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  1. Becky McClure

    This is the storm that mother and mawmaw always talked about. Papa and uncle Will Griffen watched, from the back porch of a house that still stand just out of Lineville going toward Barfield, this storm as it moved through Clay county. Mother said it looked like a big ball of fire bouncing along the ground.

  2. Dan Barnette

    Katherine Brown Northcutt , this is one the one’s that went through N. Perry .

    1. Katherine Brown Northcutt

      Wow. Mother would have been an infant. Thanks for sharing.

    2. Katherine Brown Northcutt

      I figured that out right after I posted that!

  3. Peggy Crum

    My grandmother always talked about it also. Took out a tree in the front yard. They were thankful it did not land on the house.

  4. Pansy Kimbrough

    I heard my mom & dad speak of this killer tornado that came through Paint Rock Al & killed several I did not know until I read this article today one of the ladies killed was named Pansey (wonder if this is where my mom got my name) it almost destroyed our little country town

  5. Pansy Kimbrough

    I ALWAYS HEARD OF MY MOM & DAD SPEAK OF THIS KILLER TORNADO THAT KILLED SEVERAL IN OUR SMALL COUNTRY TOWN OF PAINT ROCK,AL I DID NOT KNOW UNTIL READING THIS ARTICLE THAT A LADY NAMED PANSEY WAS KILLED (wonder if this is where my Mom got my name)

  6. Frances Simmons Hughes

    I can remember a lady in our church in Helena who had been badly injured in that tornado. My uncle lost his wife in that tornado, also. She was 8 months pregnant.

  7. Blake Davis

    Man, times were tough from 1915-1945! Pandemics on humans, Elm disease, Pineapple virus, Insect plagues, dust bowl, economic depressions, and wars, then there was the weather.

  8. Wanda Foster

    Josh Johnson

  9. Wanda Foster

    Josh Johnson WSFA

  10. Jeff Kirby

    My mother and her family survived their house being destroyed during a tornado in Paint Rock on this date. It was always referred to as “The Storm.”

  11. Tammy Hope

    My Dad was 7 when this took place.He had vivid memories of these storms.

  12. Dorothy Dobbs Maddox

    Tony P Smithson

    1. Tony Smithson

      Thanks

    2. Tony P Smithson

      Thanks

  13. Jackie Boles

    This is such an amazing story!

  14. Tim Tidwell

    Is this the storm that destroyed scottsboro

  15. Jerry Heston

    April 27, 2011 there were 60 tornadoes that hit the state of Alabama!

  16. Lisa Miller

    I was 7yo when the Super Tornado hit Cullman and other places. I had ptsd from the horrors. 1974 april.

  17. Toni Gautney Baron

    Theron Kelley Your Mother is listed through the link.

    1. Theron Kelley

      Toni Gautney Baron Yes. I have the bham news article with the list somewhere.

    2. Walt Sanders

      Theron Kelley my grandmother, Tommye Cox, use to tell me stories of this tornado. I can’t remember if she was living in Sylacauga at the time or San Francisco, I believe she would have been married to B.R Cox during this event

    3. Theron Kelley

      Walt Sanders B.R. Cox was the State Farm agent from whom I bought my first auto insurance.

    4. Walt Sanders

      Theron Kelley I wish I had a chance to have met him. Mr Duck use to tell me about him.

  18. Susan Weathersby Mann

    Mr. Latham’s interview was one of the most moving stories I’ve ever heard.

  19. David Ayers

    I remember my grandmothers talk about this…

  20. Renne King

    This tornado blew my house away including the foundation. Of course it wasn’t my house at the time. The Looney’s built it back exactly how it had been before the storm. Mrs. Hightower told me the story.

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