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Today in weather history: the 1974 Super Outbreak
Posted on 4/3/16 at 4:34 pm
Posted on 4/3/16 at 4:34 pm
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Posted on 4/3/16 at 4:38 pm to Jim Rockford
Seriously, I am fortunate to say I never experienced a tornado. I can not fathom how one second your home is in tact & the next second everything you have is gone.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 4:41 pm to Jim Rockford
Some cool footage in this old documentary LINK
Posted on 4/3/16 at 4:46 pm to OweO
I was square in the middle of the worst tornado outbreak in Louisiana history ( $property-damage -wise-not death-wise) LINK. I spent it in a bathtub and ended it looking up at the stars, since the roof had been blown away. F4 December 4, 1978 in Bossier City. I was in another one (f1) in Baton Rouge less than a month later. I'm scared of them like a little girl and not even afraid to say it.
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The tornado then crossed Interstate 20 and then Barksdale Boulevard, making its way into the Heart of Bossier Shopping Center and causing extensive damage. As it touched down near the Heart of Bossier Shopping Center, it destroyed Christmas decorations, street lights, and sign posts. Baskin Robbins and Pancho's were among the businesses in the Heart of Bossier Shopping Center which sustained major damage. It continued northeast across Old Minden Road striking a power substation, the Port-au-Prince apartments, the Sheraton Hotel, and Rusheon Junior High School. Two buildings at the Port-au-Prince Apartments lost their roofs and cars throughout the parking lot were piled on top of each other. The Sheraton hotel and Rusheon Junior High School also sustained roof damage and broken windows. As the tornado traveled along Interstate 20, several 18-wheelers were toppled by the winds. It continued parallel to Interstate 20 into the Airline Drive Business District, where it produced widespread F3 damage.[5] In this area, numerous businesses were damaged or completely leveled, including Pizza Hut, the Best Western, the Master Hosts Inn, Whataburger, Thrifty Liquor and K-Mart. A small area surrounding the Whataburger received high-end F3 to marginal F4 winds.[6] One noted anomaly was the minor damage caused to the Whataburger. It was later speculated that the position of the Whataburger situated between two suction vortices.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 4:50 pm to Jim Rockford
See the county in orange in Indiana. I grew up there and that storm wiped out Monticello. The twister knocked off a bus of a bridge killing majority on it. I was 4 at the time...remember the sirens and how destructive the storm was. Scary stuff. The town had to be rebuilt.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 4:53 pm to WildcatMike
I remember being a kid and reading about it in Reader's digest. You know, because that's what we read in the 70's when we weren't browsing through the Sears catalogue bra and panty section.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 4:56 pm to Jim Rockford
Tornadoes are terrible.
Only way to describe them.
Only way to describe them.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 4:57 pm to Jim Rockford
I'm a survivor of this event. One of those tornados destroyed a section of the town I lived in at the time. We had minor damage while being only less than a mile from the path.
A family friend was getting ready for Wednesday night church services when the tornado leveled his home. He hid under a heavy wooden desk and emerged unhurt wearing only his undershirt and boxers.
A family friend was getting ready for Wednesday night church services when the tornado leveled his home. He hid under a heavy wooden desk and emerged unhurt wearing only his undershirt and boxers.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 4:57 pm to Lsupimp
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'm scared of them like a little girl and not even afraid to say it.
Man, you have every right to be scared of them. Sorry you had to go through that.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 4:59 pm to Jim Rockford
TTown never down man.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 5:03 pm to goldenbadger08
Damn, that town in Kentucky had no warning until a guy at the radio station happened to look outside and saw it coming.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 5:04 pm to OweO
Yeah that wiki link has a photo link and I just saw pictures of the hotel I was at for the first time. I thought it was The Sheraton but it was The Best Western. I was on the bottom floor and the second floor was gone.Our car was found like 300 yards away in a pile of cars. The whole place imploded. Still freaks me out. We were lucky to have survived. We knew it was coming and had time to run and get in the tub.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 6:40 pm to Lsupimp
My experience while at School, I believe was one of the worst in BR history.
F3 during hurricane Edith 1971.
That is what was left of the Baskin Robbins at Sherwood and Florida
F3 during hurricane Edith 1971.
That is what was left of the Baskin Robbins at Sherwood and Florida
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