April 11

I can’t recall, have I mentioned that tornadoes are very popular this month? Did I qualify their popularity with the adjective ‘extraordinarily’? If not, I must at this point add extraordinarily when ever I mention tornadoes in April. So, right now, just take a number 2 pencil and insert extraordinarily in the appropriate place in the introduction and in the entry for the 9th. Go ahead. Do it right now. Don’t worry, I will wait here until you have finished. I ask you to do this because on the 11th in 1965 78 tornadoes hit the Midwest from Clinton County, Iowa to Cuyahoga, Ohio and from Kent County, Michigan to Montgomery County, Indiana. Some wonk classified them as 38 significant, 19 violent and 21 killers. I think there were so many that were killers because they felt snubbed by not being considered both significant and violent. As has been said, it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature. The charming nickname for the meteorological event is the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak of 1965.