June 8, 1974. The date of one of those "generational" tornado outbreak events.

I was fourteen at the time and that date is seared into my memory. Sunday will mark the fortieth anniversary of the day Oklahoma City was struck by tornadoes five times in a single day, the first striking the National Weather Service office at Will Rogers Airport taking the office out of service. The most powerful tornado in Oklahoma that day, classified as an F4, devastated the northeastern Oklahoma town of Drumright.

In those days, severe weather forecasting and warning was primitive compared to today. I stood in my driveway in Midwest City looking to the northeast, when I clearly saw what is now called a wall cloud with a funnel that was the "Spencer" tornado.

Here are some links to stories about that fateful Oklahoma June day that I will never forget.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tsa/?n=event_1974jun08

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1974_Great_Plains_tornado_outbreak

http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?16834-June-8-1974

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/06/08/the-day-tv-weather-grew-up/

It looks like Tulsa got slammed pretty hard that day as well.

The one June outbreak I remember was June 13, 1998. That was the day that several weak tornadoes touched down in NW OKC and one hit Frontier City and another hit the KOCO transmitter tower knocking it off the air for over a month if I recall correctly.