40th Anniversary of Northern Illinois Worst Tornado Disaster

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This saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the April 21, 1967 tornado outbreak across the Upper Great Lakes and Upper MS River Valley

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/lot/severe/21Apr1967_tornado.pdf

NWS LOT gives a great presentation/commemorative effort to bring that day back and show detailed maps, a detailed account on the tornadoes of that day and a look back at synoptic features of the day.


This event is significant to me in more ways than one. Nevermind that it occured 20 years and 2 1/2 months before I was born. The tornado hit 300 yards to the north of where I am currently typing this up. My grandparents and dad were just about to go to a pizza place (92nd and Cicero) squarely in the path of the Oak Lawn F4 and if they were caught in traffic during that.....who knows I may not be here today telling you about it. I find it facinating that such a briefly violent tornado has hit the town where every day I hear, "storms coming? bahh it'll just blow over." Tsk Tsk Tsk how soon we forget........
 
Both my parents were almost killed during the Oak Lawn tornado; my dad was caught in traffic and my mom was caught outside at a public pool trying to get home.
 
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