Published on: April 3, 2011 at 9:05 AM
It started 37 years ago tonight… and lasted into the early morning hours of April 4, 1974. Our own J.B. Elliott was on duty at the National Weather Service; I traveled to Guin with J.B. in 2004 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the nation’s largest tornado outbreak:
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