Great Natchez Tornado

The Great Natchez Tornado on May 7, 1840 destroyed large parts of the city of Natchez , Mississippi , as well as many flat boats on the Mississippi . The cyclone killed a total of 317 people in Mississippi and Louisiana . According to the Fujita scale, which did not exist at the time, it would have been classified as F5.

Only the tri-state tornado and, depending on the count, the East St. Louis tornado claimed more deaths in the United States . The damage is estimated at $ 5 million (equivalent to $ 107 million in 2008).

Web links

Stanley Nelson: The Great Natchez Tornado of 1840. Natchez City Cemetery, December 13, 2004, accessed April 14, 2014 (article from The Concordia Sentinel ).

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Dale-Marie Bryan: Tornadoes . ABDO, 2014, ISBN 978-1-61783-940-5 , pp. 42 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Patrick S. Roberts: Disasters and the American State . How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected. Cambridge University Press, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-02586-8 , pp. 18th f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[tornadoes-1] A ^b Dale-Marie Bryan: Tornadoes . ABDO, 2014, ISBN 978-1-61783-940-5 , pp. 42 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] Patrick S. Roberts: Disasters and the American State . How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected. Cambridge University Press, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-02586-8 , pp. 18th f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).