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Right mix of conditions brewed tornado outbreak

By Seth Borenstein
Published April 29, 2014 7:51pm ET
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Right mix of conditions brewed tornado outbreak
A view of a rain-wrapped tornado looking south from Hazel Green High School is seen as multiple tornadoes raked across Hazel Green and northern Madison County late afternoon Monday, April 28, 2014, in Hazel Green, Ala. (AP Photo/AL.com, Eric Schultz) | Eric Schultz

WASHINGTON (AP) — Weather from nearly all parts of the country combined to brew this week’s killer tornadoes.

To get tornadoes — especially the big deadly kind — everything has to come together in just the right way and it hadn’t been doing that lately, said meteorologist Greg Carbin at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.

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