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At least 290 people were killed across six states \u2014 more than two-thirds of them in Alabama, where large cities bore the half-mile-wide scars the twisters left behind.<\/p>\n

The death toll from Wednesday\u2019s storms seems out of a bygone era, before Doppler radar and pinpoint satellite forecasts were around to warn communities of severe weather. Residents were told the tornadoes were coming up to 24 minutes ahead of time, but they were just too wide, too powerful and too locked onto populated areas to avoid a horrifying body count.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were the most intense super-cell thunderstorms that I think anybody who was out there forecasting has ever seen,\u201d said meteorologist Greg Carbin at the National Weather Service\u2019s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.<\/p>\n

via Tornadoes devastate South, killing at least 290 \u2013 Yahoo! News<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"