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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.
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.
Tracks of the 1974 Super Outbreak's 147 known tornadoes in the United States and fatalities by county. This is the list of tornadoes confirmed that occurred during the record-breaking 1974 Super Outbreak tornado event that occurred on April 3–4, 1974 across the eastern half of the United States and in Ontario, Canada.
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. ... F4 tornado on ...
Fifty years ago, on April 3, 1974, a “Super Outbreak” hit the Midwest. Over a 24-hour period, a total of 148 tornadoes touched down across 13 states in a swath from Alabama to Ontario, Canada.
On April 3, 1974, an F4 tornado traveled more than 20 miles between Jefferson ... between the tornadoes that happened more than 50 years ago and the ones experienced on Tuesday, but said that past ...
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. It was considered the worst such outbreak in U.S. history for nearly 40 years. It's now second behind a 2011 outbreak. State and federal ...
Part of the 1974 Super Outbreak and Tornadoes of 1974 In the afternoon hours of April 3, 1974, a small but powerful tornado would move through three states, including Kentucky , Ohio and Indiana . The tornado hit the Cincinnati metropolitan area and areas to the northeast of the metroplex, killing five people and injuring over two hundred more.