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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.
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.
Paths of the 148 tornadoes generated during the 1974 Super Outbreak. The 1974 Super Outbreak was one of the most destructive tornado outbreaks ever known in United States history. Many notable tornadoes occurred, such as the Xenia, Ohio tornado which was an F5 tornado that killed 34 people and destroyed a large portion of the town. The Xenia ...
This marked the beginning of Indiana’s largest tornado outbreak in history. Another 20 tornadoes spun up across 45 other counties in the state between 2 and 8 p.m. that day. The tornadoes killed ...
The super-tornado outbreak of April 3 and 4, 1974, was the worst in U.S. history, with 148 twisters touching down in 13 states. When it had ended 16 hours later, 330 people were dead and 5,484 ...
The outbreak began when a powerful area of low pressure formed across the Great Plains on April 1 and moved into Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. As it did, a surge of very moist warm air intensified the storm. As a result, a series of tornado outbreaks occurred. The outbreak produced 23 confirmed tornadoes, three of which caused at least one ...
A Hebron man recalls how his family survived one of the worst tornado outbreaks in ... Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Super Outbreak, the 24-hour period between April 3 and April ...
On June 8, 1974, a significant tornado outbreak affected portions of the southern Great Plains and the Upper Midwest.The outbreak produced 36 tornadoes, at least 19 of them significant or intense, and is the second-deadliest June tornado event in Oklahoma history, with 16 deaths reported in the state, second only to the 35 people killed by an F4 tornado on June 12, 1942, in Oklahoma City. [1]