At Xenia, Ohio, once destroyed by a tornado in 1974 by an F-5 tornado that was dubbed as the worst in the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The local news station won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting that saved many lives in the city, where only 34 people were killed. The 1974 Super Outbreak also became the shining moment for Dr. Ted Fujita, father of the Fujita Scale that rates tornadoes, and modern meteorology.