Palm Sunday Is This Sunday

The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak occurred on April 11th, 1965 with the violent storms tearing through much of the Southern Great Lakes Region and Northern Ohio Valley. The worst hit states were Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. It is the second biggest tornado outbreak on record; 47 confirmed tornadoes resulted in 271 people killed and 3,400 people injured in just a twelve hour span. Damages from the storms mounted to more than 200 million dollars (1.1 billion/2003 dollars). Only the "Super Outbreak" of April 3rd, 1974 was worse. This write-up is mainly from a Southeast Lower Michigan perspective with some data taken directly from the NWS Storm Data files.

Terrible Tuesday I was near. Never saw anything like it. The storm was over 50,000 ft. Wichita Falls, TX

Back to the Palm Sunday storm (1965).

Hours before the tornado outbreak began, some people in the Midwest complained about the heat, as the temperature rose to an unseasonable 83 degrees in some areas. Storms developed throughout the day as a strong low pressure system moving through Wisconsin drew warm, humid air into southern Michigan. Cooler and drier air at higher altitudes mixed with moist, warm air near the surface, resulting in highly unstable conditions.

Here they come again this Sunday, in my neck of the woods and east. TX, OK, AR watch out. Looks like a bad one. Don't know about anywhere else. My friend always tells me days ahead, that's his expertise and he is usually right.