The Trail of Destruction Left by This Ohio Twister 

What a dangerous assumption weather forecasters made. As if it only hits trailer parks...

My mom was a teenager living on the west side, Delhi, and watched this from her driveway. She talks about it to this day. Says it was one of the most terrifying days of her life. She said you could see large debris swirling, and that it looked all black at that point.

I was 4yo at the time and lived in a house in Cheviot, directly in the path of this one. I remember my older sister dragging me down to the basement and making me stay under a strong tool bench. I was angry at her because I wanted to go upstairs and see it. My parents were trying to warn the next door neighbors and they saw the tornado just as it finally broke up. It missed us by less than a mile.

Thank you for sharing this. I live in Alabama and grew up with tornadoes. I’m 2011 my town was hit with the worst tornado in my life. I use to be brave but I’m not so brave anymore. 💖

I was 3 years old when this happened. My family lived on the west side and my mom actually saw this tornado come close to our neighborhood although it thankfully did not hit us. My dad was a firefighter and saw the tornado while driving on the truck. He recounted seeing debris and birds in the tornado.

I was 7 and lived in an apartment in Pricehill in Ohio. I remember being in a laundry room in the basement but what I’ll never forget is the loud roaring sound and coming out and seeing the apt windows blown out. But I remember Saylor park got it the worst.

This when you realise Nature is the real boss of your life.🌩️

Watched it from a partially underground garage as it went through Dent (Green Township). It left a 1/4 to half mile path stripped right down to the dirt. Dropped a huge catfish, presumably from the Ohio River out in the backyard. Neighbor's cat couldn't figure out what to do with it. Took a lot of homes. Saylor Park got worse, if you can get worse than an F5.

An hour and a half earlier I watched an F5 tornado approach and pass through Xenia, Ohio. It was 3April1974 the day of the Super Outbreak. I saw this tornado on television at a neighbor's house.

Before it hit Saylor Park it passed though Hebron then crossed the Ohio. Tore up my uncles farm. Livestock , Silo and a barn. Was quite a mess.. Different days then.. Tools have improved since those days and humans more densely populated.

I'm from Cincinnati (b. 1973) and had no idea about this. More recently they had one touch down in the NE side near Kenwood. I drove through and could see the snapped trees and path. Not quite as strong but it doesn't really have to be if you are in the way. -Henry

I am from Glendale. I remember looking at live footage of the Sayler Park tornado on WCPO TV. I remember right before that, there was a warning system that talked about a tornado watch, which then turned into a tornado warning. Although it did not hit Glendale, we were pretty scared. I remember it rained ping pong ball-sized hailstones, which later after the rain stopped, turned into softball- sized ones. I was only 9 years old. I remember standing out on the front porch and seeing and hearing the softball-size hailstones falling and hitting the roof, while many fell into the yard. I had never seen anything like it.

This leveled my moms neighborhood on the west side. no one in her family of 10 was injured

It’s a miracle that there hasn’t been a really devastating tornado in a highly populated area

I was 10 and was in Sayler Park when this happened. I had two brothers working on a riverboat and another brother working downtown. We thought they were dead, they thought we were dead. What a happy reunion we had when we saw them running up the street later that evening! Our street had little damage but many historical homes were destroyed along with the subdivision but no one died in Sayler Park.

When the funnel cloud touches ground it becomes a tornado.

Beautifull video good

West side is the best side. 1974 Sayler Park 8mm film here looks almost identical to where I sit (near Fernbank) 50 yrs later.

I’ve always been fascinated with meteorology. I live in Corpus Christi, Texas. We don’t deal with tornadoes down here much. But we are a part of hurricane alley. Each and every year gets a little unsettling.

I remember this I was 4 months pregnant watching it coming across the river will always remember this flatten everything in the park and subdivision was decimated

so glad we don't have tornado's here

Why no reports from Les Nessman and WKRP?

This is part of the Xenia Ohio tornado in 1974. I do remember hearing that it first went through Cincinnati including the downtown area then it headed Northeast towards Xenia.

and to think, last night we had a tornado warning (a spotting) in that same are!

Nature always wins

Yeah this tornado is forgotten about because more emphasis is put on the Xenia tornado.

The Ft. Worth TX tornado of 28March2000 blew windows out of many skyscrapers in a direct hit on downtown.

Check into the Oak Lawn and Rockford tornadoes of 1967.

I was 6 and living in Clifton.

I believe that this was the twister that came over our house. I grew up in Clifton... and my mum was getting ready to go to the Hospital (she was an doctor and ON CALL) My dad was standing outside on the back stoop of our house and he is excited and all like "HEY look at this storm" am i am crying.. and had put all my stuffed animals in the back of my mum's car (cause I heard that was the safest place you could be in a storm!!).. Later, my dad was telling me how this tornado ripped through down town Cincinnati.... ugh..

I’ve always been really scared of tornadoes and partly hurricanes. I live in a place that we don’t usually get tornadoes. But when I’m on vacation, like I am right now, in places in the more midwest area, I am constantly going down a rabbit hole through google searching things up about tornadoes and natural disasters in the area I’m in. Does anyone have any experiences they could share? Maybe some things to reassure me to not be so scared of them??

Now this is An O H I O M E M E

i’m from cincinnati and i never even knew about this!!!!

What he’d it go through Green Twp from our back yard in Cheviot on Washington Ave

I remember this on the evening news.

Crazy

1997

ONLY in ohio

ONLY IN OHIO 💀💀💀

There was 3 Tornado coming across two of them adjoined and made one huge tornado

I saw a girl fly through the sky and I looked up her skirt

My mom (she was 17 year old at the time) survived this tornado. She told me it went down her street and missed her house. She said she still remembers the sound. Not many people can say they experienced and survived an F-5 tornado. Crazy.