Remember April 3rd in Kentucky?

[trust me]

Anybody remember why April 3 is a date to remember in Kentucky? Last night should have been a reminder...you younguns might not have been around, but I bet a lot of us remember that day vividly.

[Buford]

I do. I was 7. My dad's office was on bardstown road and the tornado hit as he got in his car-which was totalled. He walked overland to St Matthews and eventually hitched a ride home. He had little cuts all over him and glass in his shirt pocket.

[kyfanatic]

What year was that 1974 ? I remember all the tornados well,didn't affect my family.but sure did thousands of others.

[trust me]

It was 1974, April 3, a Wednesday afternoon. I was a rugrat playing outside, and that was the blackest sky to the North of us that I have seen to this day.

[schuyler olt]

I was in my hometown, Xenia, Ohio, which then had a population of around 29,000 people. The storm killed 38, injured hundreds, and destroyed several hundred homes. It got all but one school--the high school was completely flattened, and got just about every government building and church. When it went through the center of town, the tornado was an F-5 and nearly one mile across at the base.

It hit a subdivision built on slabs, and there were entire streets that did not need much more than a broom to clean up, as the storm took all the belongings and debris with it. That was an unbelievable sight.

[150PandY]

I was still half egg/ half sperm at that time!

[Turtleky]

I was still half egg/ half sperm at that time!

It was a couple years before me too.

[keith meador]

i was in the back yard playing baseball...we could see the tornados on the south side of the interstate as they passed thru the evergreen rd and jones lane area south of franfort. we picked up hail the size of a youth baseball from our yard....my mom, who was in the kitchen baking cookies, never said a word...we hid in the garage out back until the hail quit and went right back to our baseball game, using hail as the balls.....

[C.L.Button]

I was in the Armor school at Ft.Knox. Spent the rest of that day on a Medovac Chopper searching for survivors from Brandenburg. I helped to pull a KY State Trooper out of his car after a 2x4 went thru his door and thru his abdomin. It was ugly and it flattened that town. I do not remember how many died there, but it was tooo many. Mother Nature kicked a$$ that day !

[trust me]

I do not remember how many died there, but it was tooo many.

iirc, it was 28 or 30. It hit the downtown area in Brandenburg too, and I think that was where most of Kentucky's fatalities occurred.

I was just a kid but I can still remember reading the C-J articles and seeing the damage in Louisville around Shawnee. They ran a photo taken of grieving family members at a Brandenburg funeral, and I can remember being shocked that somebody would publish a picture taken at such a private intense moment.

[schuyler olt]

31 were killed at Brandenburg. That was the second-highest death toll that day, which is also the record for the greatest number of tornadoes in a single day--148. There were over 300 killed and over 5000 hospitalized, 1150 of which came from Xenia.

[Kentuck]

I was 11 and was playing in the garage with my cousin and the garage door was up. I remember it raining really hard and then it just stopped. My mom opened the door to the house and yelled at us to get in the basement. We waited it out there. It didn't get too close to us but I was in the Boy Scouts at the time and they called us out to help clean up some of the hard hit areas. I'll never forget some of those images I saw going into some of those areas.

Here is a website I found last year on that is about that day:

http://www.april31974.com/brandenburg_ky_april_3_1974.htm

[naturalelite]

I was looking at the weather and I had to bring this one back to life.

[C.L.Button]

Sky, I was also affected by the storms at Xenia in 74. My wife at the time was from Xenia. It wiped out her parents house. It was an ugly day all around. Hope everyone makes it thru ok today. ;)

[nwest]

Well I wasn't even a twinkle in the old mans eyes then, but I have heard them talk about it. it is lookin kinda nasty out the window now, hope this is not that bad.

[quackrstackr]

I was looking at the weather and I had to bring this one back to life.

I'm under a tornado warning right this minute.

There's a nasty cell going through the north part of Calloway right now.

[C.L.Button]

Here is a website I found last year on that is about that day:

http://www.april31974.com/brandenburg_ky_april_3_1974.htm

WOW I just looked at some of those pictures and found before and after shots from one of my sister in laws houses. It was blown away. THANKS for the links Kentuck. ;)

[nwest]

I'm under a tornado warning right this minute.

There's a nasty cell going through the north part of Calloway right now.


Talkin about softball sized hail comin my way fast:eek:


KYC003-009-029-031-053-057-061-085-087-093-099-123-141-169-171-
183-213-227-040200-
/O.CON.KLMK.SV.A.0113.000000T0000Z-070404T0200Z/

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 113 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 10 PM EDT /9 PM
CDT/ THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN KENTUCKY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 18 COUNTIES

IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

BULLITT KY HARDIN KY LARUE KY

IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY

OHIO KY

IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

ALLEN KY BARREN KY BUTLER KY
CLINTON KY CUMBERLAND KY EDMONSON KY
GRAYSON KY GREEN KY HART KY
LOGAN KY METCALFE KY MONROE KY
SIMPSON KY WARREN KY

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ALBANY...BEAVER DAM...
BOWLING GREEN...BROWNSVILLE...BURKESVILLE...EDMONTON...
ELIZABETHTOWN...FORT KNOX...FRANKLIN...GLASGOW...GREENSBURG...
HODGENVILLE...LEITCHFIELD...MORGANTOWN...MOUNT WASHINGTON...
MUNFORDVILLE...RUSSELLVILLE...SCOTTSVILLE...
SHEPHERDSVILLE AND TOMPKINSVILLE.

[KYhunter79]

My mom and her family and my dad and his family were both in it. They both lived in the Brandenburg area. I still live 9 miles from there.

[KYhunter79]

Talkin about softball sized hail comin my way fast:eek:


KYC003-009-029-031-053-057-061-085-087-093-099-123-141-169-171-
183-213-227-040200-
/O.CON.KLMK.SV.A.0113.000000T0000Z-070404T0200Z/

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 113 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 10 PM EDT /9 PM
CDT/ THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN KENTUCKY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 18 COUNTIES

IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

BULLITT KY HARDIN KY LARUE KY

IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY

OHIO KY

IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

ALLEN KY BARREN KY BUTLER KY
CLINTON KY CUMBERLAND KY EDMONSON KY
GRAYSON KY GREEN KY HART KY
LOGAN KY METCALFE KY MONROE KY
SIMPSON KY WARREN KY

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ALBANY...BEAVER DAM...
BOWLING GREEN...BROWNSVILLE...BURKESVILLE...EDMONTON...
ELIZABETHTOWN...FORT KNOX...FRANKLIN...GLASGOW...GREENSBURG...
HODGENVILLE...LEITCHFIELD...MORGANTOWN...MOUNT WASHINGTON...
MUNFORDVILLE...RUSSELLVILLE...SCOTTSVILLE...
SHEPHERDSVILLE AND TOMPKINSVILLE.

We had some marble sized hail for about ten minutes around here earlier.

[nwest]

We had some marble sized hail for about ten minutes around here earlier.

If I get any softball size:eek: I will have to get some pictures, for the insurance company:D

[ecmbowhunter]

It appears Paducah is about to get hit hard.

[john4]

Passing through west to east right now. Hope everyone is safe

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=pah&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

[quackrstackr]

From what I'm watching on NOAA, we just dodged the biggest bullet from this one.. unless some of that baseball size hail is coming in this next line.

[nwest]

Not much here in this corner of larue county, heavy rain lots of lightning

[quackrstackr]

Man alive.. I spoke too soon.

These cells going off the charts in intensity in a matter of minutes. :eek:

[kyhunter270]

I was just shy of 11 yrs. old and remember it like it was yesterday, hope we don't have to endure that kind of day ever again.

[killinmammals]

I have heard plent of stories about that day. My dad was in Louisville and Great Aunt in Ohio. Some scary stuff. Its getting REALLY windy and nasty here in BG now, I haven't seen it this windy in forever!! Sun was shinning and I was fishing then 10 minutes later the sky was solid black!!! Hope was don't get it too bad!

[naturalelite]

I hope everyone comes out of this one safe. I see they just had a tornado warning in taylor county right now.

[Art]

They had a special on TV tonight about April 3rd. I've heard stories about that day but I was just an itch in my daddies pocket then so I missed out.

[bcdh1]

My parents hadn't even met then. I think they were in high school then.

[naturalelite]

&*#$ that was nasty. I hope you northern Pulaski County boys are ok.

[MsgMills]

Heck I remember, we had just gotten off the school bus and the tornado's hit about 10 minutes later...Wiped nearly almost the entire Daisy Hill society off the Mountain.......Plus destroyed a few business's as well. We got lucky it missed our house and our neighbors all around us within a 5 mile stretch...But everyone else go damage of some sorts out of the SCARY A$$ sounding Train when it hit....:eek::eek::eek:

[BigDaddy]

Anybody had any storm damage in their neck of the woods? We had a little hail damage and some trees down here in Warren County, but nothing major

[naturalelite]

Reports around the county in Pulaski are saying roof's torn off and a bunch of trees down In/around Somerset. I think northern Pulaski got it the worst but haven't actually gotten any reports from up there yet. Just going by what the radar was showing.

[quackrstackr]

It was dark when it hit here but I don't think we got it as bad as north and south of here did.

I may have a tree down in the back for all I know but it will have to wait until morning to know for sure.

Still heavy lightning around here.

[Wes McClain]

I can remember it like it was yesterday,i was 8 years old and we were out in my moms car on the other side of frankfort when they came threw,the hail was as big a baseballs and it knocked the windows out of our car she had a hard time trying to keep me in the car because i was wanting to get out and play in it.i cant remember what hurt the most the hail or her hand hitting my ass ..:D

[MsgMills]

I can remember it like it was yesterday,i was 8 years old and we were out in my moms car on the other side of frankfort, she had a hard time trying to keep me in the car because i was wanting to get out and play in it.i cant remember what hurt the most the hail or her hand hitting my ass ..:D

Ah yes, boys will be boys...I laughed for a few seconds as I read your post.....:D Brought back fond memories of my ass being beat a few times for crazy stunts like yours.....:D

[Wes McClain]

Yes i had alot of rearend damage that night,i'm glad that storms over with...:D

[KY_Fried]

I was there but don't remember any of it since I was still in my mamma's belly at the time. Her and my grandma were trapped in the basement for hours after it all went down. Almost completely leveled the house they were in.

[turk2di]

Anybody remember why April 3 is a date to remember in Kentucky? Last night should have been a reminder...you younguns might not have been around, but I bet a lot of us remember that day vividly.

I remember. I was in High school when it passed thru the area! Hailed here in Henderson that afternoon.

[schuyler olt]

Last evening while the storm was coming through Louisville the Weather Channel was comparing this outbreak to the one in 1973. They showed a bunch of film from Xenia, where I was that day. I was struck by how vivid my memory is of that day and the days that followed.

Hope everyone made it through safely. By God's Grace we dodged the bullet here, by and large.

[droopy]

Anybody had any storm damage in their neck of the woods? We had a little hail damage and some trees down here in Warren County, but nothing major
we had some siding and trim blown off the house and my basement doors blown out,my niebors barn is pretty well trashed and another nieghbors roof gone off thier house.but good thing is nobody hurt.also some guys from my fire dept.spent most of the night cutting trees out of roads.

[Feedman]

I remember 1974 real well. It was one hell of a storm.

Last night it blew 9 tress down in our neighborhood. I lost one in my front yard.

[toddmerida]

the storm last night blew the roof off of my back porch and set it down in my front yard. lucky though, the only damage was to the porch that we were getting ready to tear down anyway