Most of these records are limited to significant tornadoes; those rated F2 or higher on the Fujita scale, or which caused a fatality.
[note 2] The first day of a small but violent three-day tornado outbreak occurred in Texas, which killed 47 people and injuring at least 412 others.
[1][6] In Texas, a narrow F2 tornado passed near Decatur, derailing three train cars and causing injuries.
The same storm system produced a devastating F4 tornado in Nacogdoches, where 80 homes were destroyed, 150 others damaged, and six fatalities occurred.
On January 6, an F4 tornado devastated Ashley and Chicot Counties in Arkansas, leveling homes and plantations, causing three deaths, and injuring 50 individuals.
The tornado killed one person, injured 15 others, destroyed 50 homes and damaged 1,700 other structures along a path of 4 miles (6.4 km).
[5][7] An hour after the Terrace Park F2, a second brief F2 unroofed a large home southeast of Lakeland, Florida, as it traveled along a short path of 0.5 miles (0.80 km) with a width of 100 yards (91 m).
[5][7] An F2 tornado struck near Kewanee, in Mississippi, where it injured one person and destroyed a small home, a church, and multiple barns.
[5][10] A tornado struck the city of Timber Lake in South Dakota, causing $150,000 (1946 USD) in property damage along a path of 6 miles (9.7 km).
This tornado did not receive an estimated rating on the Fujita scale from Thomas P. Grazulis, meaning it was believed to have been F0 or F1 intensity.
[5] Later in the day, an F3 tornado curved around Eufaula, Oklahoma, where it killed one person, injured five others and damaged or destroyed 18 homes.
South of Champion, numerous homes were damaged, and three were leveled southeast of the community, where a woman was killed, and two injuries occurred.
At one of the destroyed homes, a man was killed by the tornado, and his wife was severely injured, though it is noted, she may have died from her injuries.
Along the path, a "prominent elderly couple" was killed when their new ranch home was leveled along with all of their barns by the tornado northeast of Bowie, Texas.
The tornado started near Seven Springs, passing near Kinston before ending its 25 miles (40 km) path near Grifton, North Carolina.
The first F4 tornado struck near the community of Enosdale, where two farm houses were completely swept away, with a woman being killed in one of the farmhouses.
[5] An F3 tornado struck Holmes Park, Kansas City, Missouri, which killed two people and injured five others.
[5] An F4 tornado struck near Granger, Texas, where multiple homes "literally vanished" and one person was killed.
[8] A tornado, rated F2 by the European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL), struck Bucuresti, Romania.
[8] A few hours later, a large, deadly tornado, rated F3 by the European Severe Storms Laboratory, struck Stronie Śląskie and Stójków in Poland, killing one person and leaving ten missing.
The European Severe Storms Laboratory documented the path length of the tornado at 20 kilometres (12 mi) with an average width of 1,000 metres (1,100 yd).
[14] A tornado, rated F2 by the European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL), struck Caravaca de la Cruz, Spain.