Tornado outbreak of March 13–14, 1913

On March 13–14, 1913, a tornado outbreak affected portions of the south-central United States, killing at least 76 people and injuring 501 others. The deadliest tornado of the outbreak, retroactively rated F4 on the Fujita scale, killed 15 people in Georgia. A pair of long-lived F4s in Tennessee collectively claimed 16 more lives. An F3 in Louisiana killed nine more people, and an F3 in Georgia caused eight additional fatalities. An F2 tornado family in Mississippi inflicted half a dozen more deaths as well, as did an F3 family in Tennessee. Many tornadoes in the outbreak were both large and long-tracked.