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  NOAA 200th Transformations: Weather, Water, and Climate Forecasts and Warnings
The April 3-4, 1974, super tornado outbreak was the worst tornado outbreak in U.S. history, with 148 twisters touching down in 13 states.
The 1974 tornado outbreak struck West Virginia and Virginia, leaving a trail of devastation.
The Palm Sunday 1994 tornado outbreak in the South killed 20 worshippers at the Goshen Church in Piedmont, Alabama.
celebrating200years.noaa.gov /transformations/weather/welcome.html   (1864 words)

  
  Super Outbreak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Super Outbreak (sometimes called Jumbo Outbreak) is the largest tornado outbreak on record.
It is believed such an outbreak of this magnitude occurs once every 500 years, according to a 2004 special report of the 30th anniversary of the outbreak on WHAS-TV in Louisville.
During the peak of the outbreak, a staggering fifteen tornadoes were on the ground simultaneously.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Super_Outbreak   (656 words)

  
 Tornado outbreak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While there is no single agreed upon definition, generally more than six tornadoes in a day in the same region is considered a tornado outbreak.
A series of continuous or near continuous tornado outbreaks is a tornado outbreak sequence.
The biggest tornado outbreak on record — with 149 tornadoes, most significantly including six F5 and 24 F4 tornadoes — occurred on April 3-April 4, 1974 across the United States and Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tornado_outbreak   (268 words)

  
 Tornado - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The biggest tornado outbreak on record—with 148 tornadoes, including six F5 and 23 F4 tornadoes—occurred on April 3, 1974.
Another such significant storm system was the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak, which affected the United States Midwest on April 11, 1965.
The National Weather Service office based in Norman, Oklahoma, has created a presentation discussing the use of bridges as protection during the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak that occurred on May 3, 1999, in the region of Oklahoma City where tornadoes passed over three different bridges—at least one person was killed in each instance.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/t/o/r/Tornado.html   (1947 words)

  
 RMS Press Release - April 5, 2004 - 1974 Super Tornado Outbreak   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This would exceed the record-setting losses from an outbreak in May 2003 that caused an estimated $3.13 billion in total insured losses, according to the Property Claims Service of the Insurance Services Office.
The 1974 Super Outbreak developed to the southeast of an extratropical low-pressure system near the Iowa-Illinois border.
"The scale of the geographic area affected by this outbreak is unmatched, and therefore is often viewed as a worst-case tornado event," said Kyle Beatty, RMS meteorologist.
www.rms.com /NewsPress/PR_040504_SuperTo.asp   (333 words)

  
 Jaibo Software | Outbreak
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www.jaibo.net /outbreak/download.htm   (242 words)

  
 P5.2 The Super Outbreak: Outbreak of the Century (2004 - 22SLS)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The 1974 Super Outbreak will be compared to other major tornado outbreaks which have affected the Midwestern United States in the last 50 to 100 years.
It will be shown that the Super Outbreak is by far the most significant such event on record.
It will also be shown that no single factor was responsible for the intensity and extent of the event, but that the outbreak was the result of a fortuitous combination of meteorological factors which proved favorable for the development of numerous, long-lived discrete supercells.
ams.confex.com /ams/11aram22sls/techprogram/paper_82203.htm   (229 words)

  
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It was the worst tornado outbreak in U.S. history with 148 twisters touching down in 11 states.
At one point during the outbreak, 15 twisters were on the ground at the same time.
According to the weather service, the 1974 outbreak debunked several myths, including the notion that tornadoes won't touch down where major rivers meet or that tornadoes won't go up and down steep hills.
www.usatoday.com /weather/tornado/outbreak/wsuper74.htm   (365 words)

  
 1974 Super Outbreak
At least one huge tornado moved through a tri-state area and was the deadliest twister ever.
Also, the tornado outbreak caused the expansion of NOAA Weather Radio to get the warnings out faster to the public.
The 1974 Super Outbreak, a tornado outbreak for the ages.
www.angelfire.com /ga/mrsweather/century8.html   (490 words)

  
 Outbreak
Virus outbreaks occur when a virus bypasses infection control measures and a relatively high number of infections are observed where no cases or sporadic cases occurred in the past.
The study of pathogenic viral outbreaks is a branch of epidemiology and usually refers to virus outbreaks that make people, animals, or plants sick.
As with bacterial outbreaks, viral outbreaks are classified as sporadic (occasional occurrence), endemic (regular cases often occurring in a region), epidemic (an unusually high number of cases in a region), or pandemic (a global epidemic).
www.mrsci.com /Epidemiology/Outbreak.php   (622 words)

  
 Weather Elements: Tornado Outbreaks: Twisters En Masse
On April 3-4, 1974, an outbreak of 148 tornadoes devastated portions of eight American States (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina) and one Canadian Province (Ontario).
A tornado outbreak occurs when a large number (six or more) of tornadoes are formed in groups or individual storms within a 24-48-hour period over a specific geographical area and spawned from the same general weather system.
Local outbreak -- lasts 3 to 7 hours and is confined to a relatively small regional area (approximately 10,000 square miles / 26,000 square kilometres).
www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/elements/outbreak.htm   (467 words)

  
 New suspect in super-pneumonia outbreak - 25 March 2003 - New Scientist   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Microbiologists have identified a second virus that may be involved in the deadly global outbreak of "super-pneumonia", raising the possibility that it may take more than one virus to trigger the disease.
An earlier pneumonia outbreak in China, suspected to be linked, caused five deaths and 305 cases.
The second suspect virus was identified by a team led by Malik Peiris at the University of Hong Kong, which has managed to grow the virus in the lab.
www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn3542   (440 words)

  
 NOAA News Online (Story 345)
The most impressive and devastating tornado outbreak in the 20th century, McCarthy said, was the Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974.
The outbreak lasted 16 hours and produced a total of 148 tornadoes across 13 states from Illinois, Indiana and Michigan southward through the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys into Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
The most prolific tornado outbreak of the 20th century was the Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974.
www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories/s345.htm   (1611 words)

  
 American Red Cross - In the News - Tornadoes of the 20th Century
From the deadliest tornado--the Super Outbreak of 1974 that produced 148 tornadoes and killed 315 people--to the costliest--the 78-tornado outbreak of May 1999 that churned across America's heartland for 21 hours and caused over $1 billion in damages--the list contains the most tremendous tornadoes America has seen over the past 100 years.
The hardest-hit area from a tornado outbreak that churned across Oklahoma and Kansas on May 25, 1955, was Udall, Kansas.
The most monstrous tornado outbreak of the 20th century was the Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974.
www.redcross.org /news/archives/2000/1-4-00.html   (1912 words)

  
 Resident Evil Outbreak Questions and Answers for PlayStation 2
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Infinte mode is where you have unlimited ammo for all the weapons you find (except the daylight gun in the end of decisions decisions, you need the ammo for that gun) and you unlock it by beating every level on very hard.
You should easily find a typewriter any where in a scenerio,there are two in each level.By the way (Watch out for the zombie in hellfire next to the security room hes a hard one to kill).
www.supercheats.com /playstation2/residenteviloutbreakquestions.htm   (1450 words)

  
 The 1974 Super Outbreak: A Model of Nature's Power
This storm was later nickname= d the “Super Outbreak” because it formed a record high 148 tornadoes (“Super Outbreak”).
At the t= ime of the Super Outbreak meteorology equipment was much less powerful than it is = now.
As we pa= ss the thirty year anniversary of the 1974 Super Outbreak I reflect on what we mod= ern Americans have learned.
www.louisville.edu /~wjnort01/April3.1974.mht   (949 words)

  
 Tornadoes
The tornadoes that devastated Indiana were part of an outbreak in which nearly 50 tornadoes struck the Great Lakes region on April 11-12, causing 271 deaths and more than 3,400 injuries.
The most destructive tornado outbreak of the 20th century was the "Super Outbreak" of April 3-4, 1974.
Across the Midwest, this outbreak produced 64 tornadoes in nine states, and caused nine deaths.
www2.indystar.com /library/factfiles/history/weather/tornadoes.html   (965 words)

  
 Texas Panhandle Tornado Outbreak - 2 June 1996
Tornado outbreaks can be one of the most deadly natural disasters, not just in terms of property, but especially in fatalities.
For example, in the 3-4 April 1974 "Super" tornado outbreak, 315 people were killed, 6,142 were injured, and more than 600 million dollars in property damage was recorded.
Analyses of the synoptic, regional, and storm-scale factors that led to this outbreak are examined.
www.ems.psu.edu /~diercks/bryan.html   (702 words)

  
 NOAA's National Weather Service - Birmingham, Alabama
Alabama was one of several states devastated by the "Super Outbreak," as April 3rd and 4th, 1974, has become known.
As this tornado was dissipating, the final storms of the outbreak began their havoc.
This particular day is eclipsed in Alabama only by the tornado outbreak of March 21, 1932, when over 270 people died in a series of tornadoes.
www.srh.noaa.gov /bmx/significant_events/1974/april_1974_superoutbreak/index.php   (747 words)

  
 Historical Tornado Events
Considered the largest outbreak until the Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974.
The worst of the outbreak was in Purvis, Mississippi.
Late season outbreak covered a widespread area from Houston, Texas to Raleigh, North Carolina and from the Gulf Coast to the Ohio Valley.
www.ezl.com /~fireball/Disaster15.htm   (1211 words)

  
 The Weather Notebook | Super Outbreak
HB: Well, April 3 and 4, 1974 is the greatest tornado outbreak in US history.
We can communicate that information to forecasters, and forecasters at offices considered to be downstream of where the outbreak is occurring would have a much better heads-up that this was happening for them.
It's likely that if the Jumbo Outbreak occurred again the death tolls would be much, much lower -- in fact, would almost certainly be below 100 deaths on the day and perhaps even below 50.
www.weathernotebook.org /transcripts/2004/04/05.php   (328 words)

  
 April 3 1974   (Site not responding. Last check: )
1974 - The Super Outbreak occurs, with 148 tornadoes...
outbreak of the 20th century occurred on April 3-4, 1974 and is known as the "Super Outbreak...
Details on the Super Outbreak of Tornadoes that spawned 148 tornadoes, including thirty F4's and six F5's, in one day.
alleytornado.milktornadoes.com /april31974   (719 words)

  
 Asian Super-Bug Outbreak Takes Its Toll -- 04/04/2003
He said he doubted the advisory in itself would have an impact on the territory beyond the affect the outbreak itself had already had.
Tung conceded that Hong Kong residents should be concerned about the effect of the outbreak on the economy, but said his priority was now to fight and beat the virus, which has infected 734 people and killed 17 there.
In mainland China (1190 cases, 47 deaths), by contrast, Health Minister Zhang Wenkang insisted that it was safe to travel to and work in the country, and asked travelers not to cancel scheduled visits.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200304\FOR20030404b.html   (546 words)

  
 Cincinnati Area Tornado Photos - 1974
The only tornado of 148 in the April 3-4, 1974 Super Outbreak to occur in 3 states.
The Sayler Park tornado was the most photographed of all the 148 in the Super Outbreak and Professor
This is listed as tornadoes 43, 44 and 45 of the Super Outbreak of 1974.
www.shorstmeyer.com /tornadoes/1974.html   (309 words)

  
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - Outlook - Tornadoes - Fast Facts About Tornadoes
Biggest, Costliest Outbreaks -- The April 3-4, 1974 Super Outbreak was the largest known outbreak, with 148 tornadoes in 11 states, killing 315 people, injuring more than 5,300 and causing $600 million in damages.
Perhaps the most notable tornado of the outbreak was one which touched down southwest of Xenia, Ohio.
The second most devastating outbreak of tornadoes of modern record was the 1965 Palm Sunday outbreak.
www.outlook.noaa.gov /tornfact.htm   (670 words)

  
 Thirty-one super-pneumonia deaths revealed in China - 26 March 2003 - New Scientist Tech   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Despite a deadly worldwide outbreak of fatal pneumonia, which appears highly likely to be linked, the Chinese government had previously only admitted to five deaths and 305 infections.
It also claimed the outbreak had died out at the beginning of February, but the Guangzhou Daily says the illness raged until at least the end of the month.
It is not known whether the outbreak has now subsided.
www.newscientisttech.com /article/dn3552   (396 words)

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