I did cemetery studies in the Alabama area years later, and there are whole sections of several cemeteries all with the same death date: April 27, 2011. It was really sobering to see.

That was a day I will never forget. I was living in a small community between Fort Payne and Sylvania on Sylvania gap road. The Blake community. We lost power early in the morning so I connected a power inverter to my cars battery to power the dish, tv, and police scanner. When I heard Fort Payne officers saying they saw the tornado going across the brow of the mountain I went outside to see. It was incredibly large. It hit just a few miles from my house and we went to see if we could help people in that area but there was nothing left, no homes, no buildings, no people. And when I say nothing I mean nothing. For about a mile there wasn’t even grass. Some parts of the pavement was gone. It was the most unbelievable thing I’ve ever seen and it still haunts me to this day, I can’t even imagine what those people experienced during this.

Carly… as an autistic person who’s fascinated with tornadoes and has a lot of empathy in their heart… You did a great job in handling this… God speed to you, and rest in peace to those lives lost.

That tornado missed my house by 1/4 of a mile! Thank you for actually covering this tornado in such good detail as it’s one of the more looked-over of this outbreak!

Idk if it's just me but the windchimes in that home video at 20:18 are so eerie. Something about windchimes in severe weather give me the shivers.

The mental health aspect of it is something that needs more attention. When a person or a group of people suffer something traumatic, it needs to be addressed... ideally with therapy. When its entire communities that experience trauma somehow we treat that differently, like its just part of life.
I was directly impacted by Katrina and volunteered in the aftermath of the 2011 outbreak. The shell shocked look that some people had days or weeks later is very evident to me that hundreds of people were walking around with PTSD and probably didnt realize that they still needed help.
You mentioned it but I dont think most people understand the amount of people that were injured in this outbreak and how many people were directly impacted but didnt suffer serious physical injury.
From someone who is diagnosed with PTSD, im telling you that some of that people had it and they probably still havnt been treated properly and it never goes away.

Carly, I live in Guntersville, Al and  lived through the 2011 Super Outbreak. Being a weather geek as a hobby all my life, I got up early that day to look at the radar of the incoming first wave. Upon seeing a strengthening after each radar scan I got my wife and kids up and we headed to the storm shelter in Union Grove, AL 10 minutes away. After coming out of the shelter there were no obvious signs of damage, until we drove into Guntersville!!! For snacks and other supplies for the day. Every power line and pole on the Cosway was down and the reality of the day became apparent. With the arrival of the 2nd wave we were back down in the shelter and stayed until after the 3rd and final wave. When we came out of the shelter after the final wave passed I saw something I have never seen before or since. The sky was split in half as far as you could see. Constant lightning to the east and stars to the west. The line down the middle of the sky is something I will never forget ! While we were lucky and did not sustain direct damage to our home we were so close that pieces of surrounding homes were in my yard. Marshall county was hit by 12 separate tornadoes that day with the strongest being an EF 4 in the afternoon. The Guntersville state park was leveled and many RVs ended up in the lake.

Good video !

Rainsville is 30 miles away from me. I didn't live on Sand Mountain during the 2011 outbreak. Everybody who did live here takes tornado watches and warnings very seriously, and they all have anxiety on severe weather days. I purchased an above ground concrete shelter large enough for myself and a number of neighbors. We also have four public shelters within ten miles of my house. I keep saying I'm going to go to Rainsville and eat at Katy's Katfish, but I haven't made it there yet. For those of you who pray, say a prayer for all of us tomorrow, as we face another severe threat day. And pray for those having storms today.

You're a wonderful role model for young girls who aspire to go into the field of peer review based science. Keep up the great work and great job with this presentation Carly.

The truck that was spray painted "Didn't Make It" is so chilling to me.

I’m from Rainsville! I was a junior in high school that year. Early that morning, the county above us got hit. But for us, that was the MOST BEAUTIFUL day. It was hot, sunny, and EVERYTHING was a vibrant green. We kept laughing that it was a waste that we got out of school that day. My (now husband) is 10 years older than me, his house got hit, my house got it, my in laws house got hit (yes, my husband AND his family at two different residences houses got hit) and my school got hit. I love this video so much. Thank you for sharing!!

Carly's niche of focusing on the human side of historic tornadoes over the meteorological side is so admirable to me.

She clearly is a very kind, decent human being and I'm a HUGE fan of her work.

Keep up the content, you're brilliant at what you do!! ❤❤

This tornado isn’t talked about nearly enough. It is just about as underrated as the El Reno/ Piedmont EF5 of that same year.

YouTube just set off the Carly Siren... it is time for her to give us some EF-5 level knowledge.

1:39 I always read the lists of the dead. To see so many share the same last name just breaks my heart each and every time.

Thank you for showing so much respect to the deceased and reminding people that injuries are not just a broken arm or some scrapes and bruises. In such violence, they are often life altering injuries.

I’ll never forget April 27, 2011. It was the day before my 11th birthday. I rode with friends to school and we remember the sky looking so dark even at 7:30 am. Not even a hour in, we were rushed into the hallway & took position. I remember people screaming & crying. The back doors got pulled open by the wind & I just remember thinking I was going to die. We were fortunate to be barely missed by a tornado, but I remember we were out of school for the next three days because it hit harder in other areas. I will never forget it.

Every time I hear about the 2011 Super Outbreak, it genuinely baffles me how many violent storms were happening at the same time. So many exceptionally powerful Tornadoes that day: Hackleburg, Smithville (which I'd love to see a video on!), Philadelphia, Tuscaloosa, just to name a few.

And we cannot forget the Piedmont and Joplin. 2011 was an ANGRY year.

I sincerely hope Bryce is doing well. That's heart wrenching.....I cannot imagine enduring this at 10 years old.

April 3, 1974 59:58 woke me to the power of tornados, which I had never seen before.  I literally watched tornados form and drop down on Ohio across the river.  Quite an intro to tornados.  Now a weather geek., always trying to learn more, even at 75.