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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.
This half-mile (0.8 km) wide F4 tornado developed (as part of a tornado family that moved from Illinois to Michigan for 260 miles) during the late afternoon hours. This tornado produced the longest damage path recorded during the 1974 Super Outbreak, on a southwest to northeast path that nearly crossed the entire state of Indiana.
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 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 F5 tornado touched down just before 4:40 p.m. on April 3, 1974 in the southwestern part of Xenia that included the center of town. There were 32 people killed and ...
The tornado - on April 3, 1974 ... In all, more than 300 people were killed during the two days of tornadoes, including 32 in Xenia, Ohio, about 100 miles southeast of Parker City.
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.
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.