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The tornadoes from space

Posted at 1:25 PM on April 30, 2011 by Bob Collins (0 Comments)
Filed under: Weather

NASA has released this image of Alabama. You can see the track of three tornadoes around the Tuscaloosa area. Click on the image for a larger one.

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GEOEYE has made these before-after images available from a satellite 400 miles above Tuscaloosa.

Before...

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And after...

tuscaloosa_after.jpg

The Tuscaloosa News also has some side-by-side, before-and-after photos here.

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