Cincinnati April 3 1974 F5 Tornado
F5 Tornado Cincinnati Ohio April 3, 1974 | Here's the beast. I had never seen anything like this in my life. I was speechless and somewhat frightened. I was 21 years old. Copyright 1974 Tim Carter ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - DO NOT REPRODUCE without permission
F5 Cincinnati April 3, 1974 Tornado - Stunning to Behold
On April 3, 1974 I witnessed the F5 tornado start to break up and go back up into the sky. I was standing in the middle of Riddle View Lane in Clifton Heights.
This tornado touched ground at about 5:30 PM just north of Rising Sun, Indiana. It then crossed over the mighty Ohio River into northern Kentucky. It then re-crossed the Ohio River targeting Sayler Park, the far-western Cincinnati suburb along the Ohio River.
The magenta line represents the line of sight I had from the center of Riddle View Lane to the base of the tornado in the photo above as it was departing the suburb of White Oak, Cincinnati. The red arrows indicate the rough path of the tornado after it crossed the Ohio River. (C) 2022 Google Maps
After pulverizing the floating restaurant on a barge my father-in-law built, and countless houses and businesses in Sayler Park, the swirling tornado then clawed its way up out of the river valley ravaging Bridgetown, Mack, Dent, and Delhi, Ohio.
This tornado was just one of many in the historic Super Tornado Outbreak that spanned April 3-4, 1974.
By the time it got to White Oak, it started to dissipate. This is when it came into view on my street, as seen in the above photograph. Here are a few other photos of the beast that moments before killed three people and injured 210 others.
April 3, 1974 F5 Cincinnati Tornado | I captured this photograph standing in front of my childhood home. There was no sound just a surreal spiral dance in the sky. Copyright 1974 Tim Carter ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - DO NOT REPRODUCE without permission
The tornado lost its appetite for killing and maiming and is going back up into its lair. Copyright 1974 Tim Carter ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - DO NOT REPRODUCE without permission
Thanks, Tim, for the info you send out. I'm enjoying your newsletters. I have a BUNCH of slides that my father took of our family, etc. Wpuld like to get them scanned to digital. I have taken some to photo shops in the past to copy, but would like to do them myself. Do you have a recommendation on a brand of slide scanner?
Thank you!
I remember that day very well. A tornado destroyed our house while we were sheltering in the crawlspace. One moment we could hear nothing but the roar and the next we were looking at the sky. We lived in Palmyra, Indiana then.
Hello, my parents were near a tornado over 40 years ago In Illinois. Missed them by less then a mile. Before cell phones a the better radar systems. Anyway I also have some of their old slides I would like to convert, how are you converting them? Sending them out to a vendor?