Candlestick Park Tornado

Infobox tornado outbreak
name = Candlestick Park Tornado
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date = March 3-4 1966
duration = 17 hours
fujitascale = F5
tornadoes = 4
total damages (USD) = $75.553 million (1966 USD) $501.67 million (2008 USD)
total fatalities = 58
areas affected = Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and North Carolina
enhanced =

The Candlestick Park tornado struck central Mississippi and western Alabama on March 3, 1966. [NCDC storm data] The storm is named for the Candlestick Park Shopping Center in the southwest part of Jackson, Mississippi, which was completely destroyed. [Fairly, Kenneth. "Candlestick Is Flattened," Greenville (MS) "Delta Democrat-Times", Friday March 4, 1966.] 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 convert|200|mi|km|0 long across seven Mississippi and three Alabama counties, causing 58 fatalities and 518 injuries before dissipating northeast of Tuscaloosa. [ [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/events/CandlestickPark/Mon.php NWS Jackson, MS ] ] The author Lorian Hemingway has documented the devastation of South Jackson by the Candlestick Park Tornado in her 2002 book "A World Turned Over". [cite news |title=The Perfect Storm |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE3D6163AF933A15753C1A9649C8B63 |work=The New York Times |date=2002-10-20 |accessdate=2008-06-04 ]

Confirmed tornadoes

Tornado Chart
Total = 4
F0 = 0
F1 = 3
F2 = 0
F3 = 0
F4 = 0
F5 = 1
Enhanced =

March 3 event

ee also

*List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks

References