Listening to the WHAS broadcast from 4/3/74.

It's crazy how much weather reporting/broadcasting has changed since then... It seems so, relaxed, compared to today.

I remember it well also. I was in high school and I remember my friends parents desperately trying to get word from their daughter who was away at college. Those were the days when dorms had only a few land lines for everyone. Fortunately all were well.

I was 2 months old.

I'm kinda blown away that there are some that hadn't at least heard of it. It happened 9 years before I was born and we have no family that was in the line of fire, but I'm pretty familiar with it.

 

I've listened to this recording more than once. This is from Xenia, OH, which was I believe the deadliest tornado that hit. It gets pretty scary loud towards the end. I couldn't imagine being anywhere near that.

 

Xenia Tornado Actual Audio (Audio link is mid page)

 

That was scary to listen to...

Brandonburg basically destroyed. Majority of Kentucky deaths were there.

 

Louisville twister hit neighborhoods and Cherokee park and Fairgrounds but mostly missed packed rush hour expressways - that my father was on that day. I remember mother being worried as reports came in.

Easy to remember. I was a freshman at Morehead and it was pretty much my first experience with tornado warnings, being from the 'burbs of Baltimore.

 

A bunch of us "borrowed" cafeteria trays and slid down the much-soaked hills in front of a couple of the girls' dorms. I'm sure they were suitably impressed with us.

It's crazy how much weather reporting/broadcasting has changed since then... It seems so, relaxed, compared to today.

 

 

Well, nWo wasn't on the job back then.

We were at my grandparents' house in Madison, Ind., and I was but a toddler but recall that night well. Much fear in the adults' voices as they herded my cousin and I into the old bathtub for protection.

 

Their house was in the downtown area, just two blocks from the river. Up above us on the hill, crazy stuff was going on. I remember for years going by a subdivision that was just completed prior to that day; it lay in rubble for a good decade before they redeveloped the land. Sort of an unintended long-time reminder of the destruction.

 

The roof of the high school my father and his siblings attended -- perhaps 1,000 yards away from the subdivision I mentioned -- was ripped right off.

 

I remember it well, we spent most of the night at the neighbors with the kids sleeping in the floor and and the adults up listening to the radio and watching TV. A good friend of my mom and dad lost his mom and dad that night when their house was hit dead on by a twister. I remember driving around looking at the damage the next day and remember seeing 3 or 4 houses in a row destroyed and the very next building was a small church house that didn't have a shingle missing.

 

Neighbor late that afternoon swore he saw debris up in the jet stream. This was hours prior to our local tornadoes but after they had hit out west in the same storm system.

 

All I remember seeing was the sky was sea foam green late that afternoon.

 

Wow. So sad & devastating.

Stories around Frankfort say that when the tornado crossed the Kentucky River, you could see the river bed... Completely displaced the water. They also found papers from Xenia, OH in the yard.

Remember it well. 4th grade at St. Pauls in Florence.

Remember getting home to Union and standing out back of the house looking into the distance for twisters. Then going into the basement listening to the transistor radio.

Remember it well. 4th grade at St. Pauls in Florence.

Remember getting home to Union and standing out back of the house looking into the distance for twisters. Then going into the basement listening to the transistor radio.

Hadn't heard that term in a very long time.