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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 ...
Damage. $1,000,000 (1903 USD) $33.9 million (2024 USD) Areas affected. Gainesville, Georgia, United States. On Monday, June 1, 1903, a catastrophic tornado struck the city of Gainesville, Georgia, killing at least 98 people and injuring 180 or more. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The tornado is retrospectively estimated to have been an F4 on the modern-day ...
The tornado also caused damage near Tennant, Harlan, and Defiance before dissipating. [92] That night, an EF2 tornado prompted another PDS warning for Pleasant Hill southeast of Des Moines. Major damage to homes occurred and one person was injured. [93] [94] Low-end EF4 tornado damage to a Homeland Grocery Store in Marietta, Oklahoma.
A deadly tornado outbreak struck portions of the southeastern United States on March 20, 1998. Particularly hard hit were rural areas outside of Gainesville, Georgia, where at least 12 people were killed in an early morning F3 tornado. The entire outbreak killed 14 people and produced 12 tornadoes across three states with the town of Stoneville ...
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.
Hurricane Idalia. Hurricane Idalia was a powerful and destructive Category 4 hurricane that caused significant damage across parts of the southeastern United States, especially in North Florida, in late August 2023. The ninth named storm, [a] third hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, Idalia formed from a ...
On March 21–22, 1932, a deadly tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern and Southern United States. At least 38 tornadoes —including 27 deadly tornadoes and several long-lived tornado families —struck the Deep South, killing more than 330 people and injuring 2,141. Tornadoes affected areas from Mississippi north to Illinois and east to ...
Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes have canceled school for Friday, Sept. 13. Both districts currently are assessing damage to school buildings but plan to reopen Monday, Sept. 16, pending power to ...