Alabama Tornadoes 2011: Massive Tuscaloosa Twister Filmed (VIDEO)

As severe storms continued to rip across the South, the death toll across 5 states rose to over 190 Thursday morning, the AP reports.

Alabama alone has confirmed 128 deaths as a result of the massive storms, which spawned countless tornadoes in multiple states.

From the AP:

The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said it received 137 tornado reports around the regions, including 66 in Alabama and 38 in Mississippi.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama -- a city of over 83,000 and home to University of Alabama -- was one of the hardest hit areas in the state. The mayor said that the city's police and emergency services were devastated, and has reported at least 15 deaths, with over 100 people in a single hospital as a result of the storms.

The shocking video below shows a massive tornado as it pummels through Tuscaloosa.

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Comments

[reddbowtie]

03:07 PM on 04/30/2011

Our prayers go out to everyone who has lost a loved one or has been injured in this disaster.

[Ryan Dale Hanson]

09:01 PM on 05/03/2011

many thanks to u! With every one around the country sitting around to debate WHY or CAUSE u are one of the few with thoughts and prayers. I call 15th st tuscaloosa AL home and any thoughts and prayers mean more to everyone down here more than you could ever know!

[SarahCuda2]

02:16 PM on 04/29/2011

Only an IDIOT could look at this - http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/tornado/tornadotrend.jpg - and say human CO2 causes strong tornadoes.

The one in Mississippi caused damage to levels not seen since 1966. Does that mean our climate has reverted to that of 1966? Not any more than it serves as evidence that our CO2 emission is responsible either. It is WEATHER.

[wakawaka09]

01:22 PM on 04/30/2011

Only an idiot could hold that her uninformed opinion concerning a matter of which she knows nothing exceeds that of the global scientific community. People with doctorates are in consensus. You're opinion concerning global warming may comfort you and make you feel smart but ultimately it is irrelevant.

[Jared Mosher]

02:20 PM on 04/30/2011

Yeah, those same people withhold information and change statistics because they're global warming theory isn't happening, and any doctorate that disagrees with them is shunned from the scientific community. These are facts you can see for yourself. Google Climategate, there's undeniable PROOF they changed documents. It isn't conspiracy, it was on all the major news outlets. The UN is going to be making way too much money, possibly trillions, from charging green bill taxes to companies for how much pollution they put out. They aren't telling them to cut back, they're charging them more for it. Al Gore wants to be a billionaire. and here's something else that isn't a scientific consensus but a scientific FACT, in the last 7 years the world has actually been COOLING. So don't tell her about "her uninformed opinion concerning a matter of which she knows nothing" to make you feel like you're smart but ultimatley irrelevant. You're a puppet on a string.

[Jared Mosher]

02:57 PM on 04/30/2011

The real cause is probably the shifting of the earths core and how thats weakening our magnetic field. The north pole has gone from moving about 10 miles a year to almost 40 and the planets are going to be aligning next year so gravitational pull in the galaxy is increasing. We're just a small planet in a huge universe. You can research everything I have said, Climategate, green bills, global cooling in the last decade, earths core shifting, the planets aligning, it's all there.

[xerocada1]

03:32 PM on 04/30/2011

What amazes me is that people continue to ignore the opinions of the global scientific community after years of research and conclusive evidence that global warming is occurring and yet...continue to believe in the fantasies of heaven and hell, an afterlife, and the idea that some kind of supreme being could send "his son to be sacrificed and rise from the dead". Where's the proof of that!?

[fireofenergy]

09:58 PM on 04/28/2011

I wish these things did not have to happen there!
Makes me think "the big one" is going to hit home...
Bty,
The ads are just too much. I let it go, just to hit replay when I came back... and there it was again... Youtube doesn't do ads every time, especially, when the video is shorter than the ad.
I understand the need for commercials, but this is taking it (like 20 seconds) too far! (I will never buy Claritin)

[ImaVeteran]

09:53 PM on 04/28/2011

you are sick dude.

[obelis]

08:10 PM on 04/28/2011

Guess who picks up the tab...the socialists.

[maigesheng]

11:34 AM on 04/29/2011

gladly

[wakawaka09]

01:23 PM on 04/30/2011

Nothing like helping out your fellow man and not expecting a tax credit or write off for doing so.

[hazyafternoonsunshine]

05:27 PM on 04/28/2011

Thoughts and prayers for all whose lives have been devastated by the storm, and condolences to those who lost loved ones and treasured friends.

[politicky]

02:39 PM on 04/28/2011

In California we have building code requirements in case of earthquakes. They certainly are not foolproof, but they have saved many lives.

In Alabama if you live in a mobile home park they tell you to lay down in a ditch and cover your head? Why aren't storm cellars a requirement in the building codes?

[ronkw]

04:56 PM on 04/28/2011

In many places one will hit water within 6-8 ft.
How bout Libs just ban tornadoes.

[CUL8R]

07:50 PM on 04/28/2011

Everything is not political. Sheesh.

[Counterglow]

12:13 AM on 04/29/2011

How 'bout cons just throw 'em in jail.

[Atsaguy]

04:09 PM on 04/29/2011

If an earthquake were to hit LA you would be in shock at the number of buildings that are not up to code and will fall killing thousands upon thousands..and yes what few are up to code might withstand...most people in tornadoe alley have storm shelters either under the house or close to the outside of the house. These storm shelthers are better than a cellar/basement. Mobile home's are not a good place to be during a storm. People who wait out the strorm in their home usually end up dead..

[politicky]

01:38 PM on 04/30/2011

earthquakes hit LA all the time, and yes, an earthquake of the maginitude that hit Japan would cause massive damage and loss of life, if it were a certain type.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake#Naturally_occurring_earthquakes

[michelesda]

01:49 PM on 04/28/2011

Sigh, I wonder who God hates this week.

[April Aretta Pritchett]

01:29 PM on 05/03/2011

April Aretta Pritchett did Not Say She Liked This!!!!

[michelesda]

04:50 PM on 05/03/2011

If you happen to have God on speed dial, sure hope you'll give him a ring and ask him nice to please chill out for awhile, okay?

[jedi penguin]

12:40 PM on 04/28/2011

It's sad that the states that are most likely to be represented by climate change deniers are consistently hardest hit by the extreme weather that comes to the United States. People need to stop voting against their own self interest.

[deepfreezevideo]

01:00 PM on 04/28/2011

You will never convince them.

[manfromsnowy]

02:27 PM on 04/28/2011

Read "How we Decide" .......................
emotions
seems how we decide.

[moiraz]

12:36 PM on 04/28/2011

I don't think we in Washington state should complain about our rain anymore

[Albert Dussault]

12:36 PM on 04/28/2011

These super visions of destruction when they are set on man by man or set on man by the forces of nature have a way of cutting our hubris down to size. How humbling to lose everything. From one moment to the next a vicious circumstance can ruin everything that we knew about life just moments before.

On a different matter--why does the Ad for Chase Bank and J P Morgan come through so flawlessly, yet the video that it sopnsors is not viewable .. Why can they make the ad come through so flawlessly and not do the same for the actual video that we line up to see

[deepfreezevideo]

01:02 PM on 04/28/2011

Commercials pay the bills...it's not Huff Post's fault....A lot more money is spent on EVERYTHING where ads are concerned. From cameras to acqusition formats, to post production workflow, to encoding and delivery, everything is TOP DOLLAR.

It is the same in every distribution scenario, from broadcast to satellite to cable and even on the web.

[chris2fer]

06:14 PM on 04/28/2011

Better yet why would anyone bank with them?

[HapticZ]

12:26 PM on 04/28/2011

momma nature jest teachin' us a lesson in humility!

[Joe Neri]

12:20 PM on 04/28/2011

A friend of mine from Tennessee once told me that a tornado sounds like a hundred freight trains coming straight at you.

[Northwestgirl]

12:07 PM on 04/28/2011

Seeing so much destruction - it must be the weirdest feeling coming up from the cellar and seeing ones home gone

[palealesam]

11:48 AM on 04/28/2011

Just a quick show of hands here... Remember in school, in science class, how they showed tornado alley as a red strip running from Texas up through the midwest to the northern states? I find it interesting that from the time I was in school (about 18 years ago) that the amount of tornadoes in eastern states have increased dramatically. I am not talking about just these storms, I am talking about over the last 10 years. Hmmm, I wonder if it could have something to do with environmental changes.... Oh yea, it's just natural patterns right?

[nnyl]

11:49 AM on 04/28/2011

I was just thinking the same thing.

[Tygartman]

12:20 PM on 04/28/2011

I hear this is the largest outbreak of tornadoes since 1974. What caused all of that activity in 1974....was it global warming even then? Or maybe it was the coming Ice Age.

[palealesam]

12:30 PM on 04/28/2011

I was speaking more to the location of storms on average. But to answer your question if I had to guess it had more to do with god smiting sinners... Hey if you are going to propose over the top BS I can too.

[Lemmy]

12:30 PM on 04/28/2011

If only cap and trade was passed, none of this would have happened.