The Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974

National Weather Service ^ | April 4, 1974 | Various

[pnut22]

Observations | Local/National Analysis Aerial Damage Photos | Ground Damage Photos | Xenia F5 Track Map

The April 3-4, 1974 Super Outbreak affected 13 states across the eastern United States, from the Great Lakes region all the way to the Deep South. In all, 148 tornadoes were documented from this event, of which 95 were rated F2 or stronger on the Fujita scale and 30 were F4 or F5. Aside from all the castastrophic damage they left behind, the tornadoes resulted in Detailed Super Outbreak tornado path and intensity analysis, hand drawn by Dr. T. Theodore Fujita of University of Chicago. (click for high-res version) 335 deaths and more than 6000 injuries.

[pnut22]

When Joe Biden was crediting the recent tornado to climate change, it took me back to an earlier event in my town. Weather happens.

[basalt]

December outbreaks are nothing new...has happened many times...also, February outbreaks....same thing....

[Pollard]

I’ve been using this one for lefties on twitter who are claiming “climate change” is to blame; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1896_tornado_outbreak_sequence

484 dead in an era with less population density and happened before the automobile and the US’s Industrial Age. I think my great grandpa was still delivering milk in his horse and carriage in Massachusetts. He had one milk cow and one horse and supplied milk to half the town.

“”” A total of 484 people were killed during the entire outbreak sequence by at least 38 different tornadoes which struck Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland.[nb 1][nb 2] “””

It’s just the ultimate to shut the dumbasses down.

[digger48]

Remember it all too well

Lost my 86 yo grandmother in that one

[janetjanet998]

This outbreak likely had many more tornadoes...it’s just that we didn’t have todays radar or spotter networks back then to pinpoint.

This was one of the strongest tornadoes ever..even for an F5 it was extremely violent

VIDEO: The Xenia, Ohio Tornado of 1974 Video
https://rumble.com/vk0ps7-the-xeniaohio-tornado-of-1974.html

[Pollard]

Also, some leftist tried to argue December isn’t normal so I went here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks, and hit Ctrl+F and searched for “December” and found 26 different tornadoes or tornado outbreaks and many more for Nov, Jan, Feb, March that are outside the typical tornado season.

I also pointed out that weather data has only been kept since the late 1800s and to start with, it was newspaper records. The National Weather Service wasn’t created until 1870.

[digger48]

Still have the Rochester (Indiana) paper from that event

Picture of my grandma’s house after the storm on the wall

[pnut22]

The house I live in lost it’s roof in that tornado. I didn’t live here at the time, though.

[virgil]

I live in Wisconsin. A few years ago we had a tornado just a mile from here in January.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

I remember these tornadoes very well…

[WVNan]

Any one in middle America should have a tornado shelter. Every structure also should have shelter. No different from the bomb shelters during WWII.

[FreedomPoster]

I lived near a hospital not far from Brandenberg, KY. I remember lots of MEDEVAC flights the next day.

[MachIV]

I was 7 years old in the lower midwest when this happened. Seems like I spent the whole night in the basement with my parents listening to an old Elgin analog radio with push button controls for police band radio. That thing is still in my mom’s house somewhere.

[mom4melody]

I was a freshman in high school during the ‘74 outbreak.

Tornadoes love me. My house has been hit 3 times, I’ve driven thru two.

And my cruise ship was very neat a water spout.

[Graybeard58]

December outbreaks are nothing new...has happened many times...also, February outbreaks....same thing.

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In all 50 states.