Lil late here but my contribution to the discussion...
Omaha Tornado of 1975
I wasn't quite 1 year old but I've heard about it my whole life. F4 tornado went right thru town, aparently it was the worse tornado incident in the US up to that point. I rode it out in the basement of my parents house, which the twister passed by about a mile of. More stories/pictures of it
here.
Living in Nebraska my whole life you really do get a numb feeling towards tornados because they are a way of life in this part of the country (
tornado alley). I thought I heard once 70-80% of the world's tornados occur here.
