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The 1974 Super Outbreak was the second-largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period, just behind the 2011 Super Outbreak. It was also the most violent tornado outbreak ever recorded, with 30 violent (F4 or F5 rated) tornadoes confirmed.
Super Outbreak of 1974, series of tornadoes that caused severe damage to the Midwestern, southern, and eastern United States and Ontario, Canada, on April 3–4, 1974. One of the largest outbreaks of tornadoes ever recorded, it consisted of 148 tornadoes and resulted in more than $1 billion in damage.
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Apr 3, 2024 · Infamously known as the 1974 Super Outbreak, which lasted from April 3-4, 1974, the Outbreak was the first on record to produce more than 100 tornadoes in a 24-hour period. The onslaught resulted in the loss of 335 lives and $600 million in damages.
Apr 3, 2019 · The April 3-4, 1974 Super Outbreak affected 13 states across the eastern United States, from the Great Lakes region all the way to the Deep South. In all, 148 tornadoes were documented from this event, of which 95 were rated F2 or stronger on the Fujita scale and 30 were F4 or F5.
What happened in 1974 was a “super outbreak” because three different weather patterns collided, writes John Galvin for Popular Mechanics, causing an unprecedented number of tornadoes to...
Apr 3, 2024 · The “Super Outbreak” that struck much of the central and eastern U.S. and parts of Canada on April 3-4, 1974 holds numerous tornado-related records to this day, including the largest number of F5* tornadoes in a single outbreak (Corfidi et al., 2004) and the second-highest number of tornadoes in a single day, behind only the Super Outbreak ...
On a mild Wednesday and Thursday, April 3 and 4, 1974, the United States experienced one of the biggest outbreak of tornadoes in our nation's recorded history. Meteorologists refer to this as the Super Outbreak in which 148 tornadoes swept across 13 states in roughly a 24 hour time frame.
