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Public Information Statement

National Weather Service Wichita KS

612 AM CDT Sat Mar 21 2026



...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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