re: Tenth Anniversary of the 2011 Super Tornado Outbreak

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1974 Super Outbreak.

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I was knee high to a grasshopper at 11 years old growing up in Decatur. Our neighbor was a NWS employee who worked in Huntsville. He told us the day before to watch out. We spent a goodly amount of time in the house hallway surrounded by pillows and mattresses. Lived near the river and that's when I saw my first tornado live. It's the one which wiped out Tanner. Had a little friend at church whose family lived in Tanner. House was wiped of the map, looked like a freshly poured slab. The house debris and belongings were about 300 yards across a field in a treeline. They were spared due to the neighbors storm cellar. Their house was right on 31 near the first light you come to from the south.