April 3, 1974 Tornado Louisville, Ky

Tornado that hit Louisville, Kentucky, April 3, 1974 ..view from a top the Courier-Journal building looking south towards the fairgrounds

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[watuit]

OH MY GOD THAT THINGS HORRIFYING

[kentuckygirl4574]

I was born on April 5th, 1974 in louisville. Cant believe what happened right before my birth...wow!!!!

[christisunshine]

I had just turned 4 and I was in the backseat of my mom's car. Right after we drove past the fairgrounds, it dropped out of the sky. That is a day I will never forget.

[4evaFiregod]

@speedymar1e all i can say is, screw that week man, that was not fun, and i never thought that i would ever see the ville get hit by a hurricane, but it happend ... crazyness :/

[komradkolonel]

I was four and I remember it like it was yesterday. I used to live on Klondike Lane right across from the elementary school. When I saw it it was ripping through Cherokee Park and the Cherokee Triangle area. It was much bigger than it looks on this video. To this day I've never seen another supercell have that dark green color or move as fast as this one did. The Weather Channel has shown some video of this that I've never seen before.

[35ilikepie]

beautiful

[Jenckles]

My mom always talks about this tornado. She says she ran outside with her father (who was the police chief) and they watched it as it made its way across town. After the storm was over she saw a piece of school paper that sliced its way inside a tree.

[speedymar1e]

To the person who said we are too far inland to be affected by hurricanes: Where were you when Ike blew through?? It killed 4 people in the Ville, knocked power out for 60% of the city- that's hundreds of thousands of folks, and many had no power for a week. Schools were shut down for a week. UPS had to cancel a lot of flights. We got a lot more than rain that day.

[Mrplaystation1251]

@thepathtoepicness i know for cn2

[thepathtoepicness]

NewAlbanylsFun I agree it was badass it was so bad its been 20 years sice that and i still se commercials!!

[thepathtoepicness]

i live in louisville and i live 2 miles from the tornato... to bad im 9 and born in 2002 but my dad lived it and told me ALL about it

[TheMerriamLookout]

@ElenaGeorge1 I left school (Eastern High), and went to my piano lesson at the Univ of Louisville. As we were leaving we thought we saw a large rain storm off on the horizon, except it wasn't rain. Scary day .