In Remembrance Of The Super Outbreak Of 1974.

As everyone well knows on April 3rd and 4th the worst tornado outbreak in US history.  148 tornadoes touched down in that 24 hour period in 13 states killing 315 people and injuring more than 6000. Here is information about the strongest of the Outbreak
Never before had so many violent (F4 and F5) tornadoes been observed in a single weather phenomenon.
There were six F5 tornadoes and 24 F4 tornadoes. The
outbreak began in Morris Illinois, at around 1 p.m. on April 3. As the
storm system moved east where daytime heating had made the air more
unstable, the tornadoes grew more intense. A tornado that struck near Monticello, Indiana was an F4 and
had a path length of 121 miles (193.6 km), the longest path length of
any tornado for this outbreak. Nineteen people were killed in this
tornado.However, the first F5 tornado of the day struck the city of Xenia Ohio (the strongest and deadliest of the outbreak, at 4:40 pm EDT. It killed 34, injured 1,150, completely
destroyed about one-fourth of the city, and caused serious damage in
another fourth of the city. There where also 2 F5 tornadoes that hit Alabama that day one in Tanner in Limestone County and the other Wiped out the town of Guin in Marion County. What many people might not know there was another small outbreak of tornadoes on April 1st 1974 leading up to the Super Outbreak with 6 of those also in Alabama. So from April 1st to April 4th there were 171 tornadoes ( 148 during the Super Outbreak) with 322 people killed. Will this type of event ever happen again it just might but when and where we just do not know. We have better warning sysytems now and our NWS Meteorologists are better equipped to monitor all weather events everywhere.