CASILIST : Anniversary of the Super Outbreak

J (j{at}weatherwatchers.org)
Sat, 04 Apr 1998 00:27:47 -0500

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Tonight marks the anniversary of the midpoint of the Super Outbreak in
1974. The most famous and damaging tornado outbreak in history, it
stretched from 12pm on 4/3/74 to 7am 4/4/74. It covered a large part of
the eastern US (13 states) and spawned 148 tornados in 24 hours, at
least 6 of which were F5. 315 people were killed; 6,142 injured.
Damage was over $600 million dollars.

Even worse, two months later, I was born ;)

For more information on the Super Outbreak, including a weather
discussion of the precursory conditions, see this URL:

http://www.weather.com/breaking_weather/encyclopedia/tornado/history.html

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Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist - j{at}weatherwatchers.org
Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org
"A tornado?  Why wasn't it dissipated by the weather
modification net?"  --Jean-Luc Picard     || ICQ No. 136862 ||

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