Tornado Tracks in Tuscaloosa – NASA |
NASA seems to have gotten BETTER at capturing images of natural disasters from Space. The latest images come from this last weeks Massive Tornado outbreaks in the south. The Images show the Tornado Tracks in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in very good detail. The images were acquired by using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) from the Aqua Satellite on April 28. In the photo you can see three very distinct tonado tracks. The pale brown trails where green trees and plants were uprooted. Several links to photo’s from Alabama and Georgia can be found in the NASA Earth Observatory, as well as more satellite data from the storms.
The tornadoes were part of a larger weather pattern that produced more than 150 tornadoes across six states, according to the National Weather Service. The death toll reached 300 on April 29, making the outbreak the deadliest in the United States since 1974.
Source: NASA Earth Observatory, International Business Times
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