The Xenia tornado of April 3, 1974 was a violent F5 tornado that struck Xenia, Ohio,
Without warning, killing 32 people, injuring hundreds, and leveling half the city12.
It also remains amongst the top 10 costliest U.S. tornadoes on record2.
The tornado tore a path of destruction, destroying homes, schools, and businesses3.
Tornadoes, climate change and why Dixie is the new Tornado Alley (theconversation.com)
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Cleanup continues after tornadoes touched down across Miami …
MIAMI VALLEY — Feb 29, 2024 · Cleanup is now underway
after two confirmed tornadoes touched down.
Is the Miami Valley Part of a new Tornado Alley? | WHIO-TV (youtube.com)
Story by WHIO Staff, Austin Chaney
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The Miami Valley has been hit hard with severe weather this season.
There have been seven confirmed tornadoes locally and 30 across the state.
And we, here at Storm Center 7, have been here with you through it all.
So, the big question is “What in the world is going on?” says Storm Center 7 Chief Meteorologist Austin Chaney.
Indian Lake Ohio Tornado – March 14 – Search (bing.com)
Upon further investigation of both February 28 and March 14, the meteorologist says there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary to cause severe weather.
We just had the right ingredients come together twice.
Storm Center 7 Meteorologist Britley Ritz, said, “We had the wind shear, instability, and the lifting mechanisms to support these storms.
However, those storms did not reinvent the wheels in terms of what caused them.”
What was abnormal about our storms were the time of year and the frequency of occurrence. At this point in the year, the entire state of Ohio typically averages four tornadoes.
Since January, the state of Ohio has seen 35 tornadoes, which is more than we would normally expect in a calendar year.
So, the ingredients aren’t changing, but the numbers don’t lie.
Tornadoes are striking with greater frequency.
According to our colleagues at Climate Central, the number of tornado-favorable days is increasing, meaning the number of days where we have sufficient wind shear and instability for tornadoes is going up.
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Dating back to 2015, only one year featured below-average tornado counts, and only one year featured near-normal tornado counts. Every other year was above average.
In the last five years, the normal is 22.
We have had 24, 33, 33, 56 and we’re already at 35 in 2024, and it’s only April.
Storm Center 7 Weather Specialist Nick Dunn, said, “People will undoubtedly ask, is this a result of climate change? It is tough to say, and it is impossible to tie any one given event to climate change. However, tornadoes like warm, moist air, and Ohio has been seeing more warmth and greater moisture content in its atmosphere over the decades.
Since 1950, the temperature during springtime months has increased at a rate of .4 degrees per decade. Similarly, the dew point has increased at a rate of .2 degrees per decade. Those are subtle increases, but small increases in dewpoint and temperature over time can have big implications in the amount of fuel available for storms.”
Chaney said with the numbers showcasing the increase in tornado activity, and the uncertainty of what climate change and increasing severe weather chances may bring you, you need a team you can trust. And, that is Storm Center 7 – Weather Coverage You Can Count On.
*Related video: An Ohio man captures video of a tornado on March 14, 2024* – Search (bing.com)
CLEVELAND (WJW) — When many people think of tornado outbreaks,
Story by Paul Kiska
Tornado Alley states like Oklahoma. Texas and Missouri come to mind.
But, so far this spring Ohio is outpacing those states, and many other states that historical data show are notorious for many tornadoes.
Palm Sunday Tornado in Ohio 1965 – Search (bing.com)
Is green dust on your car every spring in NE Ohio what you really think it is?
For instance, by mid March, Ohio had 16 confirmed tornadoes in 2024, according to the National Weather Service, while Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas had a combined 6 tornadoes.
Then came April and it brought many more tornadoes to Ohio along with it.
Record breaking in fact. Fox 8 meteorologist Scott Sabol said Ohio had a record-breaking 43 tornadoes in April 2024.
“There has been a trend in recent years where Ohio and Indiana are having more confirmed tornadoes,” meteorologists at the NWS told Fox 8 News.
FOX 8 Meteorologist Dontaé Jones has worked and lived where Ohio tornado outbreaks have occurred, including this past March and April in NE Ohio, “I think there’s more than enough evidence to support that tornado alley is either shifting eastward or at the least widening east,” he said.
The following statement below is from a Scientific American article titled ‘Watch Out: Tornado Alley Is Migrating Eastward‘
“From the 1950s through the 1990s they struck most often in Tornado Alley, an oval area centered on northeastern Texas and south-central Oklahoma. More recently, that focus has shifted eastward,” according to Scientific America.
Dontae was working at a Dayton TV news station during other tornado outbreaks in recent years and shared these comments.
“From the time I arrived in the Miami Valley (Ohio), I learned that it was not only the severe weather section of the state but possibly on the eastern edge of a new tornado alley. Every year that I was there we had severe weather including tornadoes.” Dontae shares more details about incidents that stand out to him that he said, “support the theory of tornado alley shifting eastward.” You can read those later in this story.
A Scientific America graphic also shows part of that shift being highlighted in far western Ohio.
Dontae shared his personal experiences with other major tornado outbreaks that offer credence of a “shifting” tornado alley in regards to Ohio.
“Two incidents in particular stand out to support the theory of tornado alley shifting eastward. Troy, Ohio (Miami County) had a tornado damage some buildings downtown on January 11, 2020. JANUARY! The Memorial Day 2019 outbreak of tornadoes where we had 19 tornadoes in the Miami Valley in one night!
Also, the outbreak that we just saw last Thursday (March 14) had the majority of tornadoes along the I-75 corridor and down toward central Ohio. I think that there is more than enough evidence to support that tornado alley is either shifting eastward or at the least widening east,” Dontae said.
Fox 8 meteorologist Scott Sabol said time will tell if recent tornado outbreaks in Ohio part of a trend will be or was an anomaly. “We will need to monitor the next 3 to 5 years to see if there is an early season trend.”
For more information on tornado season:
you can check out Scott Sabol’s World of Weather.
Viewer photos show the Miami Valley during the Great Blizzard of 1978.
Photo by Danny Guillozet
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>>WATCH: The Great Blizzard of 1978 – Search (bing.com)
This winter may have had some rough points so far, but it’s nothing compared to the blizzard of 1978.
On January 26, the blizzard dropped over a foot of snow; this date still holds the record for the most snow in Dayton in a 24-hour period, according to online archives. The National Guard responded to help deliver supplies and rescue those stuck in the snow.
Interstate 75 was closed for four days, air traffic was halted at the airport, and RTA and the postal service both stopped service.
Dayton officials estimated the blizzard caused over $4 million in damages, according to the archives.
WATCH: The Great Blizzard of 1978 – Search (bing.com)
Summer 1908
Ohio River
Prior to canalization the river was quite unpredictable. Winters provided ice. Hot, dry summers made way for a barren river bottom. Both extremes caused boat traffic to stop — leaving them to sit in place till it rained or thawed. Bing Videos
In this photo captured during the drought of 1908 “the Ohio River at the foot of Grape Island St. Marys, W. V. was so low [(that)] the ferry was immobilized and passengers had to rely on rowboats to make the crossings.”
1908 was one of the driest summers in American history leaving some sections with only two inches of water!
“As bad as the 1908 drought was, however, according to the September 26, 1908, edition of The Akron Beacon Journal, the drought paled in comparison to one that had occurred a couple generations earlier: “This season has certainly been dry, and the drought, especially during the past few weeks, has been a very serious one, but still the memory of the oldest inhabitants runs back to a year when there was a worse one… [The drought in the summer of 1845]: There was no rain from the last of March until the tenth of June, when there fell a little rain for one day, but no more until the second of July, when there probably fell a half inch, for it made the roads a little muddy. From this time no rain fell until early in September.
“The long continued drought reduced the streams of water to mere rills, and many springs and wells, heretofore unfailing, became dry or nearly so. The grass crop entirely failed, and through many counties the pasture lands were so dry that, in walking across them, the dust would rise as in the highways. So dry was the grass that fires, when accidentally kindled, would run over them as over a stubble field and great caution was required to prevent damage from them.
The crop of oats and corn was nearly destroyed. Many fields of wheat so perished that no attempt was made to harvest them. The health of the inhabitants was not materially affected, although much sickness was expected. Grasshoppers were multiplied exceedingly in many places and destroyed every green thing that the drought had spared, even to the thistles and elder tops by the roadside.
“The late frosts and cold drying winds of the spring months cut off nearly all the fruit, and what few apples remained were defective at the core.
“So great was the scarcity of food for the domestic animals that early in the autumn droves of cattle were sent into the valley of the Scioto to pass the winter. Many stocks of dairy cows were broken up and dispersed, selling for only four or five dollars a head, as the cost of wintering would be more than their worth in the spring.
“That was certainly a drought that was a drought, and to read of it makes us think that this year of our Lord 1908 has not been so bad after all.” This Is the Ohio River – Life Death Rebirth of the Beautiful full documentary free – Search Videos (bing.com)
Sources:
* Roger Mackey
* Appalacian Magazine
* Ohio River History
* WV Historical Society
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