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The 1974 Super Outbreak was the second-largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period, just behind the 2011 Super Outbreak. It was also the most violent tornado outbreak ever recorded, with 30 violent (F4 or F5 rated) tornadoes confirmed.
Both of these tornadoes would receive an F5 rating on the Fujita scale, and were two out of seven F5-rated tornadoes to touch down as part of the 1974 Super Outbreak, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in United States history. Each of the tornadoes claimed over fifteen lives, and would kill a combined total of fifty-five people, many in the ...
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.
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.
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 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 ...
[nb 1] The outbreak ended approximately 30 hours before the Super Outbreak of 1974 began. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a total of 11 severe weather watches on April 1 alone. [ 3 ] These watches, along with the damage and deaths that followed, prompted alertness among the general public that may have reduced casualties and losses ...
This April marks the 50th anniversary when more than 100 tornadoes swept across Midwest within just about 24 hours. Dubbed the 1974 Super Outbreak, severe storms and 148 tornadoes claimed hundreds ...