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The 1974 Xenia tornado was a violent 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 touched down in 13 different U.S. states.
Part of the tornado outbreaks of 1974. The 1974 Super Outbreakwas the second-largest tornado outbreakon 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. From April 3–4, 1974, there were 148 tornadoes ...
The Great Storm of 1975 (also known as the Super Bowl Blizzard, Minnesota's Storm of the Century, or the Tornado Outbreak of January, 1975) was an intense winter storm system that impacted a large portion of the Central and Southeast United States from January 9–12, 1975. A classic Panhandle hook, the mid-latitude cyclone produced an outbreak ...
The front page of The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 4, 1974, reporting on the tornadoes in Xenia, Sayler Park and other sites in the region during the tornado outbreak. One man said it was like the ...
XENIA, Ohio (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE — On April 3, 1974, a fierce tornado barreled through Xenia, Ohio, without warning, killing 32 people, injuring hundreds and leveling half the city of 25,000.
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.
List of Ohio tornadoes. An F4 tornado in Van Wert on November 10, 2002. Tornadoes in the U.S. state of Ohio are relatively uncommon, with roughly 16 tornadoes touching down every year since 1804, the year with the first ever event in the state. [1] Many of Ohio's tornadoes are violent, and there have been four recorded F5 or EF5 Tornadoes in ...
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 and April 4. It was considered the worst such outbreak in U.S. history for nearly 40 years. It's now second behind a 2011 outbreak. State and federal ...