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1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak; Type: Tornado outbreak: Duration: April 5–6, 1936: Tornadoes confirmed: ≥ 14: Max. rating 1: F5 tornado: Duration of tornado outbreak 2: 18 hours: Fatalities: ≥ 454 fatalities, >2,498 injuries: Damage: ≥ $15.9 million (1936 USD) ≥ $349 million (2025 USD) Areas affected: Southern United States
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: 84 2 7 3 1 14+ 454+ 2,498 + Tornado outbreak of November 23–24, 2001: 83 19 3 3 0 69 13 219 [1] April 1920 tornado outbreak: 82 6 2 6 0 17+ 243+ 1,374 + Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021: 82 16 6 2 0 71 89 676 [1] [41] 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak: 81 13 3 1 2 48 102 554
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ]
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