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The 1974 Super Outbreak was the first tornado outbreak in recorded history to produce more than 100 tornadoes in under a 24-hour period, a feat that was not repeated globally until the 1981 United Kingdom tornado outbreak [6] and in the United States until the 2011 Super Outbreak.
31.3 miles (50.4 km) 1,300 yards (1,200 m) 32 deaths – See article on this tornado – The tornado caused more than 1,150 injuries, the most of any tornado in the outbreak. Believed to be among the strongest of the seven F5 tornadoes in the outbreak. [1] F4: W of Blountsville to NE of Parker City: Henry, Delaware, Randolph, Jay: IN: 20:35 18 ...
Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Super Outbreak, the 24-hour period between April 3 and April 4 during which 148 tornadoes touched down in 13 different states. Thirty-nine people ...
Part of the 1974 Super Outbreak and Tornadoes of 1974 F5 tornado in 1974 In the afternoon hours of April 3,1974, a large and destructive tornado would move through Central Kentucky and southern Indiana , striking several communities along a 32 miles (51 km) path and devastating the town of Brandenburg, Kentucky .
The tornado - on April 3, 1974 ... afternoon was part of one of the biggest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history. Over a 24-hour period on April 3 and 4, more than 140 tornadoes were reported in 13 ...
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
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.
A brief tornado touched down in Indiana’s Boone County on the morning of April 3, 1974, according to the NWS. This marked the beginning of Indiana’s largest tornado outbreak in history.