Super Outbreak

This month is the 25th anniversary of the famous "Xenia Tornado Outbreak" which occurred on April 3-4, 1974. This super outbreak spawned a total of 148 tornadoes which occurred in the 24-hour period from noon CST April 3rd to noon CST April 4th. Thirty of these tornadoes were classified as F4 or F5 on the Fujita-Pearson Tornado Scale. The combined path length of all tornadoes was 2598 miles. Additional tornadoes occurred during the night of April 2nd and during the afternoon of April 4th. Numerous hailstorms and damaging winds were also reported with this system. NOAA's Natural Disaster Survey statistics showed that there were 315 storm related fatalities, with 6142 storm related injuries; 27,590 families suffered losses, and damages were over 600 million dollars (1974 dollars).

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/extremes/19...