Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Tornado damage in Lorain, Ohio The Xenia, Ohio tornado from the 1974 Super Outbreak. This tornado was rated by Ted Fujita himself as an F6 , but it was retroactively downgraded to F5 [ 1 ] Tornadoes in the state of Ohio are relatively uncommon, with roughly 16 tornadoes touching down every year since 1804, the year with the first recorded event ...
The Ohio tornado on April 3, 1974, killed 34 people in Xenia, making it the deadliest single tornado of that day's Super Outbreak. Ohio has a long history of deadly, destructive tornadoes .
It's official—2024 is now the worst year in Ohio history for tornadoes. What to know, including the Huron County path of the record-setting twister.
The 1974 Xenia tornado was a violent F5 tornado that destroyed a large portion of Xenia and Wilberforce, Ohio, United States on the afternoon of April 3, 1974. It was the deadliest individual tornado of the 1974 Super Outbreak, the 24-hour period between April 3 and April 4, 1974, during which 148 tornadoes touched down in 13 different U.S. states.
Until now, the worst year for tornadoes in Ohio was 1992, when 62 twisters touched down, Peloquin said. The strongest that year was an EF4 tornado that hit Van Wert County in Western Ohio on Feb ...
Tornado outbreak sequence of May 3–9, 1961; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 14–31, 1962; 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak; List of tornadoes in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of April 21–24, 1968; Tornado outbreak of May 1968; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 10–16, 1970; Tornado outbreak of February 21–22 ...
These three confirmations bring Ohio's tornado total for the year to 61. The worst year for tornadoes in Ohio was 1992, when 62 twisters touched down, according to Brandon Peloquin, warning ...
The Xenia, Ohio, F5 tornado of April 3, 1974.This was one of two tornadoes to receive a preliminary rating of F6, which was downgraded later to a rating of F5. [1]This is a list of tornadoes which have been officially or unofficially labeled as F5, EF5, IF5, T10-T11, the highest possible ratings on the various tornado intensity scales.