The Great Natchez tornado hit Natchez, Mississippi, on Thursday, May 7, 1840. The tornado was the second-deadliest tornado in United States history; at...

F5, with 216 deaths, and the 1840 Natchez tornado, with 317 deaths. The first of two major, long-tracked, violent tornadoes first began at about 5:00 a...

were damaged. 1840 Natchez tornado Grenada County, Mississippi was not established until 1870. Stokes (1929), pp. 87. "Killer Tornado Grenada, MS 1846"...

This article lists various tornado records. The most "extreme" tornado in recorded history was the Tri-State tornado, which spread through parts of Missouri...

Jackson's "negro speculation" slave sales took place in Mississippi's Natchez District, Louisiana's Feliciana Parishes, and in New Orleans. Jackson seems...

Presbyterian Church of Natchez Great Natchez Tornado Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture Natchez National Cemetery Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill...

Natchez Light was a lighthouse on the Mississippi River that was built in 1825 and then destroyed in 1840 by a tornado. "Foghorn Publishing ... Lighthouse...

fifth-deadliest tornado to affect the U.S. state of Mississippi, behind the 1840 Great Natchez Tornado, the 1936 tornado in Tupelo, the 1971 tornado in Cary,...

deadliest tornadoes in world history. This list includes confirmed individual tornadoes that caused 100 or more direct fatalities. The deadliest tornadoes by...

pre-payment of postage from May 6. May 7 – Great Natchez Tornado: A massive tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi during the early afternoon. Before it...

to near Weldon, North Carolina. May 7 – The Great Natchez Tornado: A massive tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi during the early afternoon hours. Before...

Tennessee with 271 fatalities. Tornado disasters to affect the southern USA include the Great Natchez Tornado of May 1840 – second deadliest on record in...

On May 7, 1840, an intense tornado struck Natchez, killing 269 people, most of whom were on flatboats in the Mississippi River. The tornado killed 317...

third deadliest tornado in American history, outflanked only by the 1840 Great Natchez Tornado and the 1896 St. Louis-East St. Louis tornado. Since 1899,...

The following is a list of the deadliest tornadoes in the Americas including Canada, Mexico, and the United States as well as the countries and islands...

The 1835 Middlesex County tornado, touching down on June 19, 1835, was the deadliest tornado recorded in New Jersey's history. It destroyed all but two...

justice and first cousin to John Quitman's wife Eliza. After a tornado ravaged Natchez in 1840, John McMurran began planning a grand mansion on the outskirts...

These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred in North America. The listing is U.S.-centric,...

other buildings destroyed in the tornado of 1840. Today the house is part of the National Historical Park of Natchez, Mississippi. Front facing, 2017...

359 tornadoes in the United States, and Environment Canada confirmed another in Ontario. These tornadoes were part of a major outbreak of tornadoes, the...

these included the Fort Smith tornado, which struck the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Retroactively rated a violent (F4) tornado on the modern-day Fujita scale...

" C. F. Hatcher & Co. donated $100 to a fund for victims of the 1840 Natchez tornado. In 1841 Hatcher sold treasury warrants, and dissolved his partnership...

139 die, only four survive. May 7, 1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado: A massive tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, during the early afternoon hours. Before...

forecast offices of the National Weather Service confirmed at least 399 tornadoes across the United States, activity well beyond climatological norms. Based...

Ballard. One of his plantations was in the path of the Great Natchez Tornado of 1840, and several enslaved people bound there were killed: "M. Lapice...

The 1944 South Dakota–Minnesota tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that occurred on June 17, 1944, in portions of northeastern South Dakota...

produced a total of 81 tornadoes, cementing its status as the second-largest January tornado outbreak and the third-largest winter tornado outbreak since 1950...

An unseasonably strong tornado outbreak began on January 7, 2008, and continued for nearly four days across the Central and Southern United States, with...

Central Federal District, and Northwestern Federal District in Russia) 1984 10. 317 The Great Natchez Tornado United States (Mississippi–Louisiana) 1840...

killer tornadoes. On May 18, 1995 a F4 tornado struck the county. On April 16, 1998, an F5 tornado hit the county, part of the 1998 Nashville tornado outbreak...