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Second biggest outbreak on record?

Second biggest by what definition? There have been many recent outbreaks with more than 48 tornadoes... CrazyC83 02:44, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Page move

I think this should be moved to Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak (1965) to distinguish it from the other outbreak in 1994 (Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak (1994)), but I'm not sure about notability - if this one is much more important (which it seems to be) the move might be unnecessary. Comments? -- stillnotelf is invisible 22:39, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

1965 is far more notable and important, the current links should remain. CrazyC83 05:22, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Agreed, 1965 is the most notable by far, and has been referred to in all litterature as "The Palm Sunday Outbreak". Should be moved back. -Runningonbrains 21:29, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Strongsville Tornado

How come the tornado rating would be disputed if "homes literally vanished" synonym of wiped off their fondations. I know that structures were probably not as solid, but still any house that are vanished like that must have been an F-5.--JForget 01:19, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Not necessarily. If a structure is weak enough it can be swept away by sub-F5 winds. According to the EF scale, a high F2 can sweep away mobile homes, and an F4 can sweep away some houses. -Runningonbrains 18:54, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Speaking of which, if official records have the two disputed tornadoes down as F4, shouldn't the article also classify them as F4 but note that there is a disupted rating? Incubusman27 17:12, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I think we should because virtually all NWS sources and the Tornado History Project do not classify them anymore as F5. So I will change them right away.--JForget 15:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

April 11, 1965, was the second widespread Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak

The very first Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak, occurred on March 28, 1920. This outbreak affected states from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, southward to Alabama. The death toll from this first outbreak was well-over 200, with 1,000+ injured. Ironically, several of the same counties and a few communities that were struck in 1920, were again hit in 1965, in the Great Lakes region.

Another devastating tornado that struck on Palm Sunday, was in Tupelo, Mississippi. In the evening hours of April 5, 1936, a family of devastating tornadoes moved across the the Magnolia State, culminating in a direct hit on the city of Tupelo. The death toll was 233 and many more were injured.

The same storm system continued to spawn severe weather, and another killer tornado struck Gainesville, Georgia the next morning. Ironically, there was no warning system in place to alert the public at that time, which ultimately lead to such a high casualty rate. Later on, U.S. Weather Bureau officials would come to call this event as the "The Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak." USRoute66 01:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

List of tornadoes

I've added a list of tornadoes confirmed from the outbreak since it was not too long (shorter then our recent outbreak in Kansas.--JForget 00:32, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Considering, the trend with recent articles on tornado outbreaks, it would be save to add the tornadoes on the 10th including an F4 that killed 6 in Arkansas into the list of tornadoes from the same system?.--JForget 17:14, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Name

I moved articlel name "Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965" to "1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak" IAW Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events). --Rosiestep (talk) 23:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

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F5 rating for the Dunlap and Midway tornadoes

Can anyone verify that these tornadoes have been upgraded to F5? As far as I know these were actually high-end F4 tornadoes with the rating disputed. These tornadoes may have been F5 rather than F4 and have been mentioned as possible F5 tornadoes. But I would like for someone to provide a source verifying that they have officially been upgraded to F5 because the only official F5 tornado in 1965 (to my knowledge) occurred in Colome, South Dakota on May 8. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevjgav (talk • contribs)

@Kevjgav: you are correct. None of these tornadoes have been officially rated F5. Someone has been falsely changing F4 events to F5 across various articles and I've been having a hard time keeping up with them. Thanks for bringing this up. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 23:26, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
@Cyclonebiskit: I didn't think so. I believe that six of the tornadoes in this outbreak are disputed to have been F5, four of them in Indiana (in the towns of Dunlap, Midway, Rainbow Lake and Lebanon) and two others in Ohio (in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville and the northern suburbs of Toledo) but I'll continue looking for F4 tornadoes that have been changed to F5 and make posts much like this one in those articles. Thank you for fixing that by the way.--Kevjgav (talk) 10:30, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

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