Friday, April 29, 2011

300 DEAD-163 Tornadoes in a 24hr period

TUSCALOOSA, AL (RNN) - A horrific storm system that killed more than 300 people in seven states across the South is one of the worst the country has experienced in more than four decades.

In the 24-hour period that ended at 8 a.m. CT Thursday, 163 tornadoes had been reported by eye witnesses. One of those, a mile-wide tornado that bisected Alabama, killed more than 210 people in that state alone, barely missing a college campus housing thousands of students, but leveling a large swatch of town with its destruction.

Read more at Fox News WBRC Channel 6

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