Tuesday's tornado outbreak happened one day before the 50th anniversary of the super tornado outbreak of 1974.

148 tornadoes were recorded across 13 states, claiming hundreds of lives.

Our Christy Daughton explores how advancements in technology and tornado safety have changed in the last 50 years.

Now, a lot of people will remember the 1974 super tornado outbreak.

This happened on April 3rd.

And so this year marks the 50th anniversary, that tornado outbreak that was deadly and by some reports, killed over 60 people in Kentucky alone, 315 deaths total in 13 states and Kentucky.

Brandenburg in Meade County was hit the hardest with the with Kentucky's only recorded EF five tornado.

You just saw the map there of all the lines of all those tornadoes.

And here's some of that footage.

There's the footage that tornado, I believe that's in the Louisville area where it really swept through.

I mean, it was on the ground maybe 20 miles through Louisville, did a lot of damage there in the Cherokee Park area.

So was that EF four when it hit the Louisville area?

That was an EF four tornado.

I mean, things are very different now.

And you can see by these pictures and some of the images, you know, technology has come quite a long way, hasn't it, John?

I mean, what's the difference now if an outbreak like that happened today versus what happened then?

This is the signature event of all.

This is the number one event.

Everything changed back in the day.

Diane Sawyer did the weather in Louisville.

We had people who are not meteorologists, right?

And this event, Gilbert, you just showed the Louisville one was a helicopter pilot that day and that kind of really led to the Chaser movement, Dick Gilbert up there doing the traffic.

So back in the day, you had fax charts, you had 1950s style radars, you had no Internet, you had no I know that's shocking to the young people.

Yet none of this.

There was no Twitter, Facebook, there was nothing.

Yeah, we had one computer model and that this event led to the evolution of the Doppler weather radars that led to the end of the graphics movement.

It led to the Movement of the Sky Warren program of getting spotters to report damage and hail and wind and everything else.

It also led to the AMA, the Kentucky maisonette Shane works for.

That led to better observations.

Back in the day, we had Louisville and Lexington and Frankfurt Airport, London.

We didn't have any of the 15 sites in the state.

Now you have 70 something stations in the state.

We have everything got better because of a horrible disaster.

Dustin I know like emergency management, What lessons were learned then and I've even seen some counties putting up tornado shelters, too, right?

So these are different now from even from an emergency management side of it.

Putting together and having them work on what we call mitigation projects, things that are we can do to either prevent the situation from happening or at least prevent the loss of life.

And we work really hard, our team with our locals, to put those mitigation projects in place.

And one of those one of those being, you know, having storms, storm shelters, whether it's community storm shelters or inside public buildings, that they have a location that they can be go to within those public buildings, as well as the communication.

We talked about the outdoor warning sirens.

How do we do a better job of communicating with people with that?

Those are all things that every time I mean, not just the 74 event, but obviously a big driver every time.

How do we make this so we know we can't stop tornadoes from happening?

But in this case, what do we do to prevent the loss of life?

A lot of great information in that program.

And you can see that show in its entirety online on demand at Katie Dawg.

It's called Severe Weather Staying Safe.