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The second-largest tornado outbreak on record at the time, this deadly series of tornadoes, which became known as the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, inflicted a swath of destruction from Cedar County, Iowa, to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and a swath 450 miles long (724 km) from Kent County, Michigan, to Montgomery County, Indiana.
On April 11, 1965, the southern part of Kokomo was struck by one of the 47 tornadoes that erupted over six Midwestern states, an event now known as the Palm Sunday outbreak. [79] The F4 tornado that swept through Kokomo was 800 yards (730 m) wide and killed 25 people in the surrounding area. [ 80 ]
On April 10–12, 1965, a devastating severe weather event, known as the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, affected the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. The outbreak produced at least 55 confirmed tornadoes, 18 of which were retrospectively considered to be violent on the Fujita scale. Only the 1974 Super Outbreak featured a larger number ...
Fatal United States tornadoes in 1965. 1965 picked up where 1964 left off, becoming the most active year on record at the time. A total of 31 violent (F4 and F5) tornadoes also touched down, which was also a record, with 17 of the F4 tornadoes occurring during the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak.
On Palm Sunday, April 11, 1965, a large outbreak of tornadoes struck the Midwest. The most famous pair of tornadoes devastated the Midway Trailer Park (now inside the city limits of Goshen), and the Sunnyside Housing Addition in Dunlap, Indiana. Another, smaller F4 tornado also struck neighborhoods on the southeast side of Goshen on the same day.
On May 5–8, 1965, a significant tornado outbreak [nb 1][nb 2] affected much of the Central United States. For four consecutive days, tornado outbreaks produced at least three significant (F2+) tornadoes each day, and at least two violent (F4–F5) tornadoes on three of the four days. The entire sequence generated 37 significant tornadoes ...
List of tornadoes in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, (Grazulis, p. 1,063) Drumright—Olive—Oak Grove (Pawnee County)—Skiatook, Oklahoma: 1974 June 8: 14 150 F4 Tornado outbreak of June 8, 1974, (Grazulis, p. 1,165) Greensboro, North Carolina: 1936 April 2: 14 144 F4 1936 Cordele-Greensboro tornado outbreak, (Grazulis, p. 865)
The National Weather Service confirmed Sunday that what came through Garner was an EF1 tornado with maximum winds of 110 mph. It touched down at about 12:28 p.m., meteorologists say, and was on ...