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Another F4—the deadliest in North Carolina history—hit Rockingham, North Carolina, and killed 23. (≥37 significant, 4 violent, ≥27 killer) 1884 March tornado outbreak: March 24–25, 1884: Southeastern United States – Ohio Valley >29: 32 fatalities (29 significant, 11 killer) 1884 Oakville tornado: April 1, 1884: Oakville, Indiana: 1
Enigma tornado outbreak; April 1924 tornado outbreak; 1936 Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of March 12–15, 1953; Tornado outbreak sequence of April 28 – May 2, 1953; Tornado outbreak of April 8, 1957; Tornado outbreak of February 24−25, 1961; 1966 Candlestick Park tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of February 21 ...
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.
A possible tornado hit Lithonia at 3:13 p.m. local standard time (20:13 UTC), significantly damaging the roof of a business, while also causing roof damage to a nearby apartment. A piece of roofing fell onto an automobile, badly damaging the latter. A tornado was seen north of Statham around 3:30 p.m. (20:30 UTC), but without damage.
In North Carolina, the outbreak was the state's deadliest since March 1984, [61] and the largest in state history. [62] Describing the outbreak, AccuWeather meteorologist Henry Margusity said, "There has not been a tornado outbreak in history over three days with this many tornadoes spawned by a single storm system". [63]
Shortly thereafter, the outbreak widened and intensified, progressing from Alabama to Virginia between noon and midnight. The outbreak also produced the deadliest individual tornado in North Carolina history, an F4 which swept through the Rockingham area, killing 23. [nb 1] [nb 2] [nb 3]
The 1988 Raleigh tornado was the most destructive of the seven tornadoes reported in northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia on November 28, 1988, between 1:00 AM and 5:45 AM. The Raleigh tornado produced over $77 million in damage, along with four fatalities (two in the city of Raleigh, and two in Nash County ) and 154 injuries.
The deadliest tornado on record was the Daulatpur–Saturia tornado which occurred in the Dhaka division of Bangladesh on April 26, 1989. With a rating of at least F3 from the World Meteorological Organization and top winds estimated at greater than 200 mph (320 km/h), the tornado killed an estimated 1,300 people and injured at least 12,000 others.