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The worst tornado-caused death toll in a single building in U.S. history was at the Cooper Pants Factory. [ 21 ] President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke from a train platform in Gainesville on April 9, after the devastating tornado struck the town a few days earlier.
The number of people harmed was reduced due to many workers attending picnics away from the site when the tornado struck. [4] [11] Almost 33 years later, on April 6, 1936, another violent tornado struck Gainesville, claiming at least 203 lives. Gainesville is the only town of its size to be so devastated twice by tornadoes in its history. [13]
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.
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
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
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 ...
Gainesville was the site of a deadly F4 on June 1, 1903, which killed 98 people. Gainesville was the site of the fifth deadliest tornado in U.S. history in 1936, [13] in which Gainesville was devastated and 203 people were killed. [14] In April 1974, an F4 tornado 22.6 miles away from the Gainesville city center killed six people and injured ...
Enigma tornado outbreak; 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