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FYI J-Rab I just edited the post again with more links so feel free to refresh:The tornadoes that go through Northern Alabama also have a tendency to cross into far southern Tennessee (Lincoln and Franklin County, specifically) before dissipating. The second 1974 Tanner tornado did damage in Franklin and Lincoln TN before lifting and its TN portion is not that far off from 2011 Hackleburg.
That April 1920 tornado outbreak is remarkable for its similarities between 4/2/7/11. There were 6 unofficial F4s that day (I'm sure at least half of them were actually F5s but couldn't be ranked as such due to the lack of damage photographs & for most of the structures they hit being frail sharecropper shacks or log cabins).
One F4 of that outbreak had a path through Neshoba & Winston County, MS, passing a short distance just south of Philadelphia, striking the Deemer community. It's path is very close to the 2011 Philadelphia tornado.
That long-track F4 you mention (the 130 miles one) is interesting in that the official termination of it's path is in Lawrence County, AL but that's simply because it lost detection near the Tennessee River. It may have crossed the river into Limestone County, AL and dissipated there or into far southern TN before dissipating, again, much like Hackleburg. Another interesting thing about this tornado is that it maintained its intensity for over 100 miles before finally losing strength when it was nearing the Tennessee River, this also happened with Hackleburg. If it continued into Tennessee then that would make it another Tri-State Tornado (or the Mississippi portion of the path was actually another tornado from a family or downburst damage) but ultimately there's no way to know for sure. I have some PDFs on that outbreak, I'll try to upload them later.
Link to only known damage from that day:
Parts 1 & 2 of the MWR on it: