Today marks the anniversary of one of the Southeast’s biggest tornado outbreaks in history. From This Day in Weather History’s Facebook post: “Severe thunderstorms spawned sixty tornadoes in the southeastern U.S., killing between 178 and 1200 people and causing three million dollars damage. Georgia and the Carolinas were the hardest hit by the tornado outbreak.” You can read more about it at Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_tornado_outbreak. The map below is from John Finley’s 1887 book on historical tornadoes, which you can read more about at https://archive.org/details/tornadoeswhatthe00finl.
