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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
700 AM CDT Thu Mar 21 2024

...ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY...

In 1932, an outbreak of 32 strong to violent tornadoes
tore through Alabama Mississippi Georgia and Tennessee.
The tornadoes killed around 335 and injured around 2,100.
Alabama was hardest hit, with around 270 killed, 1,800
injured and around $5 million damage.  There were ten F4
tornadoes, eight of which struck Alabama.  This outbreak
produced three of the deadliest tornadoes in Alabama
history.  The worst was an F4 in Central Alabama that
killed 49 and injured 150, along a track 60 miles long
that averaged one half mile wide.  A second F4, with a
track 20 miles long and around one quarter mile wide,
struck near Tuscaloosa killing 37 and injuring 200.  A
third F4, with a track 50 miles long and one half mile
wide, killed 31 and injured 200 in part of Central
Alabama.

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In 1952, much of the Deep South was smacked by a second
outbreak, this one of 31 tornadoes that ripped through
Arkansas Tennessee Missouri Mississippi Alabama and
Kentucky.  The twisters killed 343 people and caused
around $15 million damage.  Six of the twisters were
ferocious F4s, two of which had tracks 65 miles long and
nearly three fourths of a mile wide.  One F4 tornado with
a track 22 miles long and three quarters of a mile wide
struck North Central Arkansas where 50 were killed, 325
were injured and $3.5 million damage resulted.A second
F4 tornado that walloped parts of Western Tennessee
killed 38 and injured 157.  It caused $500,000 damage and
nearly leveled the town of Henderson.

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