Today marks the anniversary of the 1956 Hudsonville-Standale tornado. Watch the full video here: https://www.woodtv.com/video/anniversary-of-the-1956-hudsonville-standale-tornado/9573713/ | WOOD TV8

April 27th, 2011 is what many consider the stormiest day on record in the U.S. 10 years ago, 207 tornadoes tore through the country, killing more than 300 people. | The Weather Channel

NINE YEARS AGO TODAY: I still don't have the words to describe the generational tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011. In Alabama, 62 tornadoes touched down. A total of 252 were killed, over one thousand more injured. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg is a gifted writer, and his words in Southern Living written after that horrible day perhaps are appropriate: "Where the awful winds bore down, massive oaks, 100 years old, were shoved over like stems of grass, and great pines, as big around as