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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.
3 deaths – See section on this tornado – Path paralleled that of an EF4 tornado in 2011 that affected nearby Cordova. F3: S of Ellisburg to NE of Danville: Casey, Lincoln, Boyle: KY: 23:35 21.1 miles (34.0 km) 1 death – Over 100 homes were heavily damaged or destroyed in Junction City. Damage figures were estimated at $5 million in ...
The path of the second tornado, which formed at 7:35 pm CDT was 83 miles in length, also had a peak width of 500 yards, and the storm formed along the north bank Tennessee River less than a mile from the path of the earlier storm; with much of its path very closely paralleling its predecessor as it tore through Limestone and Madison Counties ...
The Xenia tornado was the deadliest and most powerful of what was later labeled the 1974 Super Outbreak, a series of 148 tornadoes that touched down across 13 states over 24 hours between April 3 ...
The front page of The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 4, 1974, reporting on the tornadoes in Xenia, Sayler Park and other sites in the region during the tornado outbreak. One man said it was like the ...
Afterward, President Richard Nixon made an unannounced visit to Xenia as the Watergate scandal unfolded in Washington. The Xenia tornado was the deadliest and most powerful of what was later labeled the 1974 Super Outbreak, a series of 148 tornadoes that touched down across 13 states over 24 hours between April 3 and April 4.
Paul L. Schmetzer's view of the storm that spawned the F4 tornado on April 3, 1974. ... which is just 8 miles from Xenia, where 32 people died from that same tornado. ... Storms an eerie reminder ...
For many older residents, their first and likely most prominent tornado story is from April 3, 1974. "It was my first memory in ... Outbreak: Residents remember 1974 tornado outbreak 50 years later