There was an eerie stillness in the air around midafternoon. At that point, residents of Xenia, Ohio, were still unaware of the disaster that would soon strike.
Damage in Xenia, Ohio, following an F5 tornado on April 3, 1974. By Matthew Cappucci April 3 at 12:02 PM For young Sherri Mash, April 3, 1974, started like any other Wednesday in Xenia, a small city outside of Dayton, Ohio.
“He kept talking about rotation,” Mash remembered, although the weather didn’t seem that bad. In fact, quite the contrary — it was unusually quiet. Mash described an eerie stillness in the air around midafternoon. “It was moving very fast,” said Mark Schmitt, 66, who had just finished his workday in the physical therapy clinic of Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia. And he was right — at the time, the tornado was barreling forward at 50 mph. “It was big and black and was wrapped in so much debris.
Many were. The final death toll came to 34, the deadliest single tornado of the April 3, 1974, Super Outbreak. Over the span of 18 hours, 148 tornadoes touched down, ravaging the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. More than 300 people lost their lives in the region. It was the deadliest tornado outbreak to date. Seven of the tornadoes would be rated “hell on Earth”: F5, with winds over 260 mph.
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