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Posted on 04/03/2024 5:10:58 PM PDT by basalt
For those interested, this is an excellent study of that event..
https://youtu.be/ral7kXMYLjI
Ohio ?
Poor town of Tanner, Alabama got nailed twice within 30 minutes by back-to-back F5 tornados.
Brandenburg KY got hit hard. I lived near Ireland Army Hospital at Fort Knox, remember the medevac choppers coming in and out.
Outstanding video. Thanks for sharing.
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A tornado demolished my wife’s high school and the Court House in Monticello , In . That day .
State Farm Insurance ran ads for years based upon the tornado that hit Xenia Ohio in that outbreak.
I remember that day. We lived west of Indianapolis in Hendricks county. All the bad storms went around us. The Xenia tornado was big news.
I was living in Frankfort, KY then.
one of the best ive seen on the Outbreak.
I was in 1st grade in AL. Remember it vaguely, but remember the tornado drills we had the next few years very well!
I just missed getting caught up in #97 and #99 that night. A friend and I went riding around and left Tullahoma to head up the mountain to Sewanee, ten over to Monteagle, then back down on the interstate to wind back up in Tullahoma.
#97 crossed the highway just a few minutes after we’d passed that point. I was admiring the “light show” as we rode along, not knowing there was even a tornado warning. It was raining and a bit windy but wasn’t too bad .... then.
#99 crossed the interstate while we were still on the mountain. We saw a couple of tractor-trailers lying on their sides and I commented that there must have been a heck of a storm.
My parents were in a panic while we were gone, having seen on TV what was going on that night. They knew we had no clue and had probably been caught up in a tornado and crunched up in the car.
I drove the same route the next day and what a mess! A house we’d driven past the night before was scrubbed clean down to the foundation.
Seven people in this county died that night.
the Monticello tornado was the longest track of the entire Outbreak...on the ground whopping 121 miles..and almost constant F-4 strength. Def one for the history books.
thats what shocked the scientists...they knew there was gonna be a outbreak of Tornadoes, but the area that was involved they couldn’t believe, fatalities from the Deep South in Alabama to Windsor, Ontario Canada. At one point, there were 16 tornadoes on the ground at the same time..like an all out attack.
That’s just an excellent video, thanks for posting. Well worth watching.
Bad weather saved the life of the man who would become famous for trying to protect people from bad weather.
Even more coincidentally, when he went to survey the damage at Nagasaki, he noted something that would be key to his storm research more than 30 years later. The trees at ground zero were still standing, while those further away had been blown outward, leaving a starburst pattern.
That was the seed that grew into his theory of microbursts.
Yes, Xenia. But the suburbs on the west side of Cincinnati were hit hard, just not as thorough as Xenia. which lost half the town.
I saw the F5 in Ohio barreling down the freeway. From miles away.
I was young and promptly found a ping to hide under.
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