1936 Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak

!colspan="7"|April 1, 1936

|Athens

|Clarke

|0100

|unknown

|Damage in one neighborhood, with a church destroyed.

|Tignall to Lincolnton

|Wilkes, Lincoln

|0130

|{{convert|20|mi|km}}

|5 deaths — A tornado killed five people as it destroyed 10 homes and damaged 30 in Tignall. The courthouse and 50 homes were damaged in Lincolnton and nearby farms also reported damage. Cattle were killed and five barns and a store wrecked.{{cite journal|title=Severe Local Storms|journal=Monthly Weather Review|year=1936|volume=64|issue=4 |pages=156–158|doi=10.1175/1520-0493(1936)64<156:SLSA>2.0.CO;2|url=http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/064/mwr-064-04-0156.pdf|accessdate=18 April 2013|editor1-first=Mary|editor1-last=Souder|publisher=United States Weather Bureau|location=Washington, D.C.|bibcode = 1936MWRv...64..156. |doi-access=free}} The section of the path in Lincolnton, which was widest and weakest, may have been another tornado by a separate thunderstorm.{{cite journal|last=Kincer|first=J. B.|title=Tornado Disasters in the Southeastern States, April 1936|journal=Monthly Weather Review|date=May 1936|volume=64|issue=5 |page=168 |doi=10.1175/1520-0493(1936)64<168:TDITSS>2.0.CO;2|url=http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/064/mwr-064-05-0168.pdf|accessdate=18 April 2013|publisher=U.S. Weather Bureau|location=Washington, D.C.|bibcode = 1936MWRv...64..168K |doi-access=free}}

|N of Gordo

|Pickens

|0500

|{{convert|4|mi|km}}

|1 death — Five homes were destroyed and one woman killed in the small community of Hannah's Church, {{convert|7|mi|km}} to the north of Gordo.

!colspan="7"|April 2, 1936

|Sasser area

|Terrell

|1130

|{{convert|5|mi|km}}

|1 death — Tenant homes were destroyed southwest and northeast of Sasser. The tornado unroofed large homes and threw about debris as it hit downtown Sasser. This tornado and the subsequent Leesburg and Cordele tornadoes were produced by the same supercell.

|Dawson area

|Terrell

|1145

|

|1 death — Tornado reported at Dawson.

|N of Leesburg

|Lee, Sumter

|1200

|{{convert|15|mi|km}}

|1 death — Six homes were destroyed as the tornado passed {{convert|2|mi|km}} north of Neyami and into Sumter County. Losses reached $4,300.

|Cordele area

|Crisp

|1230

|{{convert|15|mi|km}}

|23 deaths — A large and violent tornado developed {{convert|7|mi|km}} southwest of Cordele and moved into the business district. It destroyed 276 homes and damaged 165, causing ~$3 million in damage in the town. At least 11 other buildings were also damaged. "Many of the finest houses were torn to splinters..."

|Lodge

|Colleton

|1330

|{{convert|1|mi|km}}

|1 death — Brief tornado touchdown destroyed a farm in Lodge, between Barnwell and Walterboro.

|Hampton

|Hampton

|unknown

|

|1 death

|Concord

|Mecklenburg, Cabarrus

|2230

|

|Businesses and homes heavily damaged (with at least one building destroyed) near downtown Concord.

|Greensboro area

|Guilford

|0012

|{{convert|11|mi|km}}

|14 deaths — A tornado produced F4 damage through the southern part of downtown Greensboro. 56 buildings were completely destroyed, with 233 more damaged. ~$2 million in damage.

|N of Mebane

|Alamance, Orange

|0040

|{{convert|3|mi|km}}

|1 death — Passed {{convert|1|mi|km}} north of Mebane. Three small homes were destroyed and five people were injured. The tornado may have also caused "slight" damage {{convert|3|mi|km}} to the north of Hillsborough. The parent supercell also produced the Warren County tornado.

|SE of Warrenton

|Warren

|0215

|

|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."