1932 Deep South tornado outbreak
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 110 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5090-2564-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1932 Deep South tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that struck the Southern United States on March 21–22, 1932. In all, at least 36 tornadoes struck the Deep South, but it is probable that others developed as members of tornado families. The entire outbreak killed at least 334 people and produced tornadoes from Mississippi to South Carolina, and as far north as Illinois. Alabama was hardest hit, with 268 fatalities; the outbreak is considered to be the deadliest ever in that U.S. state, and among the worst ever in the United States, trailing only the Tri-State Tornado outbreak in 1925, with 747 fatalities, the Tupelo-Gainesville outbreak in 1936, with 454 fatalities. The 1932 outbreak produced 10 violent tornadoes, classified F4 or F5 on the Fujita scale of tornado intensity based upon damage, and is surpassed only by the April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak, with 15 violent tornadoes; the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak,...