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This page documents the tornadoes and tornado outbreaks of 1966, primarily in the United States. Most tornadoes form in the U.S., although some events may take place internationally. Tornado statistics for older years like this often appear significantly lower than modern years due to fewer reports or confirmed tornadoes.
A series of at least four tornadoes hit the Southeastern United States during March 3-4, 1966. The worst event was a violent and long-lived F5 tornado, dubbed the Candlestick Park tornado after the name of a recently opened Jackson, Mississippi shopping center that was leveled by the storm. [2]
The Tornado outbreak sequence of June 1966 [nb 1] [nb 2] was a series of tornado outbreaks which occurred between June 2 and June 12. The nearly two week event of severe weather was mainly concentrated in the Midwestern (Great Plains) region of the United States, but was widely spread out to areas as far south as Texas and Florida, and as far east as New York.
Since the devastating 1966 Topeka tornado, improvements in tornado safety and preparedness help make Topekans safer from storms today. A Topeka tornado killed 16 in 1966. Here are seven ...
A squall line affected the central Florida peninsula on April 4, and both tornadoes originated as waterspouts over the Gulf of Mexico.The two tornadoes, moving generally east-northeastward at estimated speeds of up to 60 mph (97 km/h), were spawned from a single thunderstorm that entered the Tampa Bay region, and they are believed to have represented a tornado family.
This is a list of tornadoes which have been officially or unofficially labeled as F4 in the 1960s. The Fujita scale attempts to estimate the intensity of a tornado by classifying the damage caused to natural features and man-made structures in the tornado's path. A famous photo of an F4 tornado in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak.
History from the front pages of The Cincinnati Enquirer from August 10 includes a "forgotten" tornado and the Manson murders.
1966 Candlestick Park tornado outbreak: March 3–4, 1966: Louisiana – Mississippi – Alabama – North Carolina: 4: 58 fatalities, 521 injuries: Outbreak produced the Candlestick Park tornado, which was an extremely violent F5 tornado or tornado family that killed 58 people and traveled 202.5 mi (325.9 km) across Mississippi and Alabama. It ...