"What the National Weather Service calls the Hackleburg Tornado traveled 132 miles, winds surpassing 210 mph, a nonstop scar in the earth running 90 miles from Hackleburg to Huntsville. Of a dozen deadly twisters across Alabama on April 27, this was the only one given the strongest rating of EF-5. This one tornado alone is thought to have claimed 70 lives, by far the deadliest single twister in state history..."(from a story in today's Huntsville Times.)
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Short of getting into an actual tornado shelter dug underground, I suppose there's not much you can do when an F-5 heads in your direction. That poor town.
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