Deadly tornado rips through Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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Deadly tornado rips through Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Deadly tornado rips through university town of Tuscaloosa, Ala., on April 27, 2011

Lorna McCarter, left, and daughter Susan Hutchins regroup with their dog Shadow after their home was destroyed in the Cedar Crest neighborhood in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Wednesday.

A tornado - estimated to be a mile wide - moves through Tuscaloosa, Ala., Wednesday. A wave of severe storms laced with tornadoes strafed the South on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people around the region and splintering buildings across swaths of the Alabama university town.

A home and car in the Forest Lake neighborhood of Tuscaloosa, Ala. are destroyed after a tornado ripped through on Wednesday

A car lies overturned and buildings are destroyed in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Tornado cut through the Forest Lake neighborhood, just south the University of Alabama campus, leaving a path of destruction.

Homes and businesses along McFarland Boulevard are destroyed in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Businesses along the street, north of 13th Street, were left in rubble.

Residents of the Forest Lake neighborhood, just south of the University of Alabama campus, survey the damage left by the storms.

Residents on the Alabama universirty town take stock of the damage.

Area that borders the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa is littered with flipped cars and downed power lines.

A misplaced dog lies among debris in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

A semi-truck lies on its side on 15th Street after a tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa, Ala.

In this image, taken looking north from Taylorsville, Ala., a funnel cloud approaches Tuscaloosa, where reported wide spread damage occurred from the storm.

A woman sifts through the destruction of a former T-Mobile office after a tornado struck, Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Onlookers make their way through the rubble left by a tornado that touched down Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Lee Henderson sits amid the rubble of his Smoothie King store in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Debris is littered after a tornado touched down, Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Debris litters the area near the DCH Regional Medical Center on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

People walk through debris around the Cedar Crest neighborhood, located just east of the University of Alabama's Coleman Coliseum.

A woman is helped into her wheelchair after being rescued from an apartment building that was demolished by a tornado.

The massive twister "cut a path of destruction deep into the heart of the city," said Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox.

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Lorna McCarter, left, and daughter Susan Hutchins regroup with their dog Shadow after their home was destroyed in the Cedar Crest neighborhood in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Wednesday.

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