OTD in 1956: Tornadoes Rake South Central Alabama

Just after midnight, on an early Sunday morning, just two days before Christmas, a family of four small tornadoes skipped along a remarkable 121.7-mile corridor across South Central Alabama, impacting Monroe, Conecuh, Butler, Lowndes, Montgomery, Elmore, and Tallapoosa counties. Beginning in Excel, the tornadoes skipped through Burnt Corn, Searcy, Fort Deposit, Pintlala, Snowdoun, and Mt. Meigs before lifting near Reeltown.

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