In this tornado horror compilation, you can see six of the scariest and most terrifying tornado videos associated with the April 3 1974 Super Outbreak. There aren’t a lot of high-quality videos from the 1974 outbreak, but I did my best to select some of the scariest videos from that tornado super outbreak! A compilation of April 2011 Super Outbreak videos is on the way.
Scary tornado video 6. Muncie / Parker City / Delaware County Indiana F4 tornado during April 1974 Super Outbreak
Scary tornado video 5. Louisville Kentucky F4 tornado during April 1974 Super Outbreak
Scary tornado video 4. Kennard Indiana F4 tornado during April 1974 Super Outbreak
Scary tornado video 3. Xenia Ohio F5 tornado during April 1974 Super Outbreak
Scary tornado video 2. Sayler Park F5 tornado during April 1974 Super Outbreak
Scary tornado video 1. Huntsville Alabama F3 tornado damage after April 1974 Super Outbreak
Sources for these April 1974 tornado Super Outbreak videos:
Scary tornado video 6. Muncie / Parker City / Delaware County Indiana F4 tornado during April 1974 Super Outbreak
Scary tornado video 5. Louisville Kentucky F4 tornado during April 1974 Super Outbreak
Scary tornado video 4. Kennard Indiana F4 tornado during April 1974 Super Outbreak
Scary tornado video 3. Xenia Ohio F5 tornado during April 1974 Super Outbreak
Scary tornado video 2. Sayler Park F5 tornado during April 1974 Super Outbreak
Scary tornado video 1. Huntsville Alabama F3 tornado damage after April 1974 Super Outbreak
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Something I like to say is that there are three kinds of tornadoes, visually.
Beautiful ones, photogenic, backlit, just hanging around in open fields and churning up dirt, trees, and maybe crops. They don't bother anyone.
Ugly ones, impacting structures with debris flying in the air. Big ones that you know could do serious damage if it hits anything. Rain-wrapped messes in High Precipitation Supercells.
And there are ones that just look like death. When people ask what I mean by that, I show the the photo of the Xenia tornado you used as a thumbnail, the one taken across a small parking lot into a housing development being devoured by the monster. Then they understand.
Also a suggestion: There really isn't any such thing as a 'severe' tornado. 'Severe' refers to thunderstorms. Tornadoes are informally classified like this:
Weak: EF0-EF1. The most common kind, usually short lived and do minor damage. Some much stronger tornadoes, however, can start out weak like this.
Significant: EF2-EF3. These start doing much more damage and can easily kill. The recent drone-filmed Andover, KS tornado was an EF3, or "Significant."
Violent: EF4-EF5. The rarest and most destructive. Often marked by multiple vortices, horizontal "tube" vortices, and a large amount of debris (natural or man-made) thrown into the air.
Contrary to popular thought, the size of the tornado does not necessarily indicate its strength. "Drillbil" tornadoes only tens of yards wide can do EF5 damage, and wedges approaching a mile wide sometimes do only EF1-EF2 damage.
So the tornadoes filmed in this would be either "Significant" or "Violent." Violent tornadoes get almost all the video coverage and cause the vast majority of the deaths, but they are very rare. Even today, catching one on film is a major achievement. Back in the 1970s, catching one on film was pure, blind luck – and extremely valuable to scientists like the famous Dr. Fujita.
On April 3, 1974, my dad saw a tornado on the ridge behind my aunt's house. Turns out there had never been a tornado reported in Martin Co., KY, at that time. Unfortunately, he didn't report it to the NWS. I tried to later, but because I was reporting it secondhand, it couldn't be accepted.
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The music. 😳
Love these videos!
Love these videos!
A tornado like this looks pretty scary to me.
Interesting fact about the Xenia video: You can distinctly hear a train HORN at a certain point. I read a personal account that said the train engineer was trying to warn people who lived along the railroad tracks that the tornado was coming, and that there were mobile homes along the tracks.
I`ve heard two tornadoes touch down near me since December 2022. I recognized what I was hearing 2 minutes before the emergency alert the first time. I live in a camper but there`s a huge wash with steep walls and a large 3 ft culvert 120 feet away. Those are my emergency shelters, but lightning is bad during severe storms and it`s a tough decision to get in water in a wash or culvert and a true last resort thing to do.
We had 2 tornados in 1974. They called them twin tornados cause 2 touched down in elkhart indiana. They leveled whole towns and it killed a lot of ppl.
One of the most interesting aspects of tornados is the propensity of tornados to follow specific tracks. Overlaying tornado damage paths from multiple events reveals a pattern. This is critical to saving lives.
We are coming up on the 50th anniversary of 3/4/74
There have only been 67 F5/EF5 tornadoes in recorded history worldwide. Seven of them occurred on this one day.
My aunts house was wiped out in huntsville tornado
That same outbreak hit down in Alabama and decimated the town of Guin.
Phipps the cat was killed for Christs sake … the SOB cat was killed !!!
He did not die that day but 11 years later, to the date, he died … I'm sure the tornado killed him !!
Was 9 years old and lived pretty close to Xenia, Ohio,never forget that day until I die,lay covered up in the school hallway,then when they let us leave I went home and it hailed the size of softballs with a double rainbow 🌈,put plenty of the hail in the freezer to show dad when he came home from work (general motors in Monrain,Ohio)
Boy, do I remember these. My mom told us about a tornado near where her cousin lived. ( I don’t know where that was. Just that it was in Wisconsin.). Now I’m getting this third-handed, but she was told that on the neighboring farm, the parents were out in the fields and got in a ditch. The oldest daughter put the smallest under the large cast-iron stove in the kitchen. Those who couldn’t fit under it went behind it. The only thing left of that farmhouse was that one kitchen wall where the stove was. None of the kids were seriously injured. But their chickens were sucked out of their coops and totally plucked. There were feathers everywhere. Like I said, I got this third-handed, but that’s what I was told.
bless those who went through that
This outbreak happened four years before I was born. Must have been an incredibly scary time back then.
Back when cars were made of steel.
My memory of that day was being in second grade in a trailer classroom when the tornado siren went off. Our teacher knew to get us into a hallway of the main building, and i remember our class running across the pavement with that siren (which was pretty close by) going off. Scary stuff for a six-year-old
This day will forever be etched into my brain. I'll NEVER forget it!! Trust me, when you see flying cows, you'll never forget it. The Dairy Farm next door lost their entire herd and 3 huge barns that day. They looked so graceful floating through the air, but their landings were horrifying. We found some of the carcasses about 2 miles away, identified by their ear tags and brandings. The devastation was unbelievable, it looked like a war zone in the aftermath of a bombing. Buildings, massive trees….everything was flattened for miles around us.
I always wonder if mankind will one day wield the power to control the weather or some shit imagine throwing ef5 tornados at the enemy ðŸ˜
I'm from Lima Ohio and there was a day in spring 1974 where the sky did get black and the news station put on the emergency striped screen with the honking noise that it makes while the emergency broadcast system generates while it is on the screen
I believe it was on a Sunday, but not sure as I was 7
I was in 4th grade in central Indiana 🎉I didn't feel good that day and I was in the infirmary lying on a bed and I could hear the weather report playing in the office about storms or something and it was time to go home I got on the bus and got home and the wind starting picking up I got to the front door and the door blew out of my hand and I was trying to shut it and my mom was panicking and telling me to get into the bathtub I remembered turning around and watching shingles flying down the road and debris how it missed our addition and flew across the hwy I don't know till this day.
Look up Palm Sunday tornadoes in Goshen, IN 1965. That pic will put any of these to shame. Watched it go south of us from an adjacent city. Twin Funnels. Some of my family in Ft Wayne IN couldn't get home for days to this area.
Just want to add… the background music you use is perfect. Really makes it more interesting and emotional.
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I was 6 years old when this outbreak happened we lived east of Cincinnati we had baseball sized hail but no tornado
I was 13 years old when the "TWISTER" came through SAYLER PARK( that thing was huge- something you never forget) ,and was heading toward us , however it broke up. I was coming home from school when just as I stepped in the house, the "BASEBALL SIZE HAIL" started coming down!!!!.
I was 6 years old in Louisville KY and still remember all of the details of that horrific day. In 1988, I moved to Oklahoma and experienced both tornadoes that hit Norman and Moore and the devestating El Reno tornado, all occuring in the state.
Remember that’s evening
Remember that evening clearly. A baby was found in a tree
I remember when this tornado hit our small Alabama town- I was 4 years old… yet it was so intense and traumatic I remember it like it was yesterday- it destroyed our town and over 200 homes
The people must be absolutely shell shocked after going through something like this. No matter where you live in this country or elsewhere, you have the chance of experiencing something terrible; tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes.
Crazy to be watching this video on what would be the 50th anniversary of this terrible event.
I just shat myself.