Now that is some wild footage. If I remember right wasn't the Weather Channel broadcasting live during this storm. They were in the right place at the right time. I think I remember watching the live feed as the finger snaked out of the cloud.
SO at 5:34 folks..that was a nice brick Church. I was there. I'm a Pilot and flew the next day over the path. The Golden Spur looked like tombstones below. Bad. What is not told is this F5 was DEAD ON to the Gas Refinery in El Dorado Kansas. It's unimaginable what the devistation would have been had this thing hit there. I lost friends that day. It's a tuff life living in Kansas at times. We don't talk much on it but yer pretty much alive just because it wasn't time yet. You know it after.
cool voice i was in a tornado warning it was scary i first was in my car driving home with my sis and mom and we ran in the house grabbed the stuff we needed like memories and food and ran in our basement i asked can we bring our cats but mom said they would be fine upstairs but i didnt listen they would blow away with our roof if the tornado hit
Thanks for posting! I've seen the footage of the police officer warning people in the trailer park and always wondered if he made it out of danger himself.
@MeanGene79 He did. He was doing all he could to warn everyone but some of the folks there at the Spur for whatever reason just didn't go to shelter, and some didn't survive it . Lots of times we get numb to warnings. You hear them a lot in Spring. Sometimes the storm is just on top of you and there is no good place to go. I was in the Topeka storm in 1966 too, so that never leaves you. Twice in Life been in this mess. Hope to God never again~!
Wow! With a dramatic stage appearance, this deadly monstrosity first cut off power to the alarm sirens. And if that wasnt enough, fattened itself to F5 - right in front of the residents it intended to kill.
The parking lot footage still remains in the top ten of my all time most jaw dropping tornado viewings. Can anyone give a good estimate of how far away from the door that tornado was?
A former Kansas girl from just up the road (born in Wichita, raised in Rose Hill). Now live in CA, and got a reminder of home earlier today when a tornado warning was issued for Santa Cruz county, a mere 30 miles north of me. Started talking to my co-workers and found this footage of the Andover tornado to show them what a tornado truly looked like. got all those old scared feelings from growing up in tornado alley. Yeesh!
KNSW3 released a VHS tape with a documentary on this. My folks wouldn't buy it but my grandfolks did and I watched it over and over. Was afraid of tornados, still am, the 3 May '99 went right over head of my apartment in Wichita. so that didn't help. But I read and watch all I can on them so I understand what I'm afraid of... Forgot the name of the documentary, wonder if anyone has posted it on Y/T?
@BlueSkyes9112006 well if it went overhead in May of '99, what's there to be afraid of? It's not a tornado unless it's on the ground with a debris cloud...
I don't care if it was F4 or F5 It was effing scary is what it was without a doubt! Was in Wichita when this took place, 14 years old. I remember they had the sirens going off and watching it on TV in the basement and listening to radio coverage. To this day whenever the weather is bad I put the police scanner on and listen to the weather radio and TV and when that shrill siren goes off no mater if it is just a test I stiffen up and want to go for cover. kneejerk reaction. ooo scary.
This is amazing. In Holland we never have tornado's .. never. it must be horrible for y'all to see a tornado destroying everything. I think I'd die if I'd see one in real life. I keep having this dreams about like a 100 tornados chasing me and my family. I keep having this dreams after I checked lots and lots of films of tornados. I should stop, but I can't. It's fascinating.
sorry you dont, but i mean im 13 and i live right here is andover, but this was 3 years before i was born, and ive never actually got to see a tornado except in these videos, and it too is my dream to become a stormchaser, and maybe someday you will get a chance if you ever come to america ^_^
by the looks of the tornado in the police officers camera while he was parked in the reserved spot, he did all he could. I wouldn't be walking with it that close though.
woh... i used to watch all those tornado videos in the 90's when I was like 10. This is why I still want to be a tornado chaser. They didn't add stupid sound effects either.
i would totally be the lady freakin' out in the background at the end, and my friends would be the ones taping it! haha.
I was 4 and in Wichita when that happened, and I still remember it, my parents still talk about being at a bar-b-que where it was still sunny out, and just watching it happen.
He wasn't even in his car at that point, he had left to go to a shelter. He just left his dash-cam running probably figuring that he would capture some incredible, which he did!
I don't think he's getting excited, nor happy about a house getting hit. I think he's just making an observation, as anyone would do under the circumstances. So chill out.
Thanks for the video. Any Andover stuff is a plus.
he wasn't saying for it to Hit another house, he simply said Oh hit another house, hit another house, like " Oh damn, that's not good " hes a storm chaser, he doesn't want it to ruin peoples lives u Douchbag.
There's two schools of thought on whether it should remain classified an EF-4 or whether it should be restored to an F-5. I understand both, since I believe the downgrading had to do with it becoming a multiple-vortex storm and, for its stze in relation to its damage, nothing on the order of Greensburg or Parkersburg, Iowa.
Hear me out. This twister passed 1500 feet from my apartment complex. Scientifically, it's an EF4. In my heart, this will always be an F5. we're both right.
it came with in a 1/2 a mile from my house. i wasnt tring to make it seem like less of a monster tornado than it was its just that i was always told it was a f4. i want ppl to get facts straight on something that was personal to me.
no, the Andover tornado was and will remain an F/EF-5. It was an accurate rating. F5 damage was CLEARLY evident in the surveys that were done by the NSSL. It was an F5 scientifically AND in your heart.
i lived through this tornado. it came with in a 1/2 a mile from my house. im not tring to down play how awsome this tornado was i was just saying that it had a f4 rating im pretty sure. it was the most deadly tornado in Kansas i think still today. atleast 22 ppl died.
I can't remind you enough that this indeed was a F5. The worst tornado is Kansas history was the Udall, Kansas tornado of May 25, 1955 that killed 80. I believe this one ranks sixth although Greensburg may or may not have out ranked it even though it killed less people than the Andover tornado.
Now that is some wild footage. If I remember right wasn't the Weather Channel broadcasting live during this storm. They were in the right place at the right time. I think I remember watching the live feed as the finger snaked out of the cloud.
Rallysquirrel58 3 months ago
isnt the first clip when it was dissipating
AJTwister97 8 months ago
2:47 N0W THEY TURN THEM ON
wwejheaton 9 months ago
@wwejheaton I know, right?! I'm like... "you guys are a liiiittle late with those sirens, ain't ya??"
gameshowluvr86 5 months ago
@wwejheaton I know, right?! I'm like... "you guys are a liittle late with those sirens, ain't ya??"
gameshowluvr86 5 months ago
SO at 5:34 folks..that was a nice brick Church. I was there. I'm a Pilot and flew the next day over the path. The Golden Spur looked like tombstones below. Bad. What is not told is this F5 was DEAD ON to the Gas Refinery in El Dorado Kansas. It's unimaginable what the devistation would have been had this thing hit there. I lost friends that day. It's a tuff life living in Kansas at times. We don't talk much on it but yer pretty much alive just because it wasn't time yet. You know it after.
Buzok5 9 months ago
At 6:45-7:00 mins reminds of the monster that just hit Tuscaloosa just one day over the 20th anniversary of this one. That's eerie.
TheZepmeister 10 months ago
"Tornadoes were likely to be taped by as many as up to 12 cam-corders." WOW!
metalixmillenium15 10 months ago
20 years ago today...
IndependentStorm 10 months ago
cool voice i was in a tornado warning it was scary i first was in my car driving home with my sis and mom and we ran in the house grabbed the stuff we needed like memories and food and ran in our basement i asked can we bring our cats but mom said they would be fine upstairs but i didnt listen they would blow away with our roof if the tornado hit
10bumble21 11 months ago
awesome voiceover dude voice.
what time in the day was it ?
indyfan22k 1 year ago
6:45 Incredible, that is the true definition of the awesome power from a tornado. You can just see the power as it churns. Amazing stuff!
Debo318 1 year ago
my dog farted when he heard the siren.
Puppehland 1 year ago
Andover is a place near were i live and its been there for hundreds of years so don't go bitching on me saying that Andover was in America first!
LJiRaMBo 1 year ago
Somebody lost it.....
vfIskullangel 1 year ago
Thanks for posting! I've seen the footage of the police officer warning people in the trailer park and always wondered if he made it out of danger himself.
MeanGene79 1 year ago
@MeanGene79 He did. He was doing all he could to warn everyone but some of the folks there at the Spur for whatever reason just didn't go to shelter, and some didn't survive it . Lots of times we get numb to warnings. You hear them a lot in Spring. Sometimes the storm is just on top of you and there is no good place to go. I was in the Topeka storm in 1966 too, so that never leaves you. Twice in Life been in this mess. Hope to God never again~!
Buzok5 9 months ago
the title should read the amazing Andover dust devil
thatsMrButtbreath2u 1 year ago
It became multivortex just after it hits that transformer while tearing through the AFB.
Kirke182 1 year ago
love the man arguing with his wife at the end. He wants to film and has no worries- she screams and freaks out!! classic!
bigleague5 1 year ago 2
Wow! With a dramatic stage appearance, this deadly monstrosity first cut off power to the alarm sirens. And if that wasnt enough, fattened itself to F5 - right in front of the residents it intended to kill.
ToySoldier2007 1 year ago
it got quiet at 2:57 probably cause the tornado ripped the siren off you can see it at 3:11 clearly
Alexking99 1 year ago
y does America always steal english town names!
LJiRaMBo 1 year ago
@LJiRaMBo Pssh "Oh Dear" Because they were formerly settled by Englishmen! Who's that asshat now.
rockoownz 1 year ago
@LJiRaMBo because we were English before the revolutionary war
xxcurnuxx 1 year ago
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@LJiRaMBo because we were English before the revolutionary war.
xxcurnuxx 1 year ago
I saw footage from this one that hit McConnell air base.I saw 2 vans about
300ft in the air.Crazy.
thresher4 2 years ago
i was in a tornado once not the coolist experince was lifted right off the ground scary = S
submonbkey 2 years ago
The parking lot footage still remains in the top ten of my all time most jaw dropping tornado viewings. Can anyone give a good estimate of how far away from the door that tornado was?
CombatSportFan 2 years ago
I'm guessing in the range of 100 yards
dragonridley 2 years ago
A former Kansas girl from just up the road (born in Wichita, raised in Rose Hill). Now live in CA, and got a reminder of home earlier today when a tornado warning was issued for Santa Cruz county, a mere 30 miles north of me. Started talking to my co-workers and found this footage of the Andover tornado to show them what a tornado truly looked like. got all those old scared feelings from growing up in tornado alley. Yeesh!
jazgrl98 2 years ago
KNSW3 released a VHS tape with a documentary on this. My folks wouldn't buy it but my grandfolks did and I watched it over and over. Was afraid of tornados, still am, the 3 May '99 went right over head of my apartment in Wichita. so that didn't help. But I read and watch all I can on them so I understand what I'm afraid of... Forgot the name of the documentary, wonder if anyone has posted it on Y/T?
BlueSkyes9112006 2 years ago
@BlueSkyes9112006 well if it went overhead in May of '99, what's there to be afraid of? It's not a tornado unless it's on the ground with a debris cloud...
ksff286 2 years ago
My grandparents had the documentary as well. I believe it was called "The Deadliest Storm" or something like that.
taterchips55 1 year ago
I don't care if it was F4 or F5 It was effing scary is what it was without a doubt! Was in Wichita when this took place, 14 years old. I remember they had the sirens going off and watching it on TV in the basement and listening to radio coverage. To this day whenever the weather is bad I put the police scanner on and listen to the weather radio and TV and when that shrill siren goes off no mater if it is just a test I stiffen up and want to go for cover. kneejerk reaction. ooo scary.
BlueSkyes9112006 2 years ago
Hard to believe it's been almost 20 years.
HereWasNicole 2 years ago
Listen to that Thunderbolt siren crank up at 2:47 Man, I wish they didnt stop making those.
calimar28 2 years ago 7
and the winddown at 3:46 too
d3nv3rm8n 2 years ago
It was defintley a winddown, but no offense. That was an XT22.
DudeDie222 2 years ago
This is amazing. In Holland we never have tornado's .. never. it must be horrible for y'all to see a tornado destroying everything. I think I'd die if I'd see one in real life. I keep having this dreams about like a 100 tornados chasing me and my family. I keep having this dreams after I checked lots and lots of films of tornados. I should stop, but I can't. It's fascinating.
LadyDMJ 2 years ago
Yeah, and this is an F-5 tornado...the strongest kind of monster. It is capable of turning people inside out, so it is to avoided at all costs.
calimar28 2 years ago
sorry you dont, but i mean im 13 and i live right here is andover, but this was 3 years before i was born, and ive never actually got to see a tornado except in these videos, and it too is my dream to become a stormchaser, and maybe someday you will get a chance if you ever come to america ^_^
sakte2emo 2 years ago
by the looks of the tornado in the police officers camera while he was parked in the reserved spot, he did all he could. I wouldn't be walking with it that close though.
TXrakkasan 2 years ago
I was watching this tornado from my roof in Rose Hill. Chilling.
dwnnit77 2 years ago
woh... i used to watch all those tornado videos in the 90's when I was like 10. This is why I still want to be a tornado chaser. They didn't add stupid sound effects either.
mazman3434 2 years ago 3
i would totally be the lady freakin' out in the background at the end, and my friends would be the ones taping it! haha.
I was 4 and in Wichita when that happened, and I still remember it, my parents still talk about being at a bar-b-que where it was still sunny out, and just watching it happen.
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haha wsounited is a faggot that needs to lose some weight
SweetKooshy 2 years ago
WSOunited07 shut your ginger chunky ass up
AirstrikeBoyz 2 years ago 2
i live in andover now and everybody remembers this tornadoe and how it doesn't happen again
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shutup douschebag
SweetKooshy 2 years ago
that is one chill mo' fo' at the end of the video. His poor wife, on the other hand.
clayguy33 2 years ago
i lived through this tornado too lolololololollolol
owenowen 2 years ago
18 years ago today...
F16JetMech 2 years ago
tomorrow I think, actually.
AbBeeGal 2 years ago
Damn, that was massive and moved so fast o_O
jedidude04 2 years ago
2 minutes from getting crushed by an f5. He's got balls!
jovi105 2 years ago
at 6:30...sounds like something my girl would do
steven85buster 2 years ago
at 6:25, wtf was that officer thinking? the tornado was going almost right at him .
or I suppose he went directly to a Shelter?
supertamal2000 2 years ago
He wasn't even in his car at that point, he had left to go to a shelter. He just left his dash-cam running probably figuring that he would capture some incredible, which he did!
cbehr91 2 years ago
When is some going to put up the Weather Channel special "The Enemy Wind"?
no8do2008 3 years ago
i would not like to be in that house.
foonyjr 3 years ago
I don't think he's getting excited, nor happy about a house getting hit. I think he's just making an observation, as anyone would do under the circumstances. So chill out.
Thanks for the video. Any Andover stuff is a plus.
broncoj20 3 years ago 3
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"Hit another house.Hit another house."
You fucking dumbass! That's people's lives your talking about.
FUCKWIT!
Malifatcat 3 years ago
he wasn't saying for it to Hit another house, he simply said Oh hit another house, hit another house, like " Oh damn, that's not good " hes a storm chaser, he doesn't want it to ruin peoples lives u Douchbag.
doknocka 3 years ago 3
Thanks to all those that risked their lives to give us a complete footage of this F-5 tornado.
VonSeeka 3 years ago 12
it was a f4
LateKnight347 3 years ago
There's two schools of thought on whether it should remain classified an EF-4 or whether it should be restored to an F-5. I understand both, since I believe the downgrading had to do with it becoming a multiple-vortex storm and, for its stze in relation to its damage, nothing on the order of Greensburg or Parkersburg, Iowa.
Hear me out. This twister passed 1500 feet from my apartment complex. Scientifically, it's an EF4. In my heart, this will always be an F5. we're both right.
chimayai 3 years ago
it came with in a 1/2 a mile from my house. i wasnt tring to make it seem like less of a monster tornado than it was its just that i was always told it was a f4. i want ppl to get facts straight on something that was personal to me.
LateKnight347 3 years ago
no, the Andover tornado was and will remain an F/EF-5. It was an accurate rating. F5 damage was CLEARLY evident in the surveys that were done by the NSSL. It was an F5 scientifically AND in your heart.
ProfessorIgor 2 years ago
Tornadoes rated in the old F-scale will never be re-rated.
cbehr91 2 years ago
It was definitely a F5.
cbehr91 2 years ago
i lived through this tornado. it came with in a 1/2 a mile from my house. im not tring to down play how awsome this tornado was i was just saying that it had a f4 rating im pretty sure. it was the most deadly tornado in Kansas i think still today. atleast 22 ppl died.
LateKnight347 2 years ago
I can't remind you enough that this indeed was a F5. The worst tornado is Kansas history was the Udall, Kansas tornado of May 25, 1955 that killed 80. I believe this one ranks sixth although Greensburg may or may not have out ranked it even though it killed less people than the Andover tornado.
cbehr91 2 years ago
k maybe im wrong but i was always told it was a f4
LateKnight347 2 years ago
awesome video, thanks for sharing
jerrynsara 3 years ago
Thats one scary tornado
EOTW666 3 years ago 2