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Although the outbreak is often centered on the violent tornadoes in Tupelo, Mississippi (with an estimated F5 rating), and Gainesville, Georgia (estimated F4 rating), there were other destructive tornadoes in the cities of Columbia, Tennessee; Acworth, Georgia; and Anderson, South Carolina. One long-track F4 tornado killed six people in rural ...
1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: April 5–6, 1936: Southeastern United States: 17: 454 fatalities, 2498 injuries: Second-deadliest continuous tornado outbreak in US history. Several strong and deadly tornadoes were observed across the South. Two of the individual tornadoes killed well over 200 people each. (12 significant, 3 violent ...
On the morning of April 6, 1936, a devastating tornado hit the Cooper Pants Factory, located in Gainesville, Georgia.The tornado, which received a rating of F4 on the Fujita scale, initiated a partial collapse of the factory, which sparked a fire that trapped up to 125 workers inside, killing over seventy of those who were trapped in the rubble.
On April 5, 1936, an F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 216 people. The tornado was part of a tornado outbreak that spawned more than a dozen tornadoes on April 5 and 6 of that year.
1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak, (Grazulis, p. 865) 5: Gainesville, Georgia: 1936 April 6: 203 1,600 F4 At least 40 people were still missing in collapsed buildings when these figures were published, so the actual death toll may be much higher. 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak, (Grazulis, p. 866) 6
The March 21 outbreak is also nicknamed a Super Outbreak by the National Weather Service office in Birmingham, the only other episodes thusly designated being those of April 3, 1974, and April 27, 2011. While Alabama was the hardest-hit state with 86 fatalities, 75 of which were tornado-related, during the 1974 event, there were nearly three ...
In late 2023, American meteorologist and tornado expert Thomas P. Grazulis created the Outbreak Intensity Score (OIS) as a way to rank tornado outbreaks. [1] [2] For the score, only significant tornadoes are counted: F2/EF2 tornadoes receive 2 points each, F3/EF3 tornadoes receive 5 points each, F4/EF4 tornadoes receive 10 points each, and F5/EF5 tornadoes receive 15 points each. [1]
1908 Dixie tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of June 5–6, 1916; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 25 – June 1, 1917; April 1920 tornado outbreak; 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of March 16–17, 1942; Tornado outbreak of February 12, 1945; Tornado outbreak of March 26–27, 1950; Tornado outbreak of April 28 ...