The following videos first aired during the 40th anniversary of the April 3, 1974 Super Tornado Outbreak on WDRB News...

Southern Indiana was blasted by a mile wide F5. This storm destroyed both my parent's and grandparent's homes. Their story...

Arguably, the hardest hit community of the entire outbreak was Brandenburg when a 500 yard wide F5 cut a path straight through town tragically claiming 31 lives...

Louisville was ground zero to one of 23 F4's that occurred that day when the storm dropped straight out of the sky onto Freedom Hall before raging through the Highlands and into the East End of town...

The massive storm system produced 148 tornadoes in a 24 hour period with 30 considered violent and a jaw dropping SEVEN F5's changing the science of meteorology and the warning process forever.

Let's hope we never have to experience an event like that again anytime soon.

WDRB Meteorologist Jeremy Kappell





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