He offered the victims encouragement as he toured some of the areas hit during last weeks disaster and promised to set up temporary jobs to help the clean-up operation.
Winds in excess of 420 kilometres per hour (260 miles-per-hour) caused the damage and killed 33 people, most living in predominantly black suburbs on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama.
U-S President Bill Clinton surveyed the devastation caused by last Wednesday's tornadoes in Alabama.
Where people's homes once stood, all that remained was rubble.
Clinton slowly picked his way through heaps of twisted metal and piles of shattered boards tossed aside by the ferocious winds.
He brought words of comfort to the victims, as well as the promise of immediate relief.
Clinton said the U-S government would provide 3.2 (m) million dollars in emergency aid and crisis counselling for victims.
The emergency funds will be used to create temporary jobs to clean up Jefferson, Saint Clair and Tuscaloosa counties which were worst hit by the tornadoes.
Clinton also said the National Council of Churches had pledged to help rebuild or repair all the churches hit by the tornadoes.
In Pratt City, a predominantly black suburb of Birmingham, Clinton met with about 40 local residents who told him about the ferocity of the tornado and their efforts to recover.
Neighbours held aloft a sign thanking the president for visiting them.
Some aid has already reached the area and is being distributed through victim relief centres, like this one which the President visited during on Wednesday morning.
Clinton urged the community to look to the future and told them the process of restoration had already begun.
He later returned to Washington where he stopped briefly at the White House before travelling to Chile for a 34-nation Summit of the Americas.
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(15 Apr 1998) Natural Sound
U-S President Bill Clinton promised 3.2 (m) million dollars of federal aid to help repair tornado-ravaged central Alabama during a visit on Wednesday.
He offered the victims encouragement as he toured some of the areas hit during last weeks disaster and promised to set up temporary jobs to help the clean-up operation.
Winds in excess of 420 kilometres per hour (260 miles-per-hour) caused the damage and killed 33 people, most living in predominantly black suburbs on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama.
U-S President Bill Clinton surveyed the devastation caused by last Wednesday's tornadoes in Alabama.
Where people's homes once stood, all that remained was rubble.
Clinton slowly picked his way through heaps of twisted metal and piles of shattered boards tossed aside by the ferocious winds.
He brought words of comfort to the victims, as well as the promise of immediate relief.
Clinton said the U-S government would provide 3.2 (m) million dollars in emergency aid and crisis counselling for victims.
The emergency funds will be used to create temporary jobs to clean up Jefferson, Saint Clair and Tuscaloosa counties which were worst hit by the tornadoes.
Clinton also said the National Council of Churches had pledged to help rebuild or repair all the churches hit by the tornadoes.
In Pratt City, a predominantly black suburb of Birmingham, Clinton met with about 40 local residents who told him about the ferocity of the tornado and their efforts to recover.
Neighbours held aloft a sign thanking the president for visiting them.
Some aid has already reached the area and is being distributed through victim relief centres, like this one which the President visited during on Wednesday morning.
Clinton urged the community to look to the future and told them the process of restoration had already begun.
He later returned to Washington where he stopped briefly at the White House before travelling to Chile for a 34-nation Summit of the Americas.
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Stephen Quinn looks back at the F5 tornado that tore through the western suburbs of Birmingham on April 8, 1998, killing 32 people. It changed weather coverage in this market forever.
Today we look at one of many violent tornadoes to hit Birmingham, Alabama prior to April 27, 2011.
Sources and further reading:
◉https://www.weather.gov/media/bmx/significant_events/1998/04_08/april8_ams_paper.pdf
◉https://hazards.colorado.edu/uploads/basicpage/QR%20145.pdf
◉https://www.weather.gov/bmx/event_04081998
◉https://www.weather.gov/media/publications/assessments/setornad4-98.pdf
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Reoccurring Nightmares - The 1998 Birmingham F5 Tornado
Oak Grove community marks 25 years since April 8, 1998 tornado
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April 8, 1998, people across Northern Alabama were going to school, work, or waiting for Wednesday night services to begin across churchs in the state. However, meteorologists at television studios and National Weather Service Offices were paying close attention to the sky, as the potential for severe weather during the evening and night was clear as day. Everyone knew that SOMETHING could happen, but come 8pm CDT, an unforgettable hell tore through Tuscaloosa and Jefferson Counties in Alabama. An F5 tornado, the strongest type of tornado, tore through the communities of Oak Grove, Rock Creek, Edgewater, and McDonald Chapel with no mercy. The tornado killed 32 people, with the supercell responsible for the tornado continuing to produce multiple tornadoes throughout it's lifespan. The tornado is often overlooked now due to the 2011 Superoutbreak, where 2 EF5 tornadoes occurred in Alabama on the SAME DAY, in an outbreak where over 200 people died in Alabama alone, but the 1998 Oak Grove/Birmingham F5 Tornado, referred to by some as the "Twisted Fury," deserves a look back due to the damage it caused and the legacy it has as one of 8 EF/F5 tornadoes in the state of Alabama. So join me as I take a look back at this tornado, nearly 25 years later.
Special Thanks to:
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CelticWhite for the character stills
My patrons:
Alfy's Army:
Ace Cooper
Maxwell Looney
Montpelier
Alf Mini:
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Jaycario
King Shisa
Nyanbinary
Origin
Worm off the String
And everyone else for helping this year be much better for myself.
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Oak Grove High School remembers devastating April 1998 tornado
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On This Day: Remembering the EF-5 tornado that devastated western Jefferson County in 1998
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(15 Apr 1998) Natural Sound
U-S President Bill Clinton promised 3.2 (m) million dollars of federal aid to help repair tornado-ravaged central Alabama during a visit on Wednesday.
He offered the victims encouragement as he toured some of the areas hit during last weeks disaster and promised to set up temporary jobs to help the clean-up operation.
Winds in excess of 420 kilometres per hour (260 miles-per-hour) caused the damage and killed 33 people, most living in predominantly black suburbs on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama.
U-S President Bill Clinton surveyed the devastation caused by last Wednesday's tornadoes in Alabama.
Where people's homes once stood, all that remained was rubble.
Clinton slowly picked his way through heaps of twisted metal and piles of shattered boards tossed aside by the ferocious winds.
He brought words of comfort to the victims, as well as the promise of immediate relief.
Clinton said the U-S government would provide 3.2 (m) million dollars in emergency aid and crisis counselling for victims.
The emergency funds will be used to create temporary jobs to clean up Jefferson, Saint Clair and Tuscaloosa counties which were worst hit by the tornadoes.
Clinton also said the National Council of Churches had pledged to help rebuild or repair all the churches hit by the tornadoes.
In Pratt City, a predominantly black suburb of Birmingham, Clinton met with about 40 local residents who told him about the ferocity of the tornado and their efforts to recover.
Neighbours held aloft a sign thanking the president for visiting them.
Some aid has already reached the area and is being distributed through victim relief centres, like this one which the President visited during on Wednesday morning.
Clinton urged the community to look to the future and told them the process of restoration had already begun.
He later returned to Washington where he stopped briefly at the White House before travelling to Chile for a 34-nation Summit of the Americas.
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The April 6–9, 1998 tornado outbreak was a large tornado outbreak that started on April 6 across the Great Plains and ended on April 9 across the Carolinas and Georgia. A total of 62 tornadoes touched down from the Middle Atlantic States to the Midwestern United States and Texas. The outbreak is infamous for producing a deadly F5 that tore through the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, killing 32 people. The Birmingham tornado was one of only two F5 tornadoes that year. The other hit in Lawrence County, Tennessee on April 16, as part of the same outbreak as the 1998 Nashville tornadoes. This tornado outbreak was responsible for 41 deaths: 7 in Georgia and 34 in Alabama.
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April 6 event
April 7 event
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April 9 event
Birmingham area F5 tornado
Shortly after 7:30 P.M. on April 8th, the deadliest tornado of the outbreak touched down in extreme eastern Tuscaloosa County and cut a 31-mile long (49km), 3/4-mile wide swath through multiple Birmingham suburbs, producing damage ranging from F3 to F5 and causing massive destruction before lifting in the western limits of the City of Birmingham, just northwest of the junctions of Interstates 20, 59 and 65. The worst of the destruction occurred across the Oak Grove, Rock Creek and McDonald Chapel areas. The second area affected by F5 damage was also devastated by a violent tornado in 1956 that tracked through the same areas hit by this storm. Debris from the tornado was scattered across central Alabama as far north as sections of Blount County, and extensive deforestation occurred along the majority of the path.