We’ve done a case study on the 1974 Super Outbreak as a whole, but let’s talk about the highest rated tornado of the entire event – the Xenia, Ohio F5 tornado.
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Sources:
https://www.weather.gov/iln/19740403
https://www.tornadotalk.com/the-xenia-oh-f5-tornado-april-3-1974/
SPC:
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/outbreaks/
Papers:
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/corfidi/74superoutbreak.PDF
https://www.weather.gov/media/ohx/PDF/fujita_april31974.pdf
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Is the Guin, Alabama F-5 (1974) or Tanner, Alabama F-5s (1974) up next up?
Great Case Study today! And Kayla you look so pretty as well! I love your hair! Jim… a stud as usual
Love the video, I would like a case study of radar system in 1974, love the old style radar with hooks
Remember seeing the news video of this tornado when I was a kid, and it scared the heck out of me!
i have a case study for you with some very interesting historical importance. the 1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes. i know damage wise and everything its not that big of a tornado, however it was the first time meteorologist could use radar to determine that a storm was tornadic.
Great video. It surprises me that even Theodore Fujita himself was even considering calling this tornado an F6. It kind of reminds me of a line from Category 6 Day of Destruction when Andy Goodman and two of the Storm Prediction Center employees are talking about how a tornado in the movie managed to knock down the St. Louis Arch and he declares the tornado an F6 and that nobody has ever seen an F6. If they actually called it an F6 back then, that would totally make sound like an apocalyptic tornado, one right out of a scfi movie.
One tornado worth learning g about is the Teton Wilderness Tornado in 1987. What’s really impressive about this twister was that it formed in the high altitude mountains at Yellowstone Park. It even crossed the Continental Divide, & more impressively… it was an F4!
Definitely should’ve been a F6
Like Dec 10-11 2021 Should be a EF5 that Tornado was violent but the same thing that made El Reno a EF3 till they put it as a EF5 due to open land, the same thing with the Dec 10-11 2021 Tornado
Amazing job! I was born and raised in Xenia and was just a youngster when the tornado struck in 74. I can talk about this tornado for days. My father and aunt were featured on the weather channels Storm Stories back in the late 90’s. Xenia at the time did not have Tornado sirens and with the amazing job of Whio and Gil Whitney that saved many more lives that day in Xenia including me and my family.
Super breakdown. What a monster this one was. The pinnacle of the super outbreak 😵💫
I would love to see these guys analyze the Lubbock tornado do May 11, 1970.
You still need the review about the Henryville Indiana tornado there is a video called tornado alley it’s a 42 minute video I’m pretty sure you will like it. At the beginning of the video this tornado went right past my house between palmyra and Salem Indiana
As always, a great meteorological breakdown and analysis! If you get the chance, could you do an analysis of the 1985 PA,OH,NY outbreak? I was doing an internship at the NWS Binghamton NY office during the evening of the outbreak. What was most puzzling was that until early evening, no storms were forming, but when the cap broke it was amazing. Even on the old WSR-74 radar at Binghamton we were seeing supercell echos from storms in Ontario Canada and in northwestern PA. It was an amazing evening.
Science tells us that an F-6 cant happen but if you took a strong enough tornado with windspeeds over 318 mph ripping a huge crater in the ground
That tornado was big and it had the most F5 tornadoes for a outbreak
Its wild to think the Xenia Ohio tornado became one of the deadliest individual storms of the 1974 outbreak. Such a tragedy for the 34 people and all those injured. Enjoyed this. I know you got long list of tornadoes too review, but one these days when can, id love if could do one on the Fritch Texas Tornado of 1992. Thanks!!!