"The funnel was first reported by Patrolman Steve Zschernitz, who said he saw it when it was almost directly overhead.An employe at Dearth Motors said that just before the tornado struck a barometer in the auto showroom took a sharp dip of 30 points, from 30.20 to 29.90, and then rose swiftly again.A housing project for the elderly, Churchill Woods, was in the path of the storm and sustained window and water damage, but no one was injured.A number of persons in the two fast food restraurants who apparently suffered minor injuries did not seek medical treatment.Kenneth Olson of South Wayne said he was eating at Dairy Queen when the tornado hit, blowing a large section of a plate glass window over his shoulder and head. When the Palm Sunday tornado hit Monroe in 1965, about 36 persons were injured, 13 of them seriously. "The windows of dozens of cars and trucks parked in the area were smashed. The film primarily focuses on the devastation across Northern and Central Indiana. This article is about the 1965 tornado outbreak. Dearth Motors also reported that several new cars were damaged.Police Chief Richard Busch called a state of emergency about 7 p.m. and sent officers out to evacuate the entire area. Not all those injured sought medical treatment.Mrs. Weather Bureau investigated the large number of deaths. "The injuries were from flying glass. He said there were several downed power lines and trees, and the Sheriff's Department said the area was without power.Green County Sheriff Arlin Hanson said, "We had no warning at all. There was nothing from the weather service. A six-state area of Ohio, Micigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa was severely damaged by the tornados. It is called the Monroe Tornado Urban Renewal Area.Saturday night's tornado blew in plate glass windows on several customers eating at McDonald's Restaurant and Dairy Queen, but only four were treated at St. Clare Hospital.Police said the injured included a man, a boy and two women.Nine semitrailer trucks parked outside the Stanley E. Whitehead Trucking Co. were picked up by the gale and thrown into a tangled heap, with some sticking up in the air and others rolled over on their tops. Account of Jackie Brewer. For other uses, see Picture of the "double tornado" that hit the Midway Trailer Park in Indiana, killing 14. It was the same area that was damaged by a tornado on Palm Sunday 14 years ago that did about $20 million in damages. Squad cars cruised the streets issuing the order to evacuate through loudspeakers. "Death Out Of Darkness" is a public safety documentary about the deadly tornadoes of the 11-April-1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, which affected portions of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, WI 10 June, 1979

Another F4 tornado touched down at 815 PM EST and roared across Clinton County into Shiawassee. Although As technology has advanced since 1965; warnings can be spread via cable and satellite television, PCs and the Internet, solid-state electronics, cell phones, and In the Midwest, between 235 to 271 people were killed and 1,500 injured (1,200 in "Palm Sunday 1965: Southern Great Lakes Ravaged by One of the Worst Tornado Outbreaks on Record." The first touched down at around 5:30 p.m. in Ninety miles (145 km) to the south, at just past 7:30 p.m., another massive tornado slammed into the town of With the telephone lines down, emergency services in Tornadoes continued from Indiana into Ohio where additional fatalities occurred across the state border. he said he could place no dollar estimate on the damage.Fire Chief Paul Mueller said firemen found and stopped a few gas leaks, but there were no fires. In the Midwest, 271 people were killed and 1,500 injured (1,200 in Indiana). The tornadoes occurred in a swath 450 miles long (724 km) from The outbreak was one of the deadliest, and most violent ever documented, with 17 confirmed violent tornadoes (F4-F5 intensity) all of which were rated F4 (a few were previously rated F5), the second-largest number of violent twisters in one outbreak, after the Super Outbreak of 1974.The tornado count increased as the day progressed.