Uploaded April 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Video produced by the National Technical Information Service for the USDA in 1978 documenting the April 3-4, 1974 "Super Outbreak" of tornadoes." At the time this video was produced, the outbreak was the worst in U-S history with 148 twisters touching down in 13 states. Before it was over 16 hours later, 330 people were dead and 5,484 were injured in a damage path covering more than 2,500 miles.
As of April 2014, the "Super Outbreak" ranked as the 2nd largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period, just behind the April 25-28, 2011 tornado outbreak. The 1974 outbreak included 30 F4-F5 tornadoes among the 148 that touched down in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, New York and Canadian province Ontario. One of the most notorious tornadoes tore through Xenia, Ohio.
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Video produced by the National Technical Information Service for the USDA in 1978 documenting the April 3-4, 1974 "Super Outbreak" of tornadoes." At the time this video was produced, the outbreak was the worst in U-S history with 148 twisters touching down in 13 states. Before it was over 16 hours later, 330 people were dead and 5,484 were injured in a damage path covering more than 2,500 miles.
As of April 2014, the "Super Outbreak" ranked as the 2nd largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period, just behind the April 25-28, 2011 tornado outbreak. The 1974 outbreak included 30 F4-F5 tornadoes among the 148 that touched down in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, New York and Canadian province Ontario. One of the most notorious tornadoes tore through Xenia, Ohio.
Learn more here: (NOAA) ow.ly/vFzM3 and ow.ly/vFzQV
(Facebook) ow.ly/vFzOb (Wikipedia) ow.ly/vFzUf
