Editing Gainesville, Georgia (section)

====Severe weather====
{{See also|Cooper Pants Factory fire}}
While Gainesville does not sit in [[Tornado Alley]], a region of the United States where severe weather is common, [[Supercell|supercell thunderstorms]] can sweep through any time between March and November, being primarily concentrated in the spring. Tornado watches are frequent in the spring and summer, with a warning appearing at least biannually, occasionally with more than one per year.

Tornado activity in the Gainesville area is above Georgia state average and is 108% greater than the overall U.S. average. Gainesville was the site of [[1903 Gainesville, Georgia tornado|a deadly F4 on June 1, 1903]], which killed 98 people. Gainesville was the site of the [[1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak|fifth deadliest tornado in U.S. history]] in 1936,<ref>{{cite web|title=The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery|url=http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/tornado/|publisher=Digital Library of Georgia|access-date=1 June 2016}}</ref> in which Gainesville was devastated and 203 people were killed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/killers.html|title=25 Deadliest U.S. Tornadoes|website=www.spc.noaa.gov}}</ref> In [[1974 Super Outbreak|April 1974]], an F4 tornado 22.6 miles away from the Gainesville city center killed six people and injured thirty. In December 1973, an F3 tornado 2.1 miles away from the city center injured twenty-one people. Both storms caused between $500,000 and $5,000,000 in property damages. On [[1998 Gainesville-Stoneville tornado outbreak|March 20, 1998]], an F3 tornado impacted the Gainesville metro area early in the morning, killing 12 people and injuring 171 others. Another F3 tornado later that day killed 2 other people and injured a further 27 people in the [[Stoneville, North Carolina|Stoneville]] area.