The Xenia tornado was so strong and the damage so severe, that Dr. Fujita considered rating it an F6, although the scale only went to F5.

[citation needed] He decided not to since some of the damage that would indicate that it could be the mythical F6, might have been due to the structure not being as strong as it should in the first place.

Much of the town was destroyed including the courthouse, some churches and cemeteries, 40 businesses and numerous homes as well as three schools.

A large, F4 tornado struck Louisville, killing 3 people and demolished most of Audubon Elementary School and affected the neighborhoods of Audubon, Cherokee Triangle, Cherokee-Seneca, Crescent Hill, Indian Hills, Northfield, Rolling Fields, and Tyler Park.

The Guin Tornado traveled over 100 miles (160 km) to just west of Huntsville before lifting just after 10:30 pm CDT.

It formed at around 8:50 pm CDT near the Mississippi-Alabama border, striking the Monterey Trailer Park, resulting in major damage at that location.

The tornado then became extremely violent as it approached and entered Guin, with multiple areas of F5 damage noted in and around town.

The tornado first struck the Guin Mobile Home Plant as it entered the town, completely obliterating the structure.

[11] Residential areas in Guin suffered total devastation, with many homes swept completely away and scattered across fields.

A F2 tornado destroyed small home while damaging 45 others and leaving 1 injury in Athens, Tennessee.

A F2 tornado destroyed small home along with other farm buildings near Sadlers Creek State Park, South Carolina with one injury.

A two days outbreak begins with an early morning F2 tornado that struck Alexandria, Louisiana where four barns and eleven mobile homes were destroyed with three injuries.

159 miles per hour was calculated as a tornado destroyed 30 farms and then went on to rip apart 300 homes in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Another deadly and destructive F4 tornado struck the town of Emporia in Kansas, killing six more people.

Additionally, the outbreak produced non-tornadic winds in the city which reached 100 knots (51 m/s) (115 miles per hour (185 km/h)) for several minutes.