1974 Xenia Tornado Reprise Radio Bulletins

Same as the original video, but with some AM radio broadcasts recorded to Compact Cassette. With headphones, crackling lightning can be heard between the announcers' voices.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• 1974
• Xenia
• Tornado
• 1992
• Reprise
• AM
• Radio
• Bulletin
• WHIO
• Dayton
• disaster
• gone
• bad

[datacreed]

Thanks Dave, the announcer, for your comment! Wow.

[stormy5969]

I was working at SRL at the time. We saw it within a half mile of us, heading NE. We all just stood there and watched it. We were all transfixed...in ah. None of us ran.

I was into ham radio at the time, and spent 3 days there. Don't ever want to experience anything like that again...

[datacreed]

@stormy5969

I'm sure your ham radio services were greatly appreciated;

Thanks for watching, and 73's (former KB8KFA).

[biped1of1pandemonium]

I remember when I was about 5...My Dad drove us through Xenia after this happened. It was a sombering experience. I do remember seeing an apartment building that had been ripped in half. You could see all the floors, peoples bath tubs, sinks etc. in plain view.

[datacreed]

Yep, I remember my dad loading us up and taking us out there about a week later. Must've been the tourist attraction for surrounding locals many months afterward. Luckily, my dad also recorded the radio bulletins on cassette tape. Adds a special dimension to the video. I enjoyed making these. Thanks for watching.

[JD19703]

I lived through this tornado in Xenia when I lived in Arrowhead homes where it hit...and I can remember listening for days to the radio after we were allowed to return to our homes...this brought back those memories. I also remember taking in a stray dog that was wandering around in a daze and we were able to find his owner. I remember picking up peoples bills/letters from all over the city in my backyard in all the debris. It did bring people together thought through the tragedy.

[datacreed]

Thanks for sharing. I like to hear real stories of those who were there. I was just a kid in North Dayton at the time, but the threat of a tornado and the unknown was enough for me.

[altfactor]

Could you provide another version of the radio news bulletins without the music backgrounds??

I thought the music actually detracted from these historic soundbites.

[937emoney]

my mother said "it was crazy one moment it was bright sunny day then darkness set i thought it was the end of the world" she opened the back door to look outside and the force of the wind threw her across the rooms kitchen into the living room and she crawled to the couch and hid behind it as it was banging her into the wall..nice video sure my mom would like to see this

[irismania]

I was there that day and went through it. This is haunting to say the least, sent chills up my spine. Thanks for making it.

[ben7778]

@CelticDragon0 The Song is "Mercy Street" by Peter Gabriel.

[TheKimTwister]

I WAS 9 YEARS OLD when this happened  i lived in sw penna

[CombatSportFan]

@pdorn777 I don't think it has been surpassed. Joplin will now be etched in tragic history right next to Xenia, Tupelo, Waco, Wichita Falls, Louisville, Vicksburg, Blackwell, Moore, Andover, Jarrell, Plainfield, Niles, Wheatland, Guin, Tanner, Brandenburg, Delhi, Lubbock, Jackson, Udall, New Richmond, Snyder, Fergus Falls, Big Spring, and so many others that should never be forgotten in the halls of human history.

[phoenixtimes2]

I first saw this video four years ago here in YouTube. I had seen a number of videos before, and a whole lot since, but I have to say, I have not seen one so haunting and compelling as this one. Hearing the bulletins from that day in 1974, combined with a drive through of Xenia, and the song in the background is a very moving experience. I

[daveinnl1]

@datacreed

Thanks.....I'm Dave Durham, the 3rd voice on this video. It's strange to hear yourself after 37 years. I worked at WHIO in 1974 and my wife, whom I married later, lived and worked (accross from the courthouse) in Xenia, and was missing for a while. You, of course, can'r hear it in my voice but I was in a complete panic at the time. She later turned up Ok.

Thanks for the memories.

[DannyDad208]

I was 7 years old. Lived about 3 miles down the road outside of Xenia. My uncle had a home in Arrowhead that survived with minimal damage, but the couple next door were bare to their foundation.... I will never forget the strange shape and color of the clouds and the eerie quiet that late afternoon after the storms passed...plus no power in our house. We were lucky, but it was surreal and scary knowing the violence of what had happened, and then for it to be so calm.

[4615larkc]

i lived in columbus when this happend we had some fallout but wow those poor folks 4 minutes whoa............