re: 50 years ago (April 3, 1974)

I will try to add some more stuff to this thread later, but I would encourage everyone to read about the Guin, Alabama tornado on the night of April 3rd. Guin is a small, rural town in northwest Alabama. I believe this tornado was one of the most violent to ever occur in the United States since we started keeping records on tornadoes.

Here is an interview James Spann did with former National Weather Service Birmingham meteorologist J.B. Elliott who surveyed the damage in Guin. The video is about the outbreak as a whole, but they spend a good bit of time on the Guin tornado.

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