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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 ...
The 1936 Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak was a tornado outbreak that affected the Southeastern United States during April 1936. The Greensboro, North Carolina, and Cordele, Georgia, tornadoes were the deadliest spawned during the April 1–2 outbreak, which developed in three waves of tornadic activity over 14 hours, associated with the same storm system.
Here are the top 10 deadliest tornadoes to strike in the United States, according to the Storm Prediction Center. On March 18, 1925, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history, the Tri-State Tornado of ...
Tri-State tornado outbreak. On March 18, 1925, one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in recorded history generated at least twelve significant tornadoes and spanned a large portion of the midwestern and southern United States. In all, at least 751 people were killed and more than 2,298 were injured [2], making the outbreak the deadliest ...
1936 1936 Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak: Tornado outbreak Southeastern United States: Including 23 deaths from a tornado near Cordele, Georgia: 49 1953 Tornado outbreak sequence of Early-December 1953: Tornado outbreak sequence Southeastern United States: $45,709,000 Including 38 deaths from the Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado: 49 1958
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 ...
July 13–14 – Peak of July 1936 heat wave: The U.S. states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature. At Mio in northern Michigan, it soars to 113 °F (45 °C). August 3 – African-American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics. August 14
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: Spiele der XI. Olympiade) and officially branded as Berlin 1936, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona at the 29th IOC Session on ...