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Gainesville was the site of a deadly F4 on June 1, 1903, which killed 98 people. Gainesville was the site of the fifth deadliest tornado in U.S. history in 1936, [13] in which Gainesville was devastated and 203 people were killed. [14] In April 1974, an F4 tornado 22.6 miles away from the Gainesville city center killed six people and injured ...
Enigma tornado outbreak. 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak. April 1924 tornado outbreak. 1932 Deep South tornado outbreak. 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak. 1936 Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak. Tornado outbreak of Leap Day 1952. Tornado outbreak sequence of April 28 – May 2, 1953. Tornado outbreak sequence of December 1–6 ...
From April 4–5, 2022, a mesoscale convective system and numerous discrete supercells produced a swath of severe weather and several tornadoes in the Southeastern United States, including several strong, long tracked tornadoes. An EF3 tornado damaged or destroyed several homes in Bonaire, Georgia while a large EF3 tornado prompted a tornado ...
1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak. On April 5–6, 1936, an outbreak of 14 (or more) tornadoes struck the Southeastern United States, killing at least 454 people (with 419 of those deaths caused by just two tornadoes) and injuring at least 2,500 others. Over 200 people died in Georgia alone, making it the deadliest disaster ever ...
Tornado Alley (also known as Tornado Valley) is a loosely defined location of the central United States and Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. [1] The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to study severe weather in areas of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and New York.
The tornadoes were produced by a thunderstorm interacting with an outflow boundary and were largely unexpected, forming in an area where no tornado risk had been outlined by the Storm Prediction Center. [29] [112] [113] This tornado family caused $3.6 million (2022 USD) in damage according to the National Centers for Environmental Information.
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin, an unofficial, high-end classification of tornado warning—sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ...
April 27, 2024 at 12:26 PM. A series of tornadoes hit Nebraska and Iowa on Friday, leveling homes and wreaking havoc in the Midwest. Elkhorn, a neighborhood of Omaha, was most severely impacted ...