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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
700 AM CDT Thu Apr 11 2024

...ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY...

In 1965, the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak raked parts of
five states from the Upper Midwest to the Lower Great
Lakes Region.  The outbreak was comprised of 47
tornadoes, 19 of which were violent.  The outbreak tore
through Iowa Illinois Indiana, Southern Michigan and
Ohio.  Indiana was likely hit the hardest, where 137
people were killed and 1,200 were injured.  Of the 10
tornadoes that struck Indiana, 8 were violent.Perhaps
the most appalling tornadoes were a pair of F4s that tore
through Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan.  These
two behemoths each averaged between ONE AND ONE AND A
HALF MILES WIDE along tracks that totaled 165 MILES.  The
damage track in one extreme Southern Michigan County that
was hit by both tornadoes was nearly four miles wide.
The two tornadoes killed 44 and injured 612.  A third F4
tornado that roared between Elkhart and Goshen Indiana
evolved into a dramatic double funnel as it crossed a
highway.  The "dynamic duo" killed 14 and injured 200.
The wing of an airplane parked at the Goshen Airport was
found 35 miles away in Centerville Michigan.  Of the two
F5 tornadoes, one struck the Cleveland suburb of
Strongsville Ohio, where 18 were killed and 200 were
injured.  On the north side of Strongsville, several
homes vanished.  Prior to hitting Strongsville, the
vicious vortex plowed through Pittsfield which was almost
completely destroyed.  Six of the houses in Pittsfield
vanished.  In all, the outbreak killed 256 and injured
around 1,500.  In 2022 dollars, the outbreak would have
caused 7.6 billion dollars damage.

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