ADMIN Notice: CASI's ISP, Vicon.Net, has decreed that the CASILIST is too large and has shut it down. Until we can find another provider there is a chance that the CASILIST will not continue or will slow down considerably. CASI's Web Server Pair.com promised that the CASILIST would be up and running by Feb. 1 1999 but is no longer responding to our emails and may have abandoned the project. This weekend is the anniversary of the Super Outbreak of Twisters on April 3-4, 1974. Below is an article posted to WX-TALK; see also http://personal.accuweather.com/iwxpage/paws/super.htm for a graphic with details, and here: http://www.msnbc.com/local/WCMH/95031.asp for more news. XENIA, Ohio (AP) -- Weather officials hope a day like April 3, 1974, never happens again. But if it does, they want people to be ready. On that day 25 years ago, 148 tornadoes touched down in 13 states in what was the worst outbreak of twisters in U.S. history. When it was over, 330 people were dead and 5,484 injured along a 2,500-mile path of damage. ``It caused this much damage and heartache; it could happen again,'' said Bob Chartuk, spokesman for the National Weather Service. ``There are people 25 years old and younger who have never seen a storm like this.'' The anniversary will be marked a few days early with a program Wednesday featuring weather forecasters, emergency-management officials and tornado eyewitnesses. The program will be held at Xenia High School, which was struck that day by a tornado that left more than 30 people dead and much of the rest of the city destroyed or damaged. ``Xenia was ground zero that day. That's where they had the worst tornado,'' said Chartuk. Host of the event will be Kenneth Haydu, meteorologist in charge of the weather service's office in Wilmington, Ohio. ``We want the public to be aware that deadly storms such as the 1974 outbreak can and will happen again, and we want people to be prepared,'' said Haydu. ``The people who experienced the super-outbreak have an important story to pass on to later generations.'' Fred Fiske, a Dayton salesman who was in Xenia when the tornado struck, said the storm took 10 years off his life. Fiske said he saw three large tornadoes come together and took shelter inside a warehouse. ``A few office girls were on the floor, one praying the Lord's Prayer, another crying,'' Fiske recalled. ``The tornado hit. It blew all of the office windows and doors into the room, and it twisted the steel doors so that we could not get out.'' Susan Hoover of Riverside said she was 11 and at her Xenia home by herself when the tornado struck. ``The roar began, and the house began to shake,'' she recalled. ``The bathroom door flew open and the roof came off the house. I peeked out from under the beach towel to see things fly over -- like our station wagon. I think I passed out at this point.'' Fiske said that after the tornado passed through, people viewed the damage in a daze. ``They looked like zombies,'' he said. Chartuk said the technology for predicting and detecting tornadoes is superior to what it was in 1974. ``We have much better capability, so if we say there's a tornado coming, you better believe there is,'' he said. ``The false-alarm rate has dropped dramatically.'' -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "Andy Warhol had it wrong, Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes *and* have their own Web page." --William Shatner || ICQ No. 136832 ||