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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 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 Fujita scale. [ 4][ nb 1] The tornado, which was of very brief duration relative to its intensity, lasted ...
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 ...
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 ...
In June 1903, J. B. Marbury, the director of the United States Weather Bureau office in Atlanta, Georgia, published a case study on a tornado which struck Gainesville, Georgia, on June 1, 1903. Marbury stated the tornado itself had a "characteristic greenish hue" and that it was "one of the most destructive tornadoes in the history of Georgia ...
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 ...
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
The first tornadoes of this outbreak were reported between 1 and 2 P.M. near Gainesville, Georgia and Toccoa, Georgia. During the mid-afternoon, severe storms began moving northeast into the northwest corner of South Carolina, spawning additional tornadoes in Oconee County. A damaged neighborhood after the Chesnee, South Carolina F4 tornado.