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1932 Deep South tornado outbreak
Tornado outbreak
Tornadoes
≥ 38
Maximum rating
F4 tornado
Duration
March 21–22, 1932
Overall effects
Fatalities
> 330
Injuries
2,141
Damage
≥ $4.34 million ($96,920,000 in 2024 USD)[nb 1]
Areas affected
Midwestern and Southern United States
Part of the tornadoes and tornado outbreaks of 1932
On March 21–22, 1932, a deadly tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern and Southern United States. At least 38 tornadoes—including 27 deadly tornadoes and several long-lived tornado families—struck the Deep South, killing more than 330 people and injuring 2,141. Tornadoes affected areas from Mississippi north to Illinois and east to South Carolina, but Alabama was hardest hit, with 268 fatalities;[1] the outbreak is considered to be the deadliest ever in Alabama, and among the worst ever in the United States, trailing only the Tri-State tornado outbreak in 1925, with 751 fatalities, and the Tupelo–Gainesville outbreak in 1936, with 454 fatalities. The 1932 outbreak is believed to have produced 10 violent tornadoes, eight of which occurred in Alabama alone.[nb 2]
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^"Top 10 Weather Events in the 20th Century For Alabama". www.weather.gov. National Weather Service Birmingham AL. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
^Schneider, Russell S.; Brooks, Harold E.; Schaefer, Joseph T. (2004). Tornado Outbreak Day Sequences: Historic Events and Climatology (1875–2003)(PDF). 22nd Conf. Severe Local Storms. Hyannis, Massachusetts: American Meteorological Society. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
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