On April 27, 2011, a giant EF4 tornado cut an 80-mile swath through the middle of Tuscaloosa, Alabama killing 65 people and causing billions of dollars in damage. At its peak, the twister was 1 1/2 miles wide. Tornado 360 follows the harrowing minute-by-minute experiences of some of those caught helpless in the giant storm’s path. The graphics we produced for the special illustrate the peril facing the town that afternoon.
From the Weather Channel:
Cutting edge graphics and animations reveal exactly how a simple twist in the wind can grow into an EF5 Tornado – “The Finger of God” – and how a particular storm created four EF5 twisters in a single day… resulting in $11 billion dollars in damage.
The investigation begins in the moment a tornado supercell formed above Little Rock, Arkansas and continues through the series of twisters tearing through city neighborhoods in Alabama for hours… to the teams of volunteers providing support to survivors.
TORNADO 360 uses detailed computer graphics to examine every moment of this once-in-a-lifetime disaster. We will zoom into locations directly in the storm’s path, then hear gripping accounts and witness first-person video from the men and women who met the storm head on.
Whether it’s the man who rushes out to save his neighbor… to a woman who holds onto her infants in a bathtub while her house disintegrates around her… we’ll discover stories of heroism in the face of the largest tornado outbreak ever recorded. Every angle is uncovered in TORNADO 360.
Tornado 360 is premiering as part of Tornado Week on the Weather Channel
Monday, April 29 at 9/8c and again Sunday, May 5 8:30/7:30c
