NOAA Technical Report on the Super Tornado OutBreak

[New England Storm]

I have come a across the October 1975 technical report on the outbreak and found some verry interesting facts about that day. One of things that I cant understand is the total tornado count. They list the outbreak time as between 1200 cst Wednesday April 3 to 1200 cst Thursday April 4 1974. When reading the report however they mention tornado touchdowns prior to 1200 cst "The touchdowns of two or three tornado reported after midnight with hail and wind damage during the first round of activity. I know that the storms with the first line was nothing compared to what would come next however, it happened on the same day from the same storm system. Is there a reason why the activity was not counted in the total? Or is it that the first round was removed do to lack of eveidence???? I mean they included a tornado the hit NewYork state just outside of Jamestown??

Anyways I found some great links that I wanted to share about that outbreak for all of us that love to read about this kind of stuff.

http://www.lkyradio.com/WHASairchecks.htm#tornado THIS LINK HAS WHAS AM RADIO COVERAGE FROM APRIL 3 1974, 12 parts each part lasts about 30 mins

http://www.april31974.com/- THis link show some rare photos and weather info for this day.

[Hoosier]

Here's a slideshow about the outbreak:

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/corfidi/74outbreak_slides/index.html

[New England Storm]

Hey thanks for that the charts are a lot cleaner looking on that slide show

[Hoosier]

I found a longer slideshow about the outbreak:

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/corfidi/74apr3_slides/index.html

Collection of links from various NWS offices:

Louisville, KY

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=tornado_climatology_april31974

Northern Indiana

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/iwx/?n=superoutbreak_meteorology

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/iwx/?n=superoutbreak

Indianapolis, IN

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/?n=april3_1974tor

Wilmington, OH

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/iln/events/19740403/