The tornado that killed the most people ever in the state of Ohio: the Lorain Sandusky Tornado

Hello, Welcome to another episode of North Coast History and Haunts. In today's episode we take a look at the killer tornado in Lorain and Sandusky on June 28th, 1924. We visit where the tornado started and where it ended and tell the story along the way.
On June 28, 1924, a devastating tornado crushed the Northern Ohio lakeshores hitting Sandusky and Lorain very hard in particular. The storm began as a low pressure system moving rapidly East and colliding with the warm air, this devastating storm slammed into Sandusky Bay killing 8 people and crushing over 100 houses and 50 businesses. The waterworks were wiped out and a ferry in the harbor was ripped from its moorings, tipped over and 15 people drowned.
The storm moved offshore until it swept violently South and East slamming into Lakeview Park in Lorain, Ohio where a crowd of people had gathered to celebrate a fine Saturday by cooling off in the Lake and picnics with their families. The tornado came onshore with no advanced warning directly onto the beach where people desperately grabbed anything they could to avoid being swept away. Cars were tossed into the Lake and bobbed silently and slowly down to a water grave.
The storm slammed into the residential neighborhoods and entire streets were leveled. The storm crushed the downtown area and stopping at the Black River where the devastation began to end. The entire downtown area was crushed. The State Theater was hit hard when the roof of the neighboring building was lifted off and deposited onto the State, the roof collapsed onto the balcony below which then collapsed onto the main floor crushing anyone unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Martial law was declared and ignored. Looting was rampant and all lines of communication were knocked out with no way to alert the outside world. People formed refugee camps in a desperate search for safety compounded by the fact that fire began to spread with ruptured gas lines now igniting.
Eventually brave souls crossed the river and alerted the world.
Aid poured in and entire rail cars were sent loaded with aid, food, supplies, even doctors and nurses were onboard to help.
Lorain, Ohio would eventually heal but not forget. The devastation still lives on and has become part of the city. Lorain is enjoying a renaissance of sorts with a revitalized downtown area. The Lorain Historical is a fantastic place to learn more and they have something very special planned for the anniversary of the storm.
Thanks to the Sandusky and Lorain Historical Societies! You guys rock!
Lorain:lchs.org
Sandusky Historical: www.google.com...
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[@michaelbonanno3182]

What a great historical account of this tragedy! Very well done! Looking forward to Part II!

[@LarchmontDan]

Mike, thanks buddy. Im very excited about the Podcast! Maybe we have the start of the next episode!

[@RETIREDAMATUER]

The background audio is way too loud and obnoxious

[@krezzykrezz]

The tornado did not stop at the river. My family was on the east side and their house was destroyed. My dad was only 4 years old and he had vivid memories of it.

[@kevinthompson238]

Born and raised in lorain ohio Born in the 60 lorain is home 😊

[@LarchmontDan]

Lorain is cool.

[@michaelhiles5350]

Thanks I've been through Lorain hundreds of times grew up in Cleveland lived in Elyria for 2 years

[@SpartansAndHeroes]

Great video

[@gideonstupke2257]

That must have been terrifying! I know that somthing similar happened in Syracuse N.Y. in 1912. A tornado spun up on Onieda Lake and hit a small theme park that used to be there. It went on to destroy houses and had eye wittnesses recall the accounts. Though, it wasn't known how bad of one it was. But it was bad enough to pick up and throw trolley cars

[@LarchmontDan]

I agree 100%. There are a lot of pictures of this tornado online and it's incredible the damage this caused. I took some drone footage of the path of the tornado and Im going to also do an overlay of the old pic on top of the "new" ones. I think there is a very cool book out about the tornado too!

[@gideonstupke2257]

@@LarchmontDan That's awesome!!! This kind of history always catches my attention

[@LarchmontDan]

Agreed 100%. It's weird how many stories there are like this too! I have a small notebook where I jot down ideas, stories, etc. and Im currently sitting at 427 of these. Most I had never heard about until I started digging around. If you are into podcasts, Ohio Mysteries is outstanding! www.ohiomysteries.com

[@gideonstupke2257]

@@LarchmontDan That's awesome! I'll take a look at it! I've been wanting to do somthing similar with my other youtube channel, but with N.C. Pleanty of mysteries here, especially in the mountains

[@ericawalton8045]

I have lived in Sandusky most of my life and didn’t even know about this 😳 I also was married at lake view park

[@LarchmontDan]

That is so cool! I used to work at CP and would take the ferry to downtown Sandusky and check out the city or check the library out and learned a lot about the city. It has a crazy history. Ive been working on a separate video for the tornado in Sandusky. Then Im working on a haunted tour video of downtown. Thanks for watching!

[@LarchmontDan]

So Im currently working on Part 2 of this topic. Im shooting drone footage following the tornado's path and then overlaying an old picture to the current locations. Any other suggestions for an interesting/compelling video?

[@widalysnegron7280]

Nice!!! Excellent job! next year 2024 will be the 100 anniversary got a nice 1924 tornado memorabilia "newspapers, press photos, adds, red cross reports, postcards ect that will be displaying by Jun 2024 keep on touch...

[@LarchmontDan]

yeah! Im working on Part 2 and it's coming together nicely. I shot the drone footage and now taking "before and after" shots. Also including some historical records from the Lorain Historical Society.