Seymour Texas Tornado - April 10, 1979

[38clonetrooper]

damn! 1979! that was 32 years ago!

[Fatality654]

thanks for no music or some retard voice.

[LIZArtist]

This is nature sayin' "Fuck you guys."

[viper100200]

@LIZArtist and then we punch nature in the nose by burning fossil fuels proving once and for all that we run this place.

[MissMaddy881]

@LIZArtist no, nature's saying that to texas.

[legomacewindu]

not exactly tranceneuro

[TranceNeuro]

when you see tornados that look like its pitch black its because either the soil from that area is really dark or the camera at that time didn't have a high contrast colour

[tristconroytv]

wow

[birdluver184858]

0:22 creepy...

[LinShiana]

0:38 - scary...

[ggbay1]

was it a touchdown

[barryblueye30]

THAT IS COOL

[PupuTheClown]

Is this the same twister that hit Wichita Falls and destroyed it ?

[Rikki0]

@PupuTheClown Yes. It touched down near Seymour and came into Wichita Falls from the Southwest. It went up Southwest Parkway, a very busy street in Wichita Falls. It destroyed the house my wife and I had moved out of 5 months before. My mom and dad were on SW Parkway when it came in and it almost caught them but Dad cut across a side road and got out of the path. 41 people were killed and damages were over 400 million. It was an F5 not an F4 as someone stated.

[PupuTheClown]

,,that is some story, I was near Tulsa in the 5th grade and I'm not certain if I remember it but we sure had our share of tornado scares, I remember one day the sky was red-pink and lightening was cloud to cloud constantly, it looked like Armageddon.

[XxseanlfcfanxX]

tornadoes that appear black with the sun behind them always seem the most intimidating of them all...at least in my opinion

[MissMaddy881]

@XxseanlfcfanxX yeah.

[razorcon92]

@XxseanlfcfanxX

HELL TO THE YEAH

SATANS FINGER NAIL!!!!!!LMAO

[elr456]

@XxseanlfcfanxX Yup, they look really dark. Like death.

[lipsticksaffair]

i like it,its like so real

[Tornadoesfly]

F2?!?!

[xxcurnuxx]

@Tornadoesfly only hit tree and telephone poles even with it's F4 winds

[thatsMrButtbreath2u]

At 0:22 it appears to be devouring a large turd farm.

[deadleg6]

man that is officially the blackest tornado i've ever seen

[MrMrMoto]

dry anal rape thats abig mofo

[Nicholad99]

lloking at these pictures I realized there is some really phallic symbology involved with tornadoes. Strange.

[Gafgarion222]

have F6

[MarkMc1990]

0:37 is a terrifying image...imagine being devoured by that thing.

[mcpsp12]

@MarkMc1990 Yes, my heart dropped when I saw it

[Kalkivite1]

l have fear of the tornadoes

[seasnake40]

holy crap

[GandaraVideos]

5 star rating. tornados are scary..

[TheMainTornadoChaser]

Was it an F5?

[Kisstory07]

dude read the decription

[DebaSupport]

that is the name for tornados

the size they started of F1 to F5

F1 is the smallest classification

F5 so far the largest ;)

[bombdrop91]

no it was rated an f2.

[PAramore13579]

u no wuts weird is i live in Seymour,Texas!

[Stronghurst]

I was born there!

[ok2bu]

Looks like the finger of God.

[StlyeFree]

The pictures from :31-:40 look creepy, almost scary.

[Jamiesyme999]

such a wild tornado ........amazing display of structure...the height of the laminer tube is wild and the angles on the sides display the perfect shear at work ... a terribly powerful tornado

[PupuTheClown]

God how i loved 1979 !

[jjankord]

I am 34 years old now and was 5 years old when this cell of tornados hit the area. I can still remember it to this day like it was yesterday. My father had a police and weather scanner and because of the weather clouds coming in we were out in the yard listening to the spotters and police when we saw the tornado come. We ran and took cover and when we came out the destruction was amazing. It looked like a bomb hit the area. Houses were totally destroyed. Many people died. It was horrible.

[sburre1]

Brings back great, great memories. I was on the NSSL team that filmed that (I was taking slides) and this was the first of many tornadoes I've seen since. This was shortly before the days of video and was short on a Bolex 16mm movie camera. The reason it was only rated F-2 is that it didn't hit any structures...just tore up some cactus and mesquite treed.

[pinkfuzzzz286]

that thing is beast!

[mda037]

This is the first in a series of tornadoes from the same supercell that hit Wichita Falls about an hour after these images were taken.

I wonder, in those days, how much advanced warning the people in WF had before this storm moved in.

Almost 30 years later here in Oklahoma if a storm shows any signs of tornadic circulation, there is non-stop TV coverage of the storm until it passes out of the viewing area.

In 2008, advanced warning is as good as it gets - at least here in OK.

[kywxgal]

AWESOME COVERAGE!!!

[silvermoon1616]

that wuz at least an f-4 could have killed your ass Wivanunu

[KidKarnage187]

That thing looks down-right wicked!

[Wivanunu]

No way that was only an F2. They should have looked at video of it!!!

[qwerty120291]

wow insane after the 2 tornados people in texas got last night

i feel lucky that they were less than a quarter of what that sucker is

[nuclearembrace2008]

Oklahomans aren't scared because we see them all the time. Many people get killed every year.

[truedanzer09]

do u cry lol?

[bmase2007]

well aren't y'all a regular bunch of hardasses

[nuclearembrace2008]

yes, thank you! =]

[orangepencilonlaptop]

TORNADOES ARE JUST SCARY

[MCR4LIFE876]

i like to watch old footage of storms

[xprisonicfairytalex]

Me too.

=]

[swmdal]

One of the most evil looking tornadoes of all time, I would say. You can see why its successor did so much damage in Wichita Falls about an hour later.

[samanthagirl89]

wow! this was way before I was born, but my mom lived in wichita falls and the tornado went there

[leafylou96]

Aaaahhh!!

[DczeroAJ]

Simply amazing footage nicely done.

[DennyAlbert]

Very scary but also exciting too!!!

[Typeuserhere]

Its like a silhouette with the lit, hazy sky in the back ground.

[detour414]

hey antiC iv always loved your tornado clips and vids espetionaly your cat ones:)

[ColonelAngus75]

I've always liked how this tornado is lit by the sun in this film.

[Typeuserhere]

Ya, in my room I've got like the same picture everywhere. Its a very beautiful tornado I would say.

[brownwoodguy79]

how big was that tornado?

[WillieDines1]

Hi AC :), I can't remember if I have seen this video before, but there's some nice footage again, and also, some of the pictures are quite familiar :)

Top rating again for another video that's been nicely put together :) Willie