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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 ...
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.
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.
The spring of 1936 brought Tupelo one of its worst-ever natural disasters, part of the Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak of April 5–6 in that year. [34] The storm leveled 48 city blocks and over 200 homes, killing 216 people and injuring more than 700 persons. [ 35 ]
April 18, 1936 (Saturday) Leeds defeated Warrington 18-2 in front of 51,250 at Wembley Stadium to win the Challenge Cup of rugby. [ 29] Rangers F.C. defeated Third Lanark in the 1935–36 Scottish Cup Final. The Irwin Shaw anti-war play Bury the Dead premiered at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.
In early 1936, after a visit with local banking officials, Chapman decided to sell the 16-acre campus to the city of Tupelo to be used as a state-sponsored junior college. On April 5, 1936, the campus was not damaged and the cadets were unharmed by the 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak, one of the most destructive in state history. [1]
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
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