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Storm survey teams from the National Weather Service’s Birmingham and Huntsville offices today reported that a total of 30 tornadoes touched down in Alabama on April 27.

Teams from the Birmingham office today reported that tornadoes had been found in Chilton, Marengo, Perry, and Sumter counties.

Those new tornado tracks are:

<<< An EF-2 tornado brought 120 mph winds across a 32 mile path from southeast Sumter county, across central and northeast Marengo and ending in southwest Perry County. Three people were injured by this storm, which left a path 350 yards wide.

<<< An EF-1 tornado in the Perry County town of Marion brought 90 mph winds along a path that was four miles long and 200 yards wide.

<<< An EF-0 tornado near the Chilton County community of Verbena brought 80 mph winds along a path nearly two miles long and 50 yards wide.

Rain kept those teams from going out today, said meteorologist Kevin Pence. A two-person team on Wednesday will survey damage in parts of Pickens, Greene and Fayette counties.

“We’re not quite done, but we’re getting there,” Pence said of the surveys.

In the Huntsville area, new tornado tracks today were identified in Bridgeport, in Jackson county, and in northern Madison County, said meteorologist Andy Kula.

Details about those storms were not immediately available.

Two other tornadoes were added to Huntsville’s list late Monday night.

Those are two EF-2 tornadoes, including one that swept a two mile stretch of the Franklin County town of Hodges and another that traveled a nearly seven mile long path between Jackson and DeKalb counties the morning of April 27.

Survey teams from the Birmingham office today also upgraded a tornado that traveled a 72 mile path from east Jefferson County to Cherokee County from EF-3 to EF-4, the second strongest tornado.

“That was based on further evaluation,” Pence said.

The strongest storm of April 27 was an EF-5 tornado which killed at least 26 people when 200 mph winds swept across 132 miles, from Marion County into Tennessee.

That was the first EF-5 tornado to affect north Alabama since April 3, 1974, the weather service reported.

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