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State Route 2 (SR 2), formerly known as Inter-county Highway 2 until 1921 [3] and State Highway 2 in 1922, [4] is an east–west highway crossing most of northern Ohio. Its western terminus is at the Indiana state line near Hicksville where the route becomes Indiana State Road 37 which continues to Fort Wayne, Indiana .
The Lakeland Freeway (often called "Route 2" in the section that carries solely Ohio State Route 2) is a limited-access freeway in the northeastern suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. It runs with and parallel to Interstate 90 , and follows the shore of Lake Erie , linking the suburban areas of Lake County to Cleveland and Cuyahoga County .
Tornado damage in Lorain, Ohio The Xenia, Ohio tornado from the 1974 Super Outbreak. This tornado was rated by Ted Fujita himself as an F6 , but it was retroactively downgraded to F5 [ 1 ] Tornadoes in the state of Ohio are relatively uncommon, with roughly 16 tornadoes touching down every year since 1804, the year with the first recorded event ...
The tornado in Xenia led to dozens of fatalities and an estimated $250 million in damages, but 1974, with its 25 confirmed sightings, was a relatively calm year for Ohio tornadoes.
The Ohio tornado on April 3, 1974, killed 34 people in Xenia, making it the deadliest single tornado of that day's Super Outbreak. Ohio has a long history of deadly, destructive tornadoes .
A total of 32 people were injured and damage was estimated at $2.5 million. It was the worst tornado to hit the region until May 30, 1998, when an F4 tornado destroyed the small town of Spencer, killing six people and injuring 150 others. [2] [4] [5] [10]
Until now, the worst year for tornadoes in Ohio was 1992, when 62 twisters touched down, Peloquin said. The strongest that year was an EF4 tornado that hit Van Wert County in Western Ohio on Feb ...
The 1974 Xenia tornado was a violent, large and extremely powerful 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 ...