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Storm reports for April 15, 2011

NOAA recorded 195 hail reports, 102 wind reports and 69 tornado reports in 11 states on April 15, 2011.

in 11 states
366
Storm reports
About 60 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL
4.5 in
Largest hail
About 31 miles from Jackson, MS
85 mph
Highest gust
Highest rating EF3, about 10 miles from Jackson, MS
69
Tornado reports
Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

  • 0.75
  • 1
  • 1.5
  • 2
  • 2.5
  • 3+

Dots: reports.

  • Wind report
  • Tornado and its path
  • Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on April 15, 2011 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

What happened

At 9:51 a.m. CST on April 15, an EF3 tornado with winds near 140 mph tracked 16.5 miles from southwest of Clinton, Mississippi, across western Jackson. It destroyed houses in Clinton, damaged or destroyed many homes and businesses, flipped cars and injured 10 people. NOAA lists $8 million in property damage.1 Around noon CST, an EF3 tornado up to three-quarters of a mile wide crossed Kemper County near De Kalb, destroying mobile homes and heavily damaging frame homes, with $11 million in damage listed.2 Baseball to softball size hail, up to 4.5 inches, fell across northeast Kemper County at 12:33 p.m. CST.3

In Alabama, an EF3 tornado touched down in Marengo County at 4:04 p.m. CST and reached 150 mph south of Myrtlewood, heavily damaging or destroying several dozen mobile homes. One person died and four were hurt.4 At 6:45 p.m. CST, an EF3 tornado near Leakesville, Mississippi, damaged 98 homes, destroyed 23 of them and 14 businesses, killed one person and injured 25. NOAA lists $11.1 million in damage in Mississippi.5 The tornado went on into Washington County, Alabama, where three people died in a destroyed mobile home in Deer Park.6 At 9:47 p.m. CST, an EF3 tornado in Autauga County, Alabama, badly damaged or destroyed many homes and businesses, killing three people.7

In Georgia after 7 p.m. EST, hail up to golf ball size fell around Sandy Springs and Norcross. NOAA lists $4.27 million in damage in north Fulton County and $3.15 million in Gwinnett County.8,9

Reports by hour

Hail195, most at 5 PM

Wind102, most at 5 PM

Tornado69, most at 11 AM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

TimeRatingWherePath
10:11 AMEF0Near 31.65, -88.89, MS0.01 mi long, 50 yd wide
10:51 AMEF3About 10 miles from Jackson, MS16.53 mi long, 528 yd wide
11:20 AMEF1About 50 miles from Mobile, AL3.28 mi long, 500 yd wide
11:22 AMEF1About 11 miles from Jackson, MS7.41 mi long, 200 yd wide
11:24 AMEF0Near 31.93, -88.47, AL0.12 mi long, 50 yd wide
11:26 AMEF0Near 31.88, -88.42, AL4.65 mi long, 100 yd wide
11:41 AMEF1About 57 miles from Mobile, AL5.14 mi long, 200 yd wide
11:43 AMEF1About 22 miles from Jackson, MS7.59 mi long, 200 yd wide
11:48 AMEF1Near 32.03, -88.25, AL16.71 mi long, 200 yd wide
11:58 AMEF1About 33 miles from Jackson, MS6.95 mi long, 200 yd wide
12:04 PMEF2Near 31.55, -88.28, AL0.9 mi long, 150 yd wide
12:53 PMEF3Near 32.69, -88.99, MS48.52 mi long, 1760 yd wide
Show all 69 tornado reports
TimeRatingWherePath
1:35 PMEF1Near 39.34, -91.13, MO3.01 mi long, 50 yd wide
1:39 PMEF0About 36 miles from Jackson, MS1.03 mi long, 200 yd wide
1:47 PMEF1About 32 miles from Jackson, MS3.75 mi long, 100 yd wide
1:54 PMEF1About 51 miles from Jackson, MS6.12 mi long, 150 yd wide
2:19 PMEF2Near 33.13, -89.77, MS3.7 mi long, 200 yd wide
2:23 PMEF1About 50 miles from Jackson, MS6.87 mi long, 150 yd wide
2:33 PMEF0Near 33.16, -89.60, MS4.48 mi long, 75 yd wide
3:03 PMEF2About 51 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL4.5 mi long, 200 yd wide
3:04 PMEF1About 60 miles from Jackson, MS1.23 mi long, 440 yd wide
3:06 PMEF1Near 31.69, -87.22, AL0.76 mi long, 100 yd wide
3:14 PMEF3About 20 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL18.37 mi long, 500 yd wide
3:33 PMEF2About 35 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL2.2 mi long, 700 yd wide
3:53 PMEF2Near 32.44, -88.33, AL8.92 mi long, 200 yd wide
4:00 PMEF1About 25 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL21.77 mi long, 1760 yd wide
4:08 PMEF1Near 32.08, -88.52, MS24.49 mi long, 470 yd wide
4:35 PMEF2About 49 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL8.73 mi long, 325 yd wide
4:44 PMEF2About 45 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL24.1 mi long, 880 yd wide
4:59 PMEF1About 59 miles from Jackson, MS1.63 mi long, 880 yd wide
4:59 PMEF0About 20 miles from Birmingham, AL1.37 mi long, 50 yd wide
5:04 PMEF3Near 32.19, -88.01, AL15.33 mi long, 800 yd wide
5:11 PMEF2Near 31.62, -87.26, AL0.86 mi long, 150 yd wide
5:19 PMEF2Near 32.31, -87.93, AL5.4 mi long, 575 yd wide
5:29 PMEF2Near 31.72, -87.09, AL22.27 mi long, 300 yd wide
5:30 PMEF1About 41 miles from Peoria, IL3.08 mi long, 100 yd wide
5:35 PMEF2Near 32.29, -87.74, AL10.87 mi long, 600 yd wide
5:44 PMEF1About 25 miles from Birmingham, AL4.38 mi long, 100 yd wide
6:00 PMEF0About 57 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL4.65 mi long, 150 yd wide
6:12 PMEF2Near 32.01, -88.33, AL38.81 mi long, 800 yd wide
6:22 PMEF0About 54 miles from Peoria, IL1.24 mi long, 50 yd wide
6:25 PMEF2About 48 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL0.8 mi long, 500 yd wide
6:25 PMEF1About 52 miles from Peoria, IL1.72 mi long, 150 yd wide
6:50 PMEF0About 13 miles from Columbus, GA0.43 mi long, 50 yd wide
7:05 PMEF1About 47 miles from Montgomery, AL0.1 mi long, 75 yd wide
7:23 PMEF0About 14 miles from Montgomery, AL2.73 mi long, 75 yd wide
7:45 PMEF3About 45 miles from Mobile, AL18.3 mi long, 500 yd wide
7:48 PMEF1About 55 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL0.18 mi long, 100 yd wide
8:04 PMEF1About 52 miles from Montgomery, AL1.64 mi long, 250 yd wide
8:12 PMEF0About 34 miles from Clarksville, TN0.3 mi long, 50 yd wide
8:14 PMEF1About 34 miles from Clarksville, TN2.5 mi long, 125 yd wide
8:48 PMEF1About 26 miles from Montgomery, AL7.88 mi long, 200 yd wide
8:56 PMEF1About 25 miles from Montgomery, AL13.42 mi long, 200 yd wide
9:06 PMEF0About 23 miles from Montgomery, AL4.43 mi long, 50 yd wide
9:20 PMEF2Near 31.48, -87.68, AL0.35 mi long, 200 yd wide
9:25 PMEF1About 35 miles from Montgomery, AL3.19 mi long, 75 yd wide
9:27 PMEF0About 26 miles from Montgomery, AL0.35 mi long, 50 yd wide
9:29 PMEF1About 33 miles from Montgomery, AL3.01 mi long, 800 yd wide
9:29 PMEF2About 33 miles from Montgomery, AL9.98 mi long, 800 yd wide
10:05 PMEF0About 31 miles from Mobile, AL1.24 mi long, 80 yd wide
10:26 PMEF2Near 31.71, -87.15, AL3.23 mi long, 400 yd wide
10:47 PMEF3About 24 miles from Montgomery, AL9.29 mi long, 400 yd wide
11:15 PMEF2About 42 miles from Montgomery, AL3.32 mi long, 400 yd wide
11:17 PMEF2About 24 miles from Montgomery, AL20.75 mi long, 1320 yd wide
11:38 PMEF1About 49 miles from Crestview, FL10.23 mi long, 150 yd wide
11:43 PMEF1About 42 miles from Montgomery, AL6.64 mi long, 200 yd wide
12:08 AMEF2About 36 miles from Crestview, FL22.95 mi long, 300 yd wide
3:50 AMEF1About 9 miles from Columbus, GA0.26 mi long, 50 yd wide
5:02 AMEF1Near 32.86, -83.72, GA3.46 mi long, 500 yd wide

By state

StateReportsHailWindTornado
Mississippi105602817
Alabama84231843
Illinois5740143
Georgia3816193
Louisiana2313100
Kentucky191432
Missouri191711
Tennessee181170
Arkansas1100
Indiana1010
Ohio1010

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

CityLargest hailHighest gustTornado reports
Atlanta, GA1.75 in64 mph0
Baton Rouge, LA1.75 inNone0
Jackson, MS1.0 in58 mph2
Nashville, TN1.0 in63 mph0
St. Louis, MO1.0 inNone0
Birmingham, ALNone49 mph0
Columbus, GANone58 mph2
Montgomery, ALNoneNone1

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.