Xenia Tornado

Video and Images of the April 3, 1974 Xenia Ohio Tornado

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[usgitmo33]

@meddetect10 two small tornadoes that emerged into a half-mile wide tornado. yes two that emerged into one

[davnic19]

I lived in Yellow Springs about 8 miles away..softball size hail there. 2 days later went to Xenia to distribute food. Looked like bombed out WW2 city. Later worked with a man who was the manager at McDonalds. He took all customers to basement. They were not injured, but were trapped in for awhile.

In Yellow Springs we had more tornado sirens later that night...slept in unfinished cellar for safety.

[meddetect10]

At 2:55 it looked like two funnels. Was it ever confirmed it was a single large tornado or two?

[joeboxer0424]

OH GOD!!!!!! im glad i was in Portage County!

[AugustAngst50]

I was 23 and living in Yellow Springs... just a few miles North of Xenia. I'll never forget the sky color, and the softball-sized hail stones! A very tragic, scary day... and so much damage.

[MawaRenee]

@RhondaClark61 My Father was caught in the tornado. his house was torn to shreds. he talks about how he lost everything in the tornado. it must have been extremely scary.

[JDCoolMan21]

My mom was in this, working in a hair salon in the middle of town. Said the weather got really bad outside, so everyone went into the back room. There was a woman with her two small kids who wanted to look out the giant plate glass windows of the salon at the weather. Everyone tried to make her come in, but she wouldn't listen. After everything passed they came out of the back room and the woman and kids were gone and the windows shattered. As the story goes.

[RhondaClark61]

I was 12 years old and lived on Center St. in Xenia when this tornado came through. It was a horrible day for all Xenia residents and for our entire city! Xenia has never fully recovered.

[Binabik56]

We were about 5 miles west waiting in our cars for another team to show up for a soccer game. I remember the sky darkening to the south, and the sky near us turned yellowish. I can't remember if there was rain, but we got some hail.

Soccer is an "all-weather" sport. We didn't know about the tornado warnings so when the other team didn't show up we thought they were wimps. We gave up waiting and on the way home is when I heard the sirens and radio announcement that a large tornado hit Xenia.

[ledaohio]

I was 7 and hid under the couch in the hall!!!!