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Apr 3, 2008 12:42 pm US/Eastern

April 3 Weather Trivia Answer

  Name the town that was destroyed in the Super Tornado Outbreak of April 3, 1974.

a) Tupelo, Mississippi
b) Louisville, Kentucky
c) Tanner, Alabama
d) Xenia, Ohio


Answer: d) Xenia, Ohio

The largest tornado outbreak on record took place on the night of April 3 into the early morning of April 4, 1974. There were 148 tornadoes covering 13 states in the Ohio Valley and the southeastern United States. On the original Fujita scale, 6 of the tornadoes were rated F5. 350 people perished and 5300 were injured. Alabama, Kentucky and Ohio were the hardest hit states. Xenia, Ohio was 70% destroyed and 34 people were killed there by one of these F5 tornadoes that produced estimated winds of 261-318 mph!

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