Louisville Kentucky Tornado


April 3rd, 1974No audioOne of the more notorious twisters during the infamous Super Outbreak. From Wikipedia:"F4 tornado formed in the southwest part of Jefferson County near Kosmosdale. Another funnel cloud formed over Standiford Field Airport, touched down at The Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, and destroyed the majority of the horse barns at the center and part of Freedom Hall (a multipurpose arena). The tornado continued its 22-mile (35 km) journey northeast where it demolished most of Audubon Elementary School and affected the neighborhoods of Audubon, Cherokee Triangle, Cherokee-Seneca, Crescent Hill, Indian Hills, Northfield, Rolling Hills, and Tyler Park. The tornado ended near the junction of Interstates 264 and 71 after killing two people, injuring 207 people, destroying over 900 homes, and damaging thousands of others. Cherokee Park, an historic 409-acre municipal park located at Eastern Parkway and Cherokee Road, had thousands of mature trees destroyed. A massive re-planting effort was undertaken by the community in the aftermath of the tornado."Credit: WHAS-TV







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alreltney (April 8, 2009 at 9:21 pm)
Too bad this thing didn't take out the whole town. Louisville,Kentucky has got to be the biggest shit hole in North America. A real ass backwards town with plenty of corruption, useless bastards,pathetic government and just plain stupid citizens. Ah well there;s always tomorrow maybe it will happen yet.
ReformedPastorJude (April 3, 2009 at 3:34 pm)
I was 4 yrs old. We were at the old Stuarts in oxmoor mall eating lunch, when the lights went out and some restaurant personnel announced that there was a tornado. i remember crying in fear. our neighhborhood was spared, but we saw a ton of damage on the way home that day
chipsdips (March 8, 2009 at 11:35 pm)
i was 11 yo,i will never forget ,we lived on a small section of payne st.off of franck.we had been out of school (barrett mid.)not long when we seen the funnel just about over cherokee park.when it came by it sounded like a train.i remember listing to the radio right after we came from the basement about how it was a major outbreak.man,it was awful.
2216gangsta (March 8, 2009 at 5:19 pm)
I was in this tornado!,I actually rode this tornado through a time portal and was sent back to the day Abe Lincoln was killed.Strange thing about the day he was killed was that he was supposed to catfish noodling with a blacksmith named Albert Coogan but Albert said his wife was bitching at him for spending all his time fishing so he told Abe to go see a play or something while he went home and roughed up his big mouth wife for always nagging him about his fishing.True story,I was there

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