Sayler Park, Ohio Tornado

This is a video clip of the tornado that occurred near Sayler Park, Ohio on April 3, 1974. This is one of the 148 twisters that happened during the Super Outbreak. This tornado was rated F5. It originally touched down in Indiana before moving through Kentucky and then into Ohio. In this video clip the tornado is crossing the Ohio River near Sayler Park.

For more information and photographs of this tornado:
http://www.shorstmeyer.com/tornadoes/1974.html
http://www.april31974.com/tornado_photos_from_sayler_park.htm

EDIT:

I had originally linked to more footage of this tornado on a news channel's website but it appears that it no longer plays the video so I uploaded that clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOHkyM6CC-c

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[XOitachiXO]

Woah can u tell me what county this is cuz i dont remember this

[ColonelAngus75]

It would be moving into Hamilton county in this clip.

[lowbridgenc]

That's not all that far from where my wife is from, and just a few months before she was born.

[ColonelAngus75]

Have you seen the "Day of the Killer Tornadoes" video I have put up? It has more footage of this tornado and also the Xenia, Ohio tornado as well. Not to mention Oscar worthy reenactments by some of the survivors.

[kylex102]

this one pulverized Xenia right?

[ColonelAngus75]

This was a different tornado than the one that struck Xenia.

[amyneal02]

I remember when I was seven years old standing in the foyer while my dad and older brother stood on the front porch; we all were watching a tornado coming towards our home in West Chester, OH. My mother grabbed me, my younger brother and got us to the basement. Three minutes later my older brother and dad came bounding downstairs (missing a few steps along the way) yelling "here she comes!!" By the Grace of God it changed course. Never will forget it!!! Thanks for the footage!

[pccp]

There were six confirmed F-5 tornadoes during the Super Outbreak. The Sayler Park tornado did something not done since the infamous Tri-State killer storm of 1925, when it plowed through Indiana and Kentucky before crossing the Ohio River into Cincinnati. Despite the massive strength of the storm, only three people were killed. By comparison, the Tri-State tornado killed nearly 700, the worst single tornado in U.S. history. Thanks for the footage.

[abfabhippy]

This was an F4 and went through the butler warren area off of 42 in Sharonville.

[abfabhippy]

I was 6 and standing outside and my family was standing in the back yard less than one mile from the edge of the total destruction it created on Mcauly Road off Feilds Ertel Road. I still freak when bad storms start up around here!

[ChainBreakerHQ2]

i didn't know they sold color-making cameras in the 70's.

[southsidekid200]

looks like a funnel cloud trying to form into a tornado

[pacific707]

I will never, ever forget this day in 1974 and I'll always remember how terrified I was, for hours and hours. Our tornado sirens, in Ft. Thomas Ky. went off around 3:00 a.m. and my Mom and I looked out of our front door toward downtown Cincinnati, and the entire sky was pink/red and everything was perfectly calm, except for those roaring tornado sirens right up the street. I was 13. I was extremely scared.

[Neopets112]

i was on shelby when a tornado hit us

[marinabreeze]

@shannonth3hotty You have no clue what you are even talking about. I think you're mistaking wherever you're from for the area around Sayler Park (which is in fact a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio). It was no dust storm, it was definitely a tornado.

My fiance is from Sayler Park, and while he wasn't born back then, his family lived through the tornado. While their house survived intact (it's an old and sturdy Civil War-era house), a lot of others did not. It was a serious storm.

[shannonth3hotty]

Not to be rude or anything but i live in mantua witch is really close to shaylersville and shaylers park and that is not a tornado that a dust storm......... BUT it could of formed into a torando i guess.

[tremer88]

i had a dream just last night i was chasing a tornado

[mrwheelsable]

this is scary