Unfortgettable Month, Unforgettable Ending

April has now finally ended.  Sadly, it ended with the biggest bang yet that has ever been seen in over 65 years.  What caused such a dramatic ending?  To put it simple, everything just lined up perfectly to create an event that created the April 25-28 Super Tornado Outbreak.  Normally, I post images and even some videos, but this time it is strictly going to be words and statistics.  Here are a few statistics published by NOAA on the event:

• NOAA estimates 312 tornadoes during April 26-28.  They estimate that 266 of those are all from 8AM on the 27th to 8AM on the 28th.
• NOAA estimates of at least 344 deaths from April 26-28.  They estimate that 334 of those are from 8AM on the 27th to 8AM on the 28th.

Pretty incredible huh?!

Here are some more up-to-date statistics about the tornadoes.

• As of right now, there has been 130 confirmed tornadoes.  Sadly and unfortunately about 112 tornadoes have not been confirmed yet, which brings the estimated total to 242 tornadoes so far.
• Currently, out of the confirmed tornadoes, there are 26 EF0, 50 EF1, 24 EF2, 16 EF3, 13 EF4, and 2 EF5.  Some of this are not official as continuing investigation goes on to either verify the standing rating or to increase the rating.
• There were about 21 states and one Canadian Province effected by the tornadoes.  The states are:  Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Michigan, Indiana, Mississippi, New York, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida.  The one Canadian Province was Ontario.
• About 17 of those were long-track tornadoes, that is tornadoes with a distance of 25 miles or greater.  This distance by no means anything official, it's just my judgement and approximation.  Severeal tornadoes have not been measured in their path length so that number is likely to change.
• The longest tornado track so far is one that originated in Raleigh, MS and ended north of Pennington, AL.  The track length is 92.3 miles.  The runner up the tornado that tract thru Tuscaloosa and Birmingham with a track length of at least 80 miles.  That tornado could be longer than that as it continues to be surveyed.
• The deadliest tornado is the Tuscaloosa/Birmingham tornado with 65+ fatalities and 1000+ injuries.
• The cost of damages is estimated to be between $2-5 billion.

Absolutely amazing information isn't it.  This information is most likely to change as it will take weeks and maybe even months to really get close to the exact count on the number of tornadoes, deaths, and the cost of damages.  As time goes on, I will inform you all the final statistics from the event.  Keep your thoughts and your prayers to all of the people and families the have been effected by this tragic event.  Also, If you have time and/or near the areas impacted please help out in anyways possible whether its buying someone lunch or bring a truck load of people with tools and helping to clean up the disaster.  Anything like that will help these lives get closer to normality.