3-D Google Tornado Tracks from Super Outbreak

May 3, 2011; 5:54 PM ET

The National Weather Service’s Southern Region HQ has released a Google Map and Google Earth KMZ file of the tornado tracks so far, based on their storm and aerial surveys, which I summarize in the graph below, as best as I can count from LSR reports (may disagree with map):

READ MORE TORNADO OUTBREAK 2011 STATS IN YESTERDAY’S BLOG

Additional Google Maps layers are available at this link. Here are a few 3-D screen shots of interest which I pulled from Google Earth (click to enlarge):

1. JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, ALL TORNADO TRACKS, LOOKING NORTHWEST:

2. TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA: IN BETWEEN TWO EF-4 TRACKS:

3. THE EF-5 TWISTER CROSSES THE RIVER IN DECATUR, ALABAMA:

WHO SAID TORNADOES CAN’T HAPPEN IN THE MOUNTAINS?

4. THE TORNADO SWARM EAST OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE:

5. CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA: AN EF-4 TRACKS THROUGH THE HILLS:

6. AN EF-4 TORNADO TRACKS OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF CATOOSA COUNTY, GEORGIA:

7. AN EF-3 TWISTER TRACKS THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS OF BLOUNT COUNTY, TENNESSEE: