{"id":11016,"date":"2017-05-07T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T00:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11016"},"modified":"2017-05-07T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T00:34:52","slug":"the-natchez-tornado-of-1840","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/05\/the-natchez-tornado-of-1840\/","title":{"rendered":"The Natchez tornado of 1840"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second deadliest tornado in history happened in Natchez MS on May 7, 1840. \u00a0A large and powerful tornado went right through the center of town, flattening most of the buildings. \u00a0But even worse was the damage on the Mississippi River, which was filled with boats, including 120 flatboats and a steam boat. \u00a0Many bodies were never identified and the count of deaths is uncertain. \u00a0You can read more about it a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ustornadoes.com\/2017\/05\/07\/natchez-ms-tornado-1840\/\">t https:\/\/www.ustornadoes.com\/2017\/05\/07\/natchez-ms-tornado-1840\/<\/a>\u00a0.Thanks to &#8220;This Day in Weather History&#8221; on Facebook for pointing it out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11017\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/lloydssteamboatd00lloy_pg141_pic-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11017\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/lloydssteamboatd00lloy_pg141_pic-1-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/lloydssteamboatd00lloy_pg141_pic-1-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/lloydssteamboatd00lloy_pg141_pic-1-197x138.png 197w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/lloydssteamboatd00lloy_pg141_pic-1.png 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A conceptual drawing of the steamboat Hinds being capsized by the Natchez Tornado. Printed in Lloyd\u2019s Steamboat Disasters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second deadliest tornado in history happened in Natchez MS on May 7, 1840. \u00a0A large and powerful tornado went right through the center of town, flattening most of the buildings. \u00a0But even worse was the damage on the Mississippi River, which was filled with boats, including 120 flatboats and a steam boat. \u00a0Many bodies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11018,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions\/11018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}