In January 1975 an unusually intense winter storm struck the central and south-eastern US. Coinciding with a big annual football game, it was referred to as the Super Bowl blizzard, as well as Minnesota’s storm of the century and the tornado outbreak.
The storm originated in the Pacific. It crossed the Rocky Mountains and strengthened as it drew in cold Arctic air and warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico, a pattern known as a Panhandle Hook.
