 Home The devastating tornadoes that struck Ohio during the afternoon and early evening of April 3 killed 41, injured 2,000, and damaged about 7,000 homes. Most of the tornado activity occurred between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. CDT. Hardest hit was Xenia (Greene County), where one of the most intense tornadoes of the outbreak (37) roared in shortly after 3:30 p.m. CDT (4:30 p.m. EDT), leaving in its wake over 30 dead, more than 1,100 injured, and more than 1,000 homes destroyed. The damage path varied in width from one-quarter to one-half mile. This storm lifted near Plattsburg, but subsequent tornado touchdowns (38 and 39) occurred in its projected path through sections of Clark, Madison, and Franklin Counties. Less than an hour later, between about 4:30 and 5:10 p.m. CDT, other tornadoes (43, 44, and 45) struck the western and northern portions of the greater Cincinnati area. Twin funnels were reported for two of these storms. These tornadoes caused four deaths, two in mobile homes. Weaker tornadoes (23, 25, 27,
50 and 55) were reported between 7:00 and 7:30 p.m. CDT in Paulding,
Putnam, Brown and Adams Counties. |