FEBRUARY 24, 2026
HOSPITALITY SOCIAL: 5:30 PM
PROGRAM BEGINS: 6:00PM

Speaker: Pam N. Knox, Director of the University of Georgia Weather Network and an agricultural climatologist in UGA Extension.

She will speak on the deadly May 1840 tornado, considered the second deadliest tornado in U.S. history, with casualties numbering in the hundreds as it swept across plantations, farmland and the Mississippi River.

Photo: February Thumbnail
Natchez Downtown
L.A. Benoist Collection, Natchez