Candlestick Park Tornado

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Candlestick Park Tornado
Date of tornado outbreak: March 3-4
Duration1: 17 hours
Maximum rated tornado2: F5 tornado
Tornadoes caused: 4
Damages: $75.553 million (1966 USD) $501.67 million (2008 USD)
Fatalities: 58
Areas affected: Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and North Carolina

1Time from first tornado to last tornado
2Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita Scale


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[edit] Candlestick Park tornado

The Candlestick Park tornado struck central Mississippi and western Alabama on March 3, 1966.[1] The storm is named for the Candlestick Park Shopping Center in the southwest part of Jackson, Mississippi, which was completely destroyed.[2] After passing through Jackson, leaving F5 damage in its wake, the storm (probably a very intense tornado family) left a nearly continual damage path over 200 miles (322 km) long across seven Mississippi and three Alabama counties, causing 58 fatalities and 518 injuries before dissipating northeast of Tuscaloosa.[3] The author Lorian Hemingway has documented the devastation of South Jackson by the Candlestick Park Tornado in her 2002 book "A World Turned Over".[4]

Outbreak death toll
State Total County County
total
Alabama 1 Pickens 1
Mississippi 57 Hinds 19
Leake 6
Neshoba 1
Rankin 5
Scott 26
Totals 58
All deaths were tornado-related

Confirmed tornadoes====

Confirmed
Total		 Confirmed
F0		 Confirmed
F1		 Confirmed
F2		 Confirmed
F3		 Confirmed
F4		 Confirmed
F5
4 0 3 0 0 0 1

[edit] March 3 event

List of reported tornadoes - Thursday, March 3, 1966
F#
County
Coord.
Time (UTC)
Path length
Damage
Louisiana
F1 Tensas 32°02′N 91°12′W / 32.03, -91.2 2100 1 mile (1.6 km) 1 Injury Brief touchdown, caused $2,500 in damages.
Mississippi
F5 Hinds, Rankin, Scott, Leake, Neshoba County, Mississippi, Kemper, Pickens (AL), Tuscaloosa (AL) 32°11′N 90°33′W / 32.18, -90.55 0030 202.5 miles (325.9 km) 58 Deaths 518 Injuries See section on this tornado
Alabama
F1 Jefferson 33°39′N 86°49′W / 33.65, -86.82 0200 0.1 miles (0.2 km) 2 Injuries Brief touchdown, caused $25,000 in damages.

[edit] March 4 event

List of reported tornadoes - Friday, March 4, 1966
F#
County
Coord.
Time (UTC)
Path length
Damage
North Carolina
F1 Bladen 34°30′N 78°38′W / 34.5, -78.63 1400 0.3 miles (0.5 km) Brief touchdown, caused $25,000 in damages.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ NCDC storm data
  2. ^ Fairly, Kenneth. "Candlestick Is Flattened," Greenville (MS) Delta Democrat-Times, Friday March 4, 1966.
  3. ^ NWS Jackson, MS
  4. ^ "The Perfect Storm", The New York Times, 2002-10-20. Retrieved on 2008-06-04. 
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