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April 9

• 1919 – A tornado outbreak, which had started just before midnight on February 8, killed 95 people in the central and southern United States. A long-track F4 tornado, at times a mile wide, killed 24 people as it moved across Wood, Camp, and Titus counties. Another F4 tornado killed 20 people in Henderson and Van Zandt counties.
• 1947 – One of the deadliest tornadic events in U.S. history, a family of tornadoes up to F5 intensity and, at times 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, moved across parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, killing 181 people and injuring more than 1,200. In Texas, all of Glazier and most of Higgins were destroyed, resulting in 17 and 51 deaths respectively. Another 107 people were killed and about 1,000 were injured in the devastation of Woodward, Oklahoma.
• 1953 – A hook echo was found to correspond with the location of an F3 tornado near Champaign, Illinois. This marks the first time a tornado was found to be associated with a signature detected by weather radar.