Tri-State Tornado - March 18, 1925 - Weather Channel Segment

[pal4evr333]

Very sad my grandma survived this

[cobra46349]

@pal4evr333 that's sad? well this was the worst in U.S. history, so she's very lucky.

[mdb7771]

This was the deadliest in U.S History not world history

[lordgroudon9]

My great great grandmother was 27 when this happened.

[starrock779]

WRONG! it was 17 million dollars in damage

[2009Olga2009]

Helllo! Does anyone know where I can download this video or any other about Tri-state Tornado in 1925 for free? I'd greatly appreciate the advice!

[tornadoman14]

@2009Olga2009 Just go to keepvid.com and input the URL for this video.

[2009Olga2009]

@tornadoman14 Thank you very much! 

[kardas4210]

It's not the deadliest tornado in history.

There was this one somewhere I forget where that killed 1300 people!

[Yarndt]

@kardas4210 It was the Daultipur-Salturia Tornado in Bangladesh in 1989.

[kardas4210]

@Yarndt Thank you.

[ethanchogan]

what movie did this clip come from i had this movie when i was 5 or 6 it was in a green case that had lightning on it had several segments from different tornadoes on it... the music and stories bring back memories :)

[tornadoman14]

It's from the Weather Channel VHS tape "The Great Storms Collection" in the segment called "Target Tornado".

[Ratlover121]

Now that's very sad.At least that i wasn't born yet!

[nucsol]

Isn't ironic that this tornado killed farmers and five years later came the dirty thirties that were a direct result of our agricultural practices of the day? We were slowly stripping the land bare and the storms had nothing to slow them down. I think this tornado followed an agricultural path that was inadvertantly laid for it. It is hard to speculate but what we do know is that the 1920's spawned the most deadly tornado's to date and then came the dirt bowl of the 1930's that killed thousands.

[deltapunk21]

@nucsol no they were not a direct result of any "agricultutral" practices u fascist fuck nut thats sheer stupid ass proaganda ag was less insigifigant in terms of total land and thr jet stream which was strangely isolated blocked and moisture from hitting the midwest drought ensued and teh ag which did nothing to effect the soil and no dust wasnt kicked up from nop it was sheer lack of rain, ag came back 20X as "worse" but so did the rains hene no more "dust bowl" people dont control weather

[nucsol]

@deltapunk21 You obviously have not done any research into the events of the time and how does this make me a fascist? To save the Mid West a rooting system had to be created and the soil replenished, utube the dirty thirties, the black blizzard, the dustbowl. Get Educated, thousands died as a result, it is a real event that crushed the Mid West and blew our top soil into the Atlantic Ocean.

[swagger93]

@nucsol I very highly doubt humans had any influencing factor on the formation, size and duration of this event. You're right about poor farming practices leading to massive erosion, but the forces responsible for events like this deal with energy levels many, many orders of magnitude greater than any of those man made. See cyclical ocean currents in the pacific, atlantic multidecadal oscillation, Gulf temperatures and so on for much more realistically causative natural forces.

[nucsol]

@swagger93 The scientific study into the Dirty Thirties was conducted by President Roosevelt who beat Hoover in 1933 and was relected four terms in a row serving as President up until his death in I believe 1945? The conclusion was that the stripping of the land and the ellimination of plant rooting structure played a major role in the devostation created by these storms. Entire teams were then sent out to reseed the land with Swamp Grass and other thick rooted forms of plant life. All I know.

[Teigokane]

"The Tri State Tornado killed more people than any other tornado in history" is wrong. "In the US" would be correct. In the 1990s, there was a tornado in Bangladesh which killed about 1200 people.

[whitneyluv96]

@Teigokane in history is true. the worst tornado in history

[Teigokane]

@whitneyluv96 1989 isn't history? Of course, it is.

[PintSizedSlasherJr]

@Teigokane This report was from 1990. before the internet. D8>

[tudssquadbuisness]

It could of been a bowecho. With a combination of a microburst and tornado. It probably would explain the large amount of dust a debris. With a large tornado within it.

[tornadoman14]

Another unique aspect of this tornado is how close it formed to the synoptic low center (see wiki page on the event).

[hurri2002]

@tudssquadbuisness was a tornado. Birmingham tornado likely looked similar. Wall cloud likely on the ground

[tudssquadbuisness]

I have this video too.

[ThePowerWithin34]

Man, If I was in the middle of that field and I saw that tornado coming, I would have had a heart attack.

[frollun2]

i read about this tornado in a childrens book at work.

[aojolaifjoa]

thanks for posting this

[pauldrake2511]

my mother was 10 in griffin indiana when the tristate tornado hit they came out of a r oot celler  and not a board tree or anything standing.

[TheTallMan35]

Can you imagine what the early plains indians must have thought that these storms were? Early Americans actually believed that tornadoes cooked potatoes in the ground. We just had a solid F4 hit here in Mississippi about 50 miles north from my house in the town of Yazoo City. It was a mile wide. Tornado season is officially upon us, and this was just a sample. Run for cover, it's gonna be a rough season!