Title	Xenia tornado damage
Subject	Tornadoes--Ohio--Xenia Tornado damage Natural disasters Xenia (Ohio)--History National Guard
Time Period	1970s
Place	Xenia (Ohio) Greene County (Ohio)
Description	This photograph shows the National Guard clearing debris after the 1974 tornado. On April 3, 1974, an F5 category tornado struck Xenia, Ohio. The tornado that struck Xenia was just one of at least 148 tornados that occurred in the South and Midwest in a twenty-four hour period. This was the worst outbreak of tornados recorded in the twentieth century. The tornado that struck Xenia had maximum winds of three hundred miles per hour. It destroyed more than one thousand homes and businesses. Hardly any buildings remained standing in Xenia's downtown. Thirty-three people died in the storm, with approximately another 1,150 people injured. President Richard Nixon visited Xenia a week following the tornado. He stated, "It's the worst disaster I've ever seen." Xenia rebuilt quickly. By April 3, 1975, eighty percent of the destroyed homes and forty percent of the businesses had been rebuilt. It would take until 1984 for all structures to be repaired or rebuilt, but as bumper stickers that appeared within days of the tornado stated, "Xenia Lives!"
Creator	Ohio National Guard
Date of Original	April 1974
Collection	Ohio National Guard
Source	State Archives Series 725 AV; Box 1/ #117
Format	Picture 35 mm Slide
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	AL07696.tif
Image Height	1082
Image Width	1560
File Size	10154864 Bytes
Date created	2011-08-10

Xenia tornado damage

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