Reported Tornadoes
| F# | Location | County | Time (EST) | Path length | Damage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | ||||||
| F? | Athens | Clarke | 08:00 PM | Damage in one neighborhood, with a church destroyed. | ||
| F? | Tignall | Wilkes | 08:30 PM | Heavy damage to buildings in town; damage to nearby farms. | ||
| F4 | Washington, Lincolnton | Wilkes, Lincoln | 09:00 PM | 2 Deaths in Washington, 50 buildings heavily damaged in Lincolnton. | ||
| F2 | Dawson, Sasser | Terrell | 06:45 AM | 2 Deaths in Dawson and Sasser. Path up to 500 yds in width. This tornado, and the subsequent Leesburg and Cordele tornadoes were produced by the same supercell. | ||
| F2 | Leesburg | Lee | 07:00 AM | 1 Death. | ||
| F4 | Cordele | Crisp | 08:00 AM | 23 deaths, 500+ inj. Large and violent tornado destroyed 276 homes and 11 other buildings buildings and damaging 165 structures, causing ~$3 million in damage in the town, in 1936 dollars. "Many of the finest houses were torn to splinters..." | ||
| South Carolina | ||||||
| F1 | Lodge | Colleton | 08:30 AM | 1 Death. Brief tornado touchdown destroys a farm in Lodge, between Barnwell and Walterboro. | ||
| F? | Hampton | Hampton | unk | 1 Death. | ||
| North Carolina | ||||||
| F? | Concord | Mecklenburg,
Cabarrus |
05:30 PM | Businesses and homes heavily damaged (with at least 1 building destroyed) near downtown Concord. | ||
| F4 | Greensboro | Guilford | 07:00 PM | 14 deaths, 144+ inj. Tornado leaves F4 damage along a 7-mile-long path (up to 800 yds in width) through the southern part of downtown Greensboro; 56 buildings completely destroyed, with many 233 more damaged. ~$2 million in damage, in 1936 dollars. | ||
| F2 | N of Mebane to N of Efland | Alamance, Orange | 07:40 PM | 1 Death, 4 inj. A 6-mile-long path was left just north of the towns of Mebane and Efland, with severe non-tornadic wind damage continuing NE of Hillsborough. This supercell also produced the Warren County tornado. | ||
| F? | 10 SE of Warrenton | Warren | 09:15 PM | An eyewitness in the Warren County community of Arcola noted that "a heavy cloud and a loud roar passed north of me at 9:15 P.M." | ||
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