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“Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds” _____ predicted.

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Tornadoes _____ not well understood in 1974.

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Fujita’s system _______ more useful and far more accurate.

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The most shocking thing he discovered _____ that some tornadoes actually have more than one “suction vortex.”

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Vicki Gamble _____ just four years old when the tornado hit her Arrowhead neighborhood in Xenia.

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Decades later, she remembers every second of that day—riding her tricycle in her driveway, how kids ______ laughing in the street.

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“It _____ a picture perfect day,” she recalls, until neighbors began running down the street screaming, “Tornado! Tornado!”

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There _____ a moment of eerie quiet.

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When the family finally crawled out of their hiding place, their house _____ still standing.

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