• Southern Tornado damage
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  • Southern Tornado damage
  • Southern Tornado damage
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  • Matthew 25 Ministries staff distributing relief supplies for southern tornadoes
  • Southern Tornado damage
  • Southern Tornado damage
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  • Southern Tornado damage
  • Southern Tornado damage

SOUTHERN TORNADO OUTBREAK 2011

UPDATED  FRIDAY APRIL 30, 2021 3:35 PM EST

In a span of just four days from April 25-28, 2011, more than 350 tornadoes tore through the United States taking the lives of hundreds of people and causing $12 billion in damages—making it the worst and most costly tornado outbreak in U.S. history. While most of the destruction was in the South, parts of 21 states from Texas to central New York were also affected. Debris was found over 200 miles away from where the tornadoes struck.

Our Disaster Response Team, led by now CEO Tim Mettey, delivered an initial truckload of aid to severely impacted communities, providing them with products such as personal care kits, diapers, water, and meals from our Prasco Food Processing Center. In total, we shipped approximately 300,000 pounds of supplies in response to these storms.

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