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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 ...
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.
1936 Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak: April 1–2, 1936: Southeast: ≥13: 45 fatalities, 568 injuries: Produced multiple killer tornadoes in Georgia and the Carolinas. An F4 tornado in Cordele, Georgia, killed 23 people. (8 significant, 3 violent, 10 killer) 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: April 5–6, 1936: Southeastern ...
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
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.
March 1920: 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak (4 counties) [1] May 1929: 1929 Rye Cove, Virginia tornado outbreak [1] March 1932: 1932 Deep South tornado outbreak [1] April 1936: 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak [1] April 1956: April 1956 Birmingham tornado [1] April 1957: April 1957 Southeastern United States tornado outbreak
Enigma tornado outbreak. On February 19–20, 1884, one of the largest and most widespread tornado outbreaks in American history occurred over the Southeastern United States, known as the Enigma tornado outbreak due to the uncertain number of total tornadoes and fatalities. Nonetheless, an inspection of newspaper reports and governmental ...