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On April 21–24, 1968, a deadly tornado outbreak struck portions of the Midwestern United States, primarily along the Ohio River Valley.The worst tornado was an F5 that struck portions of Southeastern Ohio from Wheelersburg to Gallipolis, just north of the Ohio–Kentucky state line, killing seven people and injuring at least 93.
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Aside from the Dayton tornado, numerous weaker EF0-EF2 tornadoes formed during the outbreak, with one tornado in particular striking to the north of the town of Celina, injuring eight and killing one. The Celina tornado was rated EF3, and managed to lift a house off its foundation and drop it in a field 70 yards away, leaving the house ...
That figure is inflated somewhat by 2011, when one of the costliest and deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded claimed the lives of at least 553 people, including more than 150 in one Missouri ...
A violent tornado, which may have started in Kentucky, damaged or destroyed 550 homes in Wheelersburg, Ohio, killing 7 people and destroyed more homes in Gallipolis. This tornado was officially rated F5, but its rating is disputed as tornado expert Thomas P. Grazulis assigned a rating of F4. A long-tracked F4 tornado traveled more than 70 miles ...
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Xenia, Ohio, east of Dayton, was devastated by an F5 tornado, the highest measure on the Fijuta scale. Winds of 300 mph ripped through town, killing 32 people and damaging thousands of homes.
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, 1971; 1974 Cincinnati tornado; List of tornadoes in the 1974 Super Outbreak; 1974 Super Outbreak; Tornado outbreak of April 1–2, 1974; 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak