1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi Tornado Outbreak (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado outbreak was a deadly severe weather event that affected northeastern Louisiana, southeastern Arkansas, and western Mississippi on December 5, 1953. At least four confirmed tornadoes touched down; one of the tornadoes produced F5 damage on the Fujita scale as it moved through the city of Vicksburg, causing 38 deaths in the area. It remains the fourth deadliest tornado to affect the U.S. state of Mississippi; behind the 1840 Natchez tornado, the 1936 Tupelo tornado - see Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak - and the March 3, 1966 Jackson tornado. It is one of four F5 tornadoes recorded in Mississippi since 1950.