Worst Tornado Outbreak in History: 1974 Super Outbreak
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- Опубликовано: 24 мар 2024
- On April 3rd, 1974, a set of conditions aligned across the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys that led to worst tornado outbreak in United States history. A record-breaking 7 F5 tornadoes and a dozens of other violent tornadoes tore thru the region. This wasn't just any tornado outbreak, but rather a Super Outbreak. We take a deeper look into the tornadoes of this historic event.
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I was flying a 10 passenger twin engine airplane from Detroit to St. Louis on April 3, 1974. I saw a line of thunderstorms ahead the likes of which I had never seen before in 10 years and 6,000 hours of flying time in the Midwest. I did not have weather, so I asked the air traffic controller about the storms and he told me the storm tops were measured on radar above 70,000 feet!! Keep in mind that radar can only see precipitation, and not clouds, so the actual tops of the storms had to have been well above 75,000 feet. I was able to parallel the line of storms and snuck around the south end near St. Louis. Never forget that day!!
What an incredible view. I'll bet Dr. Fujita would have loved to hear your eyewitness account!
That represents incredible updraft, probably over 100mph.
A flight later decades later coming into Lambert International reportedly crashed caused by a tornado. It’s not too uncommon for me to see rain tops 150-200 miles away on RadarScope
Wow. Incredible story! 😮
This is an observation that isn’t talked about much anymore….the height of the thunder heads! In the sixties and seventies when the weather man came on tv and discussed the storms he’d always mentioned the height of the clouds since it seemed to be tied into the severity of the storm! When the Tornadoes hit Grand Island, NE back in 1980 they talk about how high the cloud tops were! This storm was particularly curious since it actually sat stagnant over the city for about an hour! I believe the town was hit by a couple F1s and at least three F3 one of which was anti-cyclonic! A movie called Night of the Tornadoes was made about it!
It is crazy that Tanner Alabama was hit by two F5 tornadoes in 30 minutes. However, it is even crazier that on April 27, 2011, the Hackleburg/ Phil Campbell EF5 went directly in the middle of the two Tanner tornado paths. This is truly a once in a lifetime event and you put a great video together. Amazing job!!
Tanner was hit with a ef5 during the 2011 one also
A town that got hit by 3-F5 Tornadoes and 2 on the same day. What are the odds of that
Grady, when Ethan (June First) brought that up because I knew a couple things about the outbreak, I said to myself “ The Hackleburg EF5 tornado went right through the middle of those two tornadoes!” It’s crazy how that happens. I think tanner may be a tornado hotspot, like Moore and El Reno! But yeah, huge coincidence!
@TJ89741 it's insane now that to me is the Moore ok of Dixie alley lol. Imagine that shit a f5 passes thru town and u think ur good and than its your turn
@bdawgchannel8553 I just said that tanner is the Moore of Dixie alley
I lived in Louisville, Ky in the Highlands area and was 13 years old when the tornado hit. That day was unusual weather wise it was very warm and very humid and some rain showers that afternoon! My brother and a friend decided to walk three blocks to Cherokee park since the rain had let up just before we got the park the rain started once more and the sky was getting dark so we turn back heading home. We walked about one block and to our left we noticed how the clouds were changing colors greens, purples and pinks mixed with very dark black and gray clouds. while looking at the sky and the boiling clouds we noticed the sky was filling with what we thought for a few moments were flocks birds within a few seconds we realized it was parts of houses and trees filling the sky! At that moment we knew it was a huge tornado We took off running for home a couple block away. I will never forget the old man and his wife looking out their open front door watching the tornado as we past them I will never forget the old guy screaming at us saying "You're not going to make it" several times as we past his home. Honestly I didn't think we would survive either as the winds were howling and blowing with more force ever second. We cut though our neighbors front yard then out their backyard and jump the fence to our yard. I remember see my father's head sticking out of the cellar door that was on our back porch. I was glad they (mom ,dad and two siblings) had already took cover because as I was running I was also concerned about them at home and if they were even aware what was coming. Once in the yard we dove into the cellar then dad closed the doors. The noise and wind was howling like never before as we waited for the house to fly apart then the power went out. Thinking it was about to hit we all huddled in one corner with dad on top of us. Slowly the noise and wind started to calm down and we open the door to look outside we seen our yard was full of debris and blue flashes were lighting up the horizon. We realized it missed our home and the flashes were powerline's and transformers blowing as the tornado tracked to our east. Our home was not hurt but others that were a block or two away were destroyed. Three days later my father volunteered to work with the Red Cross and those couple day before working for the red cross we explored the damage by foot including Cherokee park..it was all gone total devastation. The Red Cross gave my father a huge box truck and was told to park in a shopping center away from the damaged areas to accept donations from the public and business. Within a couple hours we had the truck loaded with food, blankets, cloths and even huge rolls of plastic to help cover roofs of damaged homes. Once the truck was load we were told to head the Brandenburg ,Ky that was the hardest hit area in Kentucky. When we arrived there was no town everything was completely destroyed. It look like a war zone. 33 people died in that small town that was erased off the map. We dropped the load uphill from the main town in one of the few building still standing outside the town center. Other volunteer were passing the supplies to the people in need that were still in a state of shock that had nowhere to go and lost everything including family members. For a 13 year old boy I aged about 10 years that week and realized your whole world could change in a few minutes or even come to a end. I will never forget that horrible time that befell so many so fast!
Thank you for sharing!
Six EF-5 tornadoes formed in an 18 hour period on April 3-4, 1974. It is unusual to have ONE EF-5 in an entire year.
There hasn't officially been one since May 20th, 2013, being the infamous second Moore EF-5. Some argue that more recent tornadoes, such as Rolling Fork last year and the quad-state tornado family in December of 2021, should have gotten EF5 ratings. It's well known the current EF scale has flaws and a revision that will factor in things like radar measured windspeed and many more damage indicators is currently in the works.
@@ceeinfiniti1389 IIRC Rolling Fork was initially classified F5 then downgraded.
He actually said and showed 7 EF5 tornadoes.
@@cheddar2648 was it?
It's absurd how many tornadoes can happen in just one day
You think that's crazy? Read up about April 27, 2011.
@@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761 oh yeah I know about that
Right?! Like, that's more than a tenth of the average tornados in an entire year in the US, happening in a single day
IKR? Imagine if we had an outbreak with 500 tornadoes in the span of 24 hours!
@@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e77611974 was much more wild
It's haunting just how much of a resemblance the Xenia F5 has to the Tuscaloosa EF4 of the 2011 event structurally. Erratic, wild, unhinged multi-vortex monster.
How come Tuscaloosa was an ef4 and not an ef5 again
I helped clean up in Tuscaloosa with a group from Illinois where we lived in 2011. I saw the damage and was told by officials they believed the storm varied from F4 to just above F5 momentarily as it made it's way thru the city. As an EE and utility executive (having designed and built substations) I inspected a recently new power substation where the I-beams had been pulled out of the concrete, anchor-bolts and all ! I had never seen that in my 40 year career before. My heart dropped after this and i knew many of the people never had a chance. After a week of helping clean up and hearing the stories of those friends and family members killed, when i returned home with my wife and daughters we had nightmares for several days.
@@wramsey2656 It was a profoundly devastating tornado. I cannot imagine what the 4/27/2011 aftermath must've looked like up close.
My daughter and her roommates took a direct hit of the April 27, 2011 tornado in Tuscaloosa. I thank God every day for sparing those 4 girls and a 8 month old American Bulldog. All 4 girls lost everything but they're lives. The only place they had to go was in they're pantry under the stairs. It took the whole top floor of the house. And picked up the rest of it and sat it back down. Not one can of food fell off the shelves. But the rest of the house was destroyed. We went the next morning to see if we could salvage anything. I NEVER want to see anything like that again. It looked like a nuclear bomb had went off. My daughter had survivers guilt for a long time. She is now terrified of storms. Whereas, she hated going to a storm shelter before that day. I cannot imagine what anyone who has been through a tornado of any strength, from an EF0 to an EF5 feels or what goes through they're head on a day to day basis.
@@darlarawls2822 I cannot even imagine. That is one of the most horrifying tornadoes in recorded history. The way it just barrelled right through Tuscaloosa, then grew to a colossal 1.5 miles in diameter and did the same in Birmingham.
Great report, Ethan! On April 3, 1974 I was a senior in high school and a newly-trained storm spotter in Richmond, Kentucky. We had an F4 of our own that day. It killed seven people in Madison County. I saw the birth of it, then scampered home to report it to the National Weather Service before our electricity and our phones went out. There's much more that I could say about that day, but I'll just add that Kentucky has only been struck by two F5 (or EF5) tornadoes in its history, and both were on the same day, April 3, 1974.
I was a year and a half old.
@@Living_EDventures I was a senior in military school in Columbia, Tennessee. I seem to remember there were a few days of unsettled, borderline severe weather leading up to the main event on 3 April.
I remember the storms marching in from unexpected directions, greenish haze in the sky, and grapefruit-size hail wrecking the sate roofs of the 1890-era buildings on the campus.
The next week our physics class had a field trip to a TVA nuclear power plant; the damage made us reconsider our ideas of fate and mortality, but the thing I remember most vividly was a '59 Deuce-and-a-Quarter Buick deposited about a hundred feet off the ground in the wreckage of a high-tension power transmission line tower.
Thank you for giving equal time to the Tanner and Guin F5s. I was 10 on 4/3/74 and grew up in Decatur AL. My grandmother, my aunt and her family, and many friends lived in Tanner. All survived and their homes were not damaged. Unfortunately, 2 students of my aunt lost their lives. I saw the damage first hand. It was the most disturbing thing I have ever seen. My college roommate was from Guin. The stories she told about that night were horrific. The Guin twister hit just south of Decatur as an F3. My family heard it from our home. It was the most terrifying night of my life.
Best overview of the 74 Super Outbreak I’ve ever seen- thank you Ethan
Weatherbox just uploaded a pretty good video about it too
@@ceeinfiniti1389 you are right- very good.
What a video recap of this incredible event for the 50 year anniversary. The animations were first class. Amazing production work. The super outbreak is almost unfathomable. The weather went absolutely wild.
My dad was going to Tennessee Tech and studied through the tornado. Someone died just a few miles away and dad is chilled out reading a book.
I live here in cookeville. We had a really bad tornado back in 2020.
5:02 That photo is pure nightmare fuel
This is excellent content. Brought up some bad memories of that day I was 8 years old laying on the bathroom floor with my mom & 2 year old brother that day when an F5 went over our house in Hazel Green, AL. And to pour salt on those wounds the outbreak in 2011 initially started in Faulkner Cty AR and hit my subdivision in Vilonia on April 25th. Then 2 years and 2 days later on April 27, 2013 another F5 came within 1,000 yards of my home and destroyed a brand new middle school that was scheduled to have it's grand opening. That's 2 F5 tornado's so far just hope the 3rd one isn't "The One".
FYI: after the 2013 F5 I had an underground tornado shelter built. What took me so long???!!!
Dear God!!! 😮
I sure wish i could afford a shelter underground. I lived at sea level half my life, but im in ne tx now and could do it if I had the funds.
Thank you for mentioning Rochester. Most people omit that tornado altogether, or when they do mention it, they only mention Monticello. My mother was a child in Rochester at the time and, while her home was spared, others in her neighborhood weren't.
So glad I found this channel. I fill like it’s a hidden gem
Dude, how do you skip over the F4 that rolled through Louisville KY? Kentucky's biggest city. Three fatalities and extreme damage.
I was 8yrs old when these tornadoes ran through north Alabama. We were close enough to see the Tanner tornadoes as the entire town was wiped off the map.
The next day, we flew over the path of the storms and could not believe that large parts of the county were gone. There was very little warning prior to impact, so taking cover was hardly an option.
This date still sends a shiver of fear through me, even 50 years later.
It’s always so crazy to me that events like this can happen… 7 EF5s in ONE DAY and we haven’t had one for 10+ years now (officially). Awesome video I always love watching things like this on any super outbreaks!
Seems like they've gotten much more picky about assigning the eF5 rating. I firmly believe the Mayfield tornado was at EF5 strength in at least a portion of its path.
My mom lived in Wilmington, but on that day she was in Xenia for some errands, She remembered a pitch black sky and how some of the semitrucks sped up and almost ran them off the road.
She said it whistled, but i think that was the wind whipping around the edge of something.
Numerous people described the sound as "whooshing" or like what you hear at the end of a vacuum cleaner hose. A few people heard absolutely nothing until it was almost on top of them. Apparently the close-up inflow was so strong that it even pulled sound into the core.
Xenia was so bad Fujita himself gave it a preliminary rating of F6.
I was wondering about that. I knew that he’d given an F6 preliminary rating but wasn’t sure if it was part of this particular outbreak.
@@pjesf He also did it with Lubbock (1970).
@@dieterdelange9488 THAT's the one I was thinking of - thank you
Only for the first subdivision that was hit, after that it was all f4/f3 damage
@@brad5349 Yet Brad they don't rate them by subdivisions. You must not have seen some of the homes on North Detroit St and those behind the high school. I wouldn't be trying to downgrade a tornado that could pick up train cars in the middle of town and toss them about. That train wasn't even close to the subdivision you are talking about.
Your handmade animations on this video are very high quality, good job they look better than anything that could've been done on a computer, good job!
If it looks like a greenish tint outside get underground!
Thank you for pronouncing Guin correctly. In so many 1974 super outbreak videos, it gets mid-pronounced as “Gwen” or even “gun”. On Wednesday, April 3 the churches in Guin will be holding a commemoration of the tornado.
Is it like geen? I'm in tx.
@@RepentfollowJesus, it’s pronounced Gyoo-in
I remember that day/night very well. I was 9 and we lived on a farm north of Louisville in southern Indiana. That one F5 came very close to us, and I remember running to get into the cellar of the cellar house. We were lucky.
And tanner Alabama got nailed with a F5 during the 2011 outbreak. Good video
The Hackleburg EF5, too, IIRC.
Crazy that its almost 50 years since this tornado outbreak
Yep and the next couple of days could be just as nasty there from what I just seen.
As a kid in elementary school i recall that morning still today in 2024. I normally walked to school in Sturgis, Ky so as i walked out of my house into the yard i could see the low moving clouds quickly moving. The winds were picking up and sustaining (not gusting). I was actually able to lean into the wind with all my weight and the wind was holding me up (i was 11 years old in the 6th grade). My grandfather took me to school that morning. Later that morning i recall the tornado bell in the school and we all went to the hall ways, my class had to go to the lunch room. I remember the PE Teacher Mr Tom opening the door so we could see the hailstones, they were like tennis and baseballs hitting the ground and street. If anyone had been outside they would have perished. There had to have been a tornado near by with those massive hailstones. I recall every car left outside that day was totaled. I believe with the primitive weather equipment (compared to today), there surely were many other tornados that did not get recorded. Our town was small and there was little media in our county. Homes and buildings were damaged. The energy in the atmosphere that day i have rarely experienced in my 62 years on this earth. Good video thanks. Oh by the way years later as an EE i hired a young engineer from Xenia, OH, he told me the horrible story of how he and his family survived, others they knew died.
I remember this at 9 years old...one of the earliest tornadoes that helped get my start in weather.
I was 8 and I agree!
I am going down to Xenia for the 50th anniversary. I was asked. The NWS and many spotters now believe that were many more tornadoes not seen or reported, than the official 148. Dr. Fujita originally ranked the Xenia tornado an F6. It also had the most deaths of any of the tornadoes. The Monticello (prononced Monti sell o), died out not far where I presently live. Also, 31 was the death toll at Brandenburg. Very good video, new sub here :). Most figures show 315-335 as the final death toll
I can't believe people don't talk about Tanner being hit *twice,* *30 minutes* apart, with both tornadoes being *F5!* The 1974 Outbreak was in a league of its own.
Incredible video!
Makes you wonder...was that just abnormal weather for Tanner, or was some ungodly thing happening in that town?
Two F5s 30 minutes apart?? Curious minds want to know.
There were more F5 tornadoes on this one day, then in one whole year. Let that sink it… Take a second and just let that sink in.
There were more on that day than in over ten years
FYI: It’s Monti-sell-o. Also, Versailles is Ver-sales here. We don’t do well with foreign words here!
I was wondering if somehow it was pronounced differently than Monticello KY despite the same spelling lol
lol, I've heard people pronounce Milan, IN as _Mill-ahn_ before and all I could do was laugh... friggin tourists 😂
@JaxFPrime81 how is it pronounced? I'm in tx.
@RepentfollowJesus _"My-Lan"_
everyone I know has pronounced it that way for as long as I can remember
@@JaxFPrime81 ty.
In Xenia, Ohio, no it hit Arrowhead Homes Subdivision first to be hit on the southwest side of town. Then continued on to the center of town passing through two other subdivisions named Laynewood Homes 2 and 3. Windsor Homes were located behind the high school. Cedarville, Ohio was not impacted. Wilberforce University and Central State University were impacted. They sit across the street from each other. I see you gave Bruce Boyd credit for his film, he lived in Laynewood Homes. He was a classmate, Xenia High School Class of 1976. It was a horrible time for many people and has never been surpassed in weather history. Of all the F5 that hit that day, Xenia was considered the worst.
Exactly right. I saw it from the lake and came in town right after with my mom to check on dad at his business.
I didn't know that FEMA was born out of the super outbreak.
I was 9 years old that day and lived not far from Brandenburg, KY. We lost the roof to our house and I feel lucky we had a well house to shelter in.
1988 baby here. I'm a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, particularly grew up in the western suburbs of the Cincinnati metro area, in the Green Township area of Hamilton County, as did my father. My great aunt who passed 20 years ago always used to talk of how all but a few houses on the street were completely destroyed but hers was relatively untouched.
look up the WHAS Louisville KY radio recordings of that day. surreal AF to listen to.
4 F3 tornadoes hit the county i currently live in. My mom was driving home in her Camaro in the dark and was rolled over almost a dozen times 10 years before i was born. You can still see where it went up a hill at the spot where she was struck.
A very incredible video!!! Such detailed information and explanation of this horrible event.
Great job on this Ethan. So much presented quickly and thoroughly. Great graphics too👍🏼
I ll second that. You nailed it Ethan
comparing the 74 outbreak to the 2011 event, i still say the 74 outbreak was far more historic and important. While there were more tornadoes in 2011, it was mostly within Alabama, where as the 74 storm was so wide spread..from the deep South all the way up to Windsor, Ontario in Canada. Also more violent, with 30 tornadoes either F-4 or F-5....the Xenia storm was especially historic. For such a powerful tornado to go directly thru the center of a decent sized town..from one end to the other, is jaw dropping. Parking meters sheared off at the base, brick homes completely swept away, no trace of any debris...also, the Guin, Alabama tornado showed incredible power. I was 16 at the time the outbreak happened, in SE Michigan....i saw conditions ive never seen before or since. You just knew something really bad was happening someplace. Excellent video....
There was 147 tornadoes in the United States with one other in Southern Canada
This is an awesome video just like usual! I love this video so much, but it’s so eerie knowing this will be 50 years ago in a week and two days! This and the 2011 super outbreaks are so fascinating! This is the entire reason I love tornadoes and want to do the exact same stuff! Tornado chasing, analysis, etc! One outbreak I really want you to talk about is the 1985, May 31st tornado outbreak! But all in all, great work and I hope you can keep making just like this! Cya next time June First!
5/31/85 is def on the list. I’ll get to it eventually! Cheers!
@@junefirst Cheers! The reason I brought it up was because the outbreak doesn’t get enough love or notice. So, I’m really happy it’s on the list!
During your research, see if you can find records of windblown dirt, way high up after unusually strong winds carried prairie soil east to Ohio. I was in Lima, OH on that day and recall going outside to confirm the air was hazy with thick dust. This makes me remember the outbreak that much more.@@junefirst
Well done job describing what happened. What a scary day that was for all the region
Oh wow! Two weather people doing coverage of similar subjects ! Great minds think alike!
First, to comment! To me, the Xenia, Ohio Torando is the most notable and terrifying, especially recording video with the sound. A freight train was passing by Xienia, and the engineer sounded the horn of his locomotive to warn those before the tornado pick-up and destroyed the train
Grew up and was living 20 miles south of Xenia, OH April '74. The US began getting residences tornado "aware" after this. Installing sirens and readying schools for outbreaks, and setting up the National Weather Center network.
Yes, Xenia was a case study of using all resources available and what needed to be done to warn people.
I didn’t live far from Xenia at that time either.
I lived near fairborn at the time. It was a crazy day
I stand by until the end of time that i believe that the Guin Tornado was the strongest of the Outbreak and one of the strongest Tornado of all time. This Tornado had some of the most extreme damage ever recorded while racing at 60mph to 70mph.
Very good point. Guin I call the Phil Campbell of the 1974 outbreak for such long track and strength. While also moving at 60 mph
Rural small towns, especially in the South, often don't get the media attention larger towns do. Similar happened in 2011. Trying to imagine that monster hitting at night is still more than I can conceive. Top 5 for strongest tornado for sure yet still hardly recognized beyond the more learned in the storm community.
Xenia, Ohio was estimated to be 300 to 320 miles per hour. Look it up, plenty of references for it,
@@irismaniaXenia was unbelievable in the damge they suffered. That was a wild day - the twisters kept popping everywhere and seemed like they'd never stop!
The one in Brandenburg Kentucky was also incredibly violent
Amazing vid! One note, there was an additional F4 between the Hanover, Madison IN F4 and Sayler Park OH F5, that hit Bear Branch IN. There was also an F4 after the Sayler Park F5, that hit Mason OH.
Yup! There are so many tornadoes in this outbreak, but I chose 10 to cover in detail.
I was 10 and that was the scariest weather day of my life. I actually saw a funnel cloud go over our house, and the timing makes me wonder if it turned into the tornado that destroyed most of Brandenburg Kentucky. I have never again seen the sky turn that shade of green. It hailed and then it rained so hard that the placid little creek near our home ripped the culvert out from under our neighbor's driveway. It was later found about a half-mile downstream.
And here we are 50 years later with tornado watches and warnings across Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. I pray it won’t be anything like it was back then.
Tomorrow is Wednesday April 3 😭 And today most of the Ohio Valley are on watch for possible tornadoes… Of course this happens on the 50th anniversary of the 1974 outbreak
Excellent video production.
Fantastic job, dude! I expect with the 50th anniversary coming up, we're going to see a lot more of these as well and rightfully so - I lived through it in central Ohio, when I was a wee lad of 11, and am forever thankful my area got severe thunderstorms but no tornadoes...
Watching this after seeing the weather report for Ohio on April 2nd 2024.
It's incredible to imagine just how many people are alive today because of all of the research, planning, and action taken by many great minds after 4/3/1974. It's awful that the tornado outbreak happened. It's, however, good to know that a lot was learned from that tragic day in order to help us better understand what happened, why it happened, how to better prepare, and how to better help in the recovery process. Just the work of Dr. Fujita and his team, alone, has probably saved countless lives over the past decades.
So I’ve heard about this tornado from my dad, who was in a church daycare at the time, he said the tornado jumped the church.
I was 8 snd remember channel 9 news showing the sayler park tornado. I felt like i was watching an actual monster!!
That was quite the day. I came home from school and nobody was home - my mom took my older sister somewhere so i turned on the TV and the bulletins just kept coming- within maybe a 5 minute period it went from severe thunderstorm warning to tornado watch to warning complete with the sayler Park tornado being broadcast on the TV... Then the power went out, then i went across the street to a store, because I didn't want to be by myself... Then the hail came down, after the hail, i noticed my mom was home, as I crossed the street i saw a funnel spinning up just to the left of the house. I ran across the street to tell them, slipping on the hailstones, I told them a tornado was forming and pointed at it. They saw the funnel and we went downstairs. It didn't touch down. We came up after a few minutes. We assumed it was clear for us since the sky was clearing to the south. That's when i took the metal trash cans to the road. Thursday was trash day. I didn't know that less than 2 minutes away an F3 or 4 was just to the east because it was obstructed by trees. The cans blew out of my hands and up the hill never to be seen again and i thought it was hilarious. 5 minutes later my grandparents came from Mason, running from the tornado that was about to hit the grocery store. They actually saw what I didn't.
The area is much more populated now and there would be a lot more casualties if the same thing happened today compared to 50 years ago, but just listening to the number of places that were hit, and were continuing to be hit for the next few hours was unbelievable. Definitely an historic event.
Good video on the 1974 tornado 🌪️ outbreak-your graphs and animation made a most detailed analysis of the event! The 50th Anniversary is approaching so that was excellent work! Thanks! 😊😊😊😊😊😊
This channel is going to explode brother. Your editing style is unique. I like it!
Glad you liked!
Nice job with this video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Levine's book "F5" focuses on the Tanner and Decatur, Alabama, tornadoes. They narrowly missed a nuclear power plant. That book also includes a lot of interesting detail on Dr. Fujita and weather research. For example, to study updraft intensity, they flew planes into billowing cumulus during the building phase of storm genesis. Some planes measured 70mph plus updraft velocities. It's an interesting read.
Excellent presentation and professionally done.
Excellent video!
I was born in the late '70s, but the psychological impact this left on my older and especially elderly family members was horrific. My grandmother didn't scare us with stories about ghosts or monsters, she would tell us about this storm. Seems like everyone used to have storm shelters. Alo seemed like any time there was a dark cloud in the sky my grandmother was at the foot of her storm cellar.
Of all of these recaps i have never heard of the Saylor Park tornado that hit Cincinnati
Great informative video, I was 10 years old that night and living in Huntsville, AL. I remember hearing one of the tornadoes that went through north Alabama that night.
I have trees on my farm here in southern Indiana that are twisted up on the tops from that same tornado that hit Brandenburg first leveling most of the town ! It crossed the river went up the hill side passing just west of Laconia then across my land and on to Elizabeth then to louisville where it dropped again ! When I bought this land in 84 I built a underground house on top of a hill facing East so f it happens again I’ll be safe.
Next week marks the 50th anniversary. Do these events happen almost every 50 years? It seems like they kinda do (1925, 1974, 2023)?
Excellent overview
Off topic but your skin is absolutely glowing here so whatever you’ve been doing keep it up!
Louisville KY got hit my man, pretty good,the same system that hit Irvington,ky
A great video. I grew up in Tanner, AL. My parents lived through the 1974 tornados and the 2011 tornados. Our home was destroyed in the 2011 tornado. At the time, there was still debris from the 1974 tornado in the woods behind our home. What is interesting was that before the 2011 F5 tornado came through Tanner that day a couple of hours earlier, an F0 came before it. So there were two tornados an F0 first, then an F5 that came the same path that same day in 2011.
The details of a new tornado passing over two existing tornadoes is worthy of a separate study! *GREAT JOB!*🙋♂
Simply amazing documentary on the Super Outbreak!!
Thanks for the video. My aunt & uncle lost their house. My grandparents lost their barn , all livestock, house damaged in the outbreak.
This and April 27,2011 are red letter days in Weather/Tornado history. So many F4/F5 Events in a short period of time. Tuscaloosa was the Xenia as most noted and Philadelphia was Brandenburg in terms of pure Power.
I remember this day. Ironically, we had recently moved from that area of the country to, ironically enough, Kansas which had no severe weather on this occasion as you know. One of my sisters and her husband watched the storm in Louisville from a car on the Waterson Expressway that was tied up in traffic. We were listening to clear channel WHAS radio using an antenna my dad had rigged up so that we could listen to Cawood Ledford call UK games during basketball season. We were all pretty amazed at what we were hearing.
For its time, this was well forecasted. The National Severe Storms Forecast Center was all over it. Unfortunately, messaging tornado forecasts to the public was still in its infancy.
Great production! Thanks for the new video!
I love the new animation style!
Great insight.
Very interesting video. I was a 10 year old boy living on the north side of Cincinnati. When I came out of school that day, I was excited to see that we were going to have a thunderstorm. I really wanted to see the lightning. I didn't have to wait too long. After I got on the school bus, I saw a lightning bolt which illuminated a tornado right next to it. I was no longer thrilled about the storm. I was SCARED TO DEATH. I got home in time for Mom to take me to the YMCA for my chess lesson. While there the storm that hit Saylor Park was coming straight at my area. We got hit with enormous hailstones as big as baseballs. You could see the rings in the stones as each stone was disk shaped. There were millions of these stones everywhere. We had to take cover from the approaching tornado. Fortunately, the tornado skipped over my location. That was how I learned to protect myself from a tornado. The drills were not done in schools at this time. We didn't even have weather radios then. Both the drills and widespread weather radios came about after the super outbreak. That Wednesday was a day I'll NEVER FORGET.
An excellent production by Ethan. This really helps tell the story of those very violent tornados.
Wow....Tanner, did not know that. Xenia overshadowed that.
thats crazy I used to live in Louisville Kentucky but I never heard of this Disaster will I was born in 1991
It really speaks of how far meteorology and weather surveillance has come as a science, to have figures of 32 fatalities and 1,000 injuries from a violent tornado in 1974, whittle down to maybe 1-11 fatalities and a few dozen injuries today. We all like to poke fun at how inaccurate the weather man is, but the weather man is actually more accurate and precise than he has ever been in history. And it's saved innumerable lives.
Thank you for the video and for explaining the Fujita scale.
The animations are insane. Must have taken so long
Awesome video thanks
Superb video! Thanks for putting so much effort into these! There is always something more to learn about the Super Outbreak.
As a little kid growing up in the 70s, I remember reading in the newspaper about the utter destruction that befell Xenia OH on April 3 1974. Amazing that 50 years have passed. God bless you people who suffered through that.
I lived in Mack Ohio on April 3, 1974. I was 13 years old. There was a terrible hailstorm, and then calm. Then we saw the tornado, and retreated to the basement. We came out of the basement to see an F5 tornado moving away from us, houses literally exploding in its path. That was the Sayler Park tornado. This outbreak happened on a Wednesday, too, just like the 50th anniversary.
Great video, Love this kind of content
Ahh yes,The Xenia ohio tornado,the second tornado to be rated f6 by Mr.Fujita himself.
My town of Brandenburg KY was hit by a tornado on this day, it wiped out most of the town and killed 31 people, we had a community meeting today at 4:00 and the names of those killed were read allowed
I watched an in depth documentary on this outbreak and most of these areas didn’t even get tornado warnings because back then no Doppler Radar existed. This outbreak changed the way storms were tracked and led to the Doppler Radar over a decade later.
The style and rawness of this video is unrivaled, stellar work Ethan.
I was in school at the time and I remember seeing it on the news. It was a few days before news caught up with how terrible it was.
I remember seeing the picture of the Xenia tornado in the Chicago Trib the next day,and was amazed at how HUGE it was!