Less than three weeks after a major outbreak, another rash of tornadoes tore across parts of the South and Midwest in early April 2025. That included 40 strong twisters.

There are at least 19 tornado memorials in Alabama, more than triple the number erected before the April 27, 2011, outbreak.

In southeast Missouri, an EF3 tornado damaged or destroyed homes near the town of Latty, about 55 miles southwest of St. Louis during the April 2 outbreak. That evening, another EF3 tornado ...