Tennessee got the most Tornadoes that day...as for the conditions that day, know just what you mean. I was 16 years old then and was living in SE Michigan, right outside Detroit. I saw conditons that day that ive never seen before or since. Starting in the late morning, its was very strangely warm and humid for early April..low 70’s. All day, there was an almost constant, swirling 25-30 M.P.H.wind. What i remember most was how low the cloud cover was...i swear it was almost tree top level. The sky was a dark, gun metal gray and was just racing along...then suddenly the sky would open and you could see an upper level of clouds just blazing along in the opposite direction, then at times the sun would shine thru, giving everything a greenish-yellow tint..just stone creepy. Odd thing is, my area never got any storms of any kind that day..no rain no nothing, although about 7 P.M., the Windsor storm hit across the river and 8 were killed. But just from the conditions i saw that day, you just knew something really bad was happening some place...
Yea, everything was just a watch back then.
Not any real-time information. I was just riding around the neighborhood.
That day is one that had a strange feel. Everything I knew up to that point was different.
I had no idea it was Gulf to the Great Lakes!
I am sad for the lives that were lost.
Nobody had any idea of the magnitude and scope of this front.
I have a deep respect for the power of storms, especially in spring.