I had a science teacher named Mr. Johanson (spelling's probably wrong) who was out watching the tornado too. He wasn't in the path, but he got to watch it as it tore up the trailer park and everything. His wife and kids were in the basement, and as he went back inside, he slipped on the tile and fell (he's a BIG man), and his poor wife thought their house got hit.
Great vid! My family wasn't in andover when it hit, but we moved into the new trailer park around 97. Crazy stuff.
We lived at 303 Koob Lane. My husband Bruce Barr and our friend Bill Brannon are walking down the street (at 5:50 minutes) after hearing someone speaking over a loud speaker to see what was going on. They walked down the street saw the tornado then booked it back to tell me and the kids to get downstairs. Thanks for sharing the video.
@IridiumZeke Looks stationary but growing bigger, this is a sure sign that it's headed right at you. Thankfully the man recording it could see that it was coming at him. He knew exactly when it was time to quit filming and to head downstairs himself.
That's amazing. The air is so still and calm around your house which is great because in most tornado vids, it's very windy and you can't hear the actual tornado. Hearing the tornado in this vid is incredible! And if you pay attention to the small trees before the house in the vid, you can tell that the tornado is getting closer because they start to blow around in the wind!
its a good clip and its takes guts to sit and watch a huge ass tornado coming at u.i would prob it too but i would also find shelter after a few min.they move very fast and can change directions which makes them very dangerous.
Loved the footage a full 10/10 for great bravery and a great video, how on earth you got this unbelievable tornado on video is remarkable since it's coming straight towards you. Speaking of which we've even had a tornado come through here at Lowestoft (Wasteland Town) in England (UK) and it was an F1, thankfully there were no fatalities but unbelievable all the same.
it looks like the part where the multi-vortex developed was at about 16 to 20 seconds which is also documented in the McConnell base video (IMHO). I know you stated above it turned into the multi-vortex @ 3 minutes but I believe it happened earlier.
Hello I write from Chile and I'm a fan of tornadoes. I want to ask if this time the tornado destroyed your house??. Greetings from Chile, very good video
Sorry had to comment one more time. Dude you are EPIC for waiting til the last moment! At the end when you see the door open are you going outside to get a better look? And also did it hit your house or come real close?
At the end of the video I am closing the patio door that won't be there 60 seconds later. You can see the aftermath linked in my video responses or go to my channel and look for " Andover Kansas Tornado 1991 Aftermath" under uploads.
5:08 "They said for you to go down stairs". Dude your freggin awesome. I would be doing the same thing until the very last moment. Why not run and hide in the basement and miss one of Gods most beautiful and wicked wonders. Nice video!
I think its wild to look at this storm from all the different locations it was actually filmed. Looks so different, almost like not even the same storm.
Absolutely great footage. I was 14 when I saw footage of this tornado. Me and friends down here in Louisiana was stunned and saddened by what happened at Andover and McConnell AFB.
what a true testemant of Nature's awsome power. You video easily makes top 5 best tornado vids of all time. the Andover in my opinion is the most infamous twister of all time. I dont think I will ever find another video like this in my lifetime. the sound is so incredible. THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS. made me think of some things
@steven85buster I have been studying tornadoes for 25yrs.. IMO, this tornado was stronger than the 5-3-99 event. In fact, on May 3rd the Mulhall tornado was likely even stronger than the Moore tornado. This tornado had the most violent updrafts I have ever seen.
@ProfessorIgor I've heard a lot of people say that they didn't think the Andover tornado was the strongest that day; the Red Rock, OK tornado was only an F4, but it traveled 66 miles and, at that time, had the fastest wind speeds ever measured on earth. It would have likely been an F5 had it encountered any kind of substantial structure.
@LetsDoIt4Johnny1 The strongest tornado discounting the one in 1925(Tri-state tornado) was the Moore, OK tornado of 1999 I thk. They actually recorded the wind at 318mph. Incredible to think of. Imagine a storm the size of a hurricane with winds like that
@LetsDoIt4Johnny1 Awesome, I didn't know that but a weather freak. Love it when they test out the sirens around here. Think the state gov makes em test at 1200pm every 2nd Thurs of the month. Makes me wanna see one bad
@adamjeffreysmith The highest winds ever measured was the Moore tornado. However descriptions of the Jarrell Texas a couple of years earlier included destruction documented which has been unmatched by any other known tornado report. No one really knows beyond a doubt which historicial f5 was the strongest and we probably never will.
@GOODY61 Yeah, the Moore tornado was insane, they said it was 318 mph winds. It was the highest wind ever recorded on Earth. But the Andover tornado was prob more documented, prob cause the Moore you couldn't be a mile away without flying debris. I like the Andover because you can see its transformation at the airforce base. It seems like as soon as it hits the parking lot it explodes into mulftiply vortex. Its really insane. That tornado went 75 or 80 miles!! thats crazy
@ProfessorIgor This had the most awesome transformation at the airforce base. I live in TN and we have our share of tornadoes. We actually have had more tornado deaths than any state or region in the world. TN had 112 deaths between 2000 and 2009 compared to MO next with 73.
@adamjeffreysmith Yea, whenever they hit the tennessee valley it isnt good, becuase they just like to chill in the valley and tear stuff up. Its hard for them to get out of the valley really, and the people that live there really don't think about tornados that much cuz we never see them that much......until latley at least.
@DakotaLynnMartin You know whats strange is TN leads the nation in tornado deaths in the last 10 yrs by 30. But once you cross the MS river the storms are erradic and can move up to 70 mph and TN has a large population.
this truley was one of the most epic tornadoes ever filmed. so many horrific video of this monster that seemed utterly supernatural. other that the f5 that moved through OK in 1999. i havent seen too many other twisters quite like it
***** You have all my respect. First, you were quiet and let the storm make the noise. Second, your calm was better than most storm chasers. It breaks my heart that you faced such devastation with your young family. Did air-raid sirens sound during the storm? Were there TV warnings? What was it that made you stop taping at the moment you did? At the last second, how far away was the funnel? How long from that point did it take before the tornado was over you? How long was it over you?
Excellent video. The whole time I'm thinking this rule of thumb, "If it does not appear to be moving, it is moving toward you." In 2004 I had a little local publication in Louisville that was a compilation of photos from the tornado of 1974 (an EF4 by today's scale) as well as letters and emails of people's experiences of that day. I met people who had lived through Andover, and their stories trumped just about any story in that publication, not to say that the '74 tornado wasn't a nasty one.
I was about 5 years old when this happened. I remember sitting in the basement at my babysitters house. My dad worked at McConnell AFB and watched the whole thing from the other side of the base.
Unbelievable! This has to be one of the best clips ever of a large tornado coming right at someone. Do you know if all of the people that are seen running survived? Also, just curious as to what prompted you to post the video after all of these years? Glad you did. Truly fascinating.
Yes everybody in my neighborhood survived and, as far as I know, nobody was even injured. All the deaths and injuries occured in the trailer park.
I posted the video after I rediscovered the tape while doing some spring cleaning this year. I had to dig out an old VCR and transfer it onto my digital camcorder.
@DadOf4Spartans Thats really awesome video. Gives me chills when I hear you saying you think its dissapating. Amazing as few ppl passed as did considering there were no tornado sirens except for McConnell. Glad you made it thru dude.
This is an epic video Mr. Barragree; this is the first video of this tornado from start to finish I've seen it go through it's multi-vortex stage as it entered through Andover. I'm glad you and your family survived unharmed and you got to share this historic video.
I went through the F5 that wiped my town out on April 3, 1974, Guin, Alabama. One in the great outbreak of 1974. It killed 30 people and like in the video, it completely leveled it. I'm truly sorry this happened. I don't t hink anyone got to make a video of that one. If they have, I've never saw it. There was a cassette recording of the sound made. I've saw very few pics of it. I'm glad you put this video up. Thank you. It's very good.
And the part that sucks is this was a new houseing development to but when going to school in town i can always tell what part was hit and which wasnt because some of the houses are older and in places newer. But it was a bad day for our area my dad had a friend in this town as well, he has some pictures from that days aftermath. But this is Kansas for you and tornado ally its what we have to deal with. I am glad your family made it out ok though.
@PantheraAtrox I promiss its safe and the town looks better then it did before. Its rare for a tornado that size to hit some where but when it does its bad yes. But with newer tech the warning times are increasing and the path can be called out alittle easier then it was that day.
No. I am looking southwest and the trailer park is about 1/4 of a mile east of my location. The homes that are being destroyed at 6:35 were probably just south of HW 54, about 2 miles SW of me.
It is chilling beyond words when you realize as you are watching this that these are the last minutes of the photographer's house, and those of his neighbors. Check out his other video, which shows the horrific aftermath two days later--just wreckage everywhere. All I can say is, I'm so sorry; and I'm very glad you and your family survived!!! Thank you so much for putting this video up!
Great video man! I give you credit for standing there and taping as long as you did. I wouldnt have the guts man! lol Was your house hit by the tornado or did it spare it?
Thanks for posting this! It's something that we all vision in our heads and hope to God we never have to face and here it is from a first hand perspective. Thank God you and your family survived!
Watching this video made my stomach hurt. You can totally sense the tension. What sent chills down my spine was seeing those two people and their reaction when they first saw the tornado at about 6 minutes in.
Wow. Words can't describe! Why were all the warnings coming from police and no tornado sirens? Incredible shots of a truly epic storm. Thanks for posting.
The sirens malfunctioned due to extensive radio traffic from the local dispatches. The quick call tones used to activate the sirens could not get through to the receiver.
Andover not far from the trailer park, but for whatever reason, they couldn't get it to fire up so they had to have the police drive up and down the streets warning people.
@mslesa23 that is because when the city of Andover tried to sound their lone tornado siren it malfunction so the police went through town sounding their own sirens to warn residents. In fact, there is infamous police dash cam footage of the trailer park minutes before tornado slams into it and shows dazed people walking their dogs unaware an F5 is bearing down on them!
Great video, thanks for uploading it. Was that siren that can sometimes be heard in the background the police car that was warning residents of a trailer park to take shelter?
@ColonelAngus75 There's another vid on YouTube showing the police officer warning the trailer park residents, then escaping with only a couple minutes to spare.
They say if you're watching a tornado and it is not moving to one side or the other, then it is coming straight towards you. Great video and quality for its age. 5/5
7:05....OH CAME TIME TO GO....NO WAIT...OK TIME TO GO
MrWolfgang5150 2 hours ago
Sounds like a police siren in the background, but no tornado sirens?
jaycamp7 3 weeks ago
Lololololol stace
PinkShirtz 3 weeks ago
"No, tornadoes don't care about the TV, Stace" LOL
ComfortablyxNumb59 1 month ago
Asome
troyjr11 2 months ago
It's telling of this thing's power that you can hear its roar at 1:50, even though at that point it still is rather far from your location.
Relleq 2 months ago
Great Video!!!!
britainmalbangkok 2 months ago
@iamsaztak good story. i loved it.
armarey12000 3 months ago
Guess 1991 1995 1990 1999 had tornadoes?
armarey12000 3 months ago
This is where Cresant Lakes is now.......
EverGone4 4 months ago
I had a science teacher named Mr. Johanson (spelling's probably wrong) who was out watching the tornado too. He wasn't in the path, but he got to watch it as it tore up the trailer park and everything. His wife and kids were in the basement, and as he went back inside, he slipped on the tile and fell (he's a BIG man), and his poor wife thought their house got hit.
Great vid! My family wasn't in andover when it hit, but we moved into the new trailer park around 97. Crazy stuff.
iamsaztak 7 months ago
when you started recording, was it before, during, or after hitting the AFB
AJTwister97 8 months ago
The exact time, date and year I was born... lovely
HxXFromFirstToLastXx 8 months ago
I don't know about you, but I'm glad you didn't go to that field up the street.
Runningonbrains 9 months ago
We lived at 303 Koob Lane. My husband Bruce Barr and our friend Bill Brannon are walking down the street (at 5:50 minutes) after hearing someone speaking over a loud speaker to see what was going on. They walked down the street saw the tornado then booked it back to tell me and the kids to get downstairs. Thanks for sharing the video.
momblup 10 months ago
@momblup
thanks for posting that info, I always wondered about those 2 guys walking into the frame and then running away.
LHZZ12MM 8 months ago
I've seen a lot of videos, but this one strikes fear in my heart!
Petrasa 10 months ago
i was only around 7 when these tornadoes hit, but i remember that day soo perfectly. was a scary day.
love this video you made! awesome how you waited til the last second to go inside, glad you didn't get injured.
thanks for sharing :D
iamjoshx 10 months ago
Ha, typical Kansans... we run OUTSIDE when the sirens go off!
SpiritualProgressive 10 months ago
I looked at this video by coincidence...and right now it's 6:54 pm CST on April 26...20 years almost to the minute after this was filmed.
Whoa . What a coincidence.
Awesome video!
blossom114 10 months ago
this thing looks like it remains stationary for so long... It just sits in the same spot for like 3+ minutes.... Insane....
IridiumZeke 10 months ago
@IridiumZeke Looks stationary but growing bigger, this is a sure sign that it's headed right at you. Thankfully the man recording it could see that it was coming at him. He knew exactly when it was time to quit filming and to head downstairs himself.
Torn80cj 8 months ago
In another day this will have been 20 years ago. Nice video!
punishedexistence 10 months ago
you do know you cheated death right?
jacoblovesgracy 10 months ago
That's amazing. The air is so still and calm around your house which is great because in most tornado vids, it's very windy and you can't hear the actual tornado. Hearing the tornado in this vid is incredible! And if you pay attention to the small trees before the house in the vid, you can tell that the tornado is getting closer because they start to blow around in the wind!
Awesome stuff! Thanks a lot for sharing! :)
Kanati747 10 months ago
You can tell in his voice that the guy filming is getting annoyed with the woman in the background. Funny stuff
stell29 10 months ago
that's why I live in Idaho....
Brivixxycej8 10 months ago
did the tornado ever hit your house?
TheStormHunter99 11 months ago
its a good clip and its takes guts to sit and watch a huge ass tornado coming at u.i would prob it too but i would also find shelter after a few min.they move very fast and can change directions which makes them very dangerous.
SuperDalton18 11 months ago
If you see a tornado coming at you from 10 miles away. Why not get in your car and drive out of it's path.
Do you really have to stay in your exact location and hope your house holds up
Or it narrowly misses you if you think about it it really does sound absurd
ferrarimike23 11 months ago
I was 2 when this happened
ferrarimike23 11 months ago
your baby girl or boy is now 21 ?
those houses look very newish .
Kansas must be a nerv wracking place in the Spring
indyfan22k 11 months ago
Loved the footage a full 10/10 for great bravery and a great video, how on earth you got this unbelievable tornado on video is remarkable since it's coming straight towards you. Speaking of which we've even had a tornado come through here at Lowestoft (Wasteland Town) in England (UK) and it was an F1, thankfully there were no fatalities but unbelievable all the same.
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dansmoggie 1 year ago
lol the tornadoes don't care about the TV stace... hahahahah :) this video is sick!!!!
DanaLuvsYew8471 1 year ago
it looks like the part where the multi-vortex developed was at about 16 to 20 seconds which is also documented in the McConnell base video (IMHO). I know you stated above it turned into the multi-vortex @ 3 minutes but I believe it happened earlier.
GOODY61 1 year ago
hahahah
crazyspeedskater88 1 year ago
Hello I write from Chile and I'm a fan of tornadoes. I want to ask if this time the tornado destroyed your house??. Greetings from Chile, very good video
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MERCEDESBENI 1 year ago
Guy at 7:00 is EPIC!
alasdairgillis 1 year ago
@alasdairgillis OH S### I'm taking shelter...NO I gotta see it one more time!
VespineVid2 10 months ago
I survived this. 5028 Jade Street, Oaklawn. South Wichita. The video is much better to watch than to be stuck in.
keggersdad 1 year ago
I would have soiled myself.
lefae0451 1 year ago
Sorry had to comment one more time. Dude you are EPIC for waiting til the last moment! At the end when you see the door open are you going outside to get a better look? And also did it hit your house or come real close?
Discokid715 1 year ago
@Discokid715
At the end of the video I am closing the patio door that won't be there 60 seconds later. You can see the aftermath linked in my video responses or go to my channel and look for " Andover Kansas Tornado 1991 Aftermath" under uploads.
DadOf4Spartans 1 year ago
5:08 "They said for you to go down stairs". Dude your freggin awesome. I would be doing the same thing until the very last moment. Why not run and hide in the basement and miss one of Gods most beautiful and wicked wonders. Nice video!
Discokid715 1 year ago
lol tornadoes dont care about the tv stace.. bahahhahaah :) BTW... MOST AMAZING VIDEO EVER.
DanaLuvsYew8471 1 year ago
This is some of the most amazing tornado video I've ever seen. Thank you for posting this!
jkr785 1 year ago
Wow the quality of the videotape is really good for being almost 20 years old!
Luxo62094 1 year ago
I think its wild to look at this storm from all the different locations it was actually filmed. Looks so different, almost like not even the same storm.
adamjeffreysmith 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing, this is incredible.
qbsean10 1 year ago
Absolutely great footage. I was 14 when I saw footage of this tornado. Me and friends down here in Louisiana was stunned and saddened by what happened at Andover and McConnell AFB.
PelicanGuy 1 year ago
Absolutely amazing footage. I can't believe you sat on this tape for nearly two decades. Thank you for sharing.
slapnuts08 1 year ago
U can hear it coming
23fagg 1 year ago
How far away was the tornado from you?
swspartan327 1 year ago
what a true testemant of Nature's awsome power. You video easily makes top 5 best tornado vids of all time. the Andover in my opinion is the most infamous twister of all time. I dont think I will ever find another video like this in my lifetime. the sound is so incredible. THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS. made me think of some things
steven85buster 1 year ago
@steven85buster I have been studying tornadoes for 25yrs.. IMO, this tornado was stronger than the 5-3-99 event. In fact, on May 3rd the Mulhall tornado was likely even stronger than the Moore tornado. This tornado had the most violent updrafts I have ever seen.
ProfessorIgor 1 year ago
@ProfessorIgor I've heard a lot of people say that they didn't think the Andover tornado was the strongest that day; the Red Rock, OK tornado was only an F4, but it traveled 66 miles and, at that time, had the fastest wind speeds ever measured on earth. It would have likely been an F5 had it encountered any kind of substantial structure.
LetsDoIt4Johnny1 1 year ago
@LetsDoIt4Johnny1 The strongest tornado discounting the one in 1925(Tri-state tornado) was the Moore, OK tornado of 1999 I thk. They actually recorded the wind at 318mph. Incredible to think of. Imagine a storm the size of a hurricane with winds like that
adamjeffreysmith 1 year ago
@adamjeffreysmith Yeah. The Red Rock tornado was the fastest speed measured before the Moore-OKC tornado (268 mph I think).
LetsDoIt4Johnny1 1 year ago
@LetsDoIt4Johnny1 Awesome, I didn't know that but a weather freak. Love it when they test out the sirens around here. Think the state gov makes em test at 1200pm every 2nd Thurs of the month. Makes me wanna see one bad
adamjeffreysmith 1 year ago
@adamjeffreysmith The highest winds ever measured was the Moore tornado. However descriptions of the Jarrell Texas a couple of years earlier included destruction documented which has been unmatched by any other known tornado report. No one really knows beyond a doubt which historicial f5 was the strongest and we probably never will.
GOODY61 1 year ago
@GOODY61 Yeah, the Moore tornado was insane, they said it was 318 mph winds. It was the highest wind ever recorded on Earth. But the Andover tornado was prob more documented, prob cause the Moore you couldn't be a mile away without flying debris. I like the Andover because you can see its transformation at the airforce base. It seems like as soon as it hits the parking lot it explodes into mulftiply vortex. Its really insane. That tornado went 75 or 80 miles!! thats crazy
adamjeffreysmith 1 year ago
@ProfessorIgor This had the most awesome transformation at the airforce base. I live in TN and we have our share of tornadoes. We actually have had more tornado deaths than any state or region in the world. TN had 112 deaths between 2000 and 2009 compared to MO next with 73.
adamjeffreysmith 1 year ago
@adamjeffreysmith Yea, whenever they hit the tennessee valley it isnt good, becuase they just like to chill in the valley and tear stuff up. Its hard for them to get out of the valley really, and the people that live there really don't think about tornados that much cuz we never see them that much......until latley at least.
DakotaLynnMartin 1 year ago
@DakotaLynnMartin You know whats strange is TN leads the nation in tornado deaths in the last 10 yrs by 30. But once you cross the MS river the storms are erradic and can move up to 70 mph and TN has a large population.
adamjeffreysmith 1 year ago
this truley was one of the most epic tornadoes ever filmed. so many horrific video of this monster that seemed utterly supernatural. other that the f5 that moved through OK in 1999. i havent seen too many other twisters quite like it
steven85buster 1 year ago
***** You have all my respect. First, you were quiet and let the storm make the noise. Second, your calm was better than most storm chasers. It breaks my heart that you faced such devastation with your young family. Did air-raid sirens sound during the storm? Were there TV warnings? What was it that made you stop taping at the moment you did? At the last second, how far away was the funnel? How long from that point did it take before the tornado was over you? How long was it over you?
USEditor 1 year ago
Excellent video. The whole time I'm thinking this rule of thumb, "If it does not appear to be moving, it is moving toward you." In 2004 I had a little local publication in Louisville that was a compilation of photos from the tornado of 1974 (an EF4 by today's scale) as well as letters and emails of people's experiences of that day. I met people who had lived through Andover, and their stories trumped just about any story in that publication, not to say that the '74 tornado wasn't a nasty one.
jw870206 1 year ago
I was about 5 years old when this happened. I remember sitting in the basement at my babysitters house. My dad worked at McConnell AFB and watched the whole thing from the other side of the base.
IndependentStorm 1 year ago
wow i would have left in 90 degree fashion
EliteAmericans 1 year ago
thanks for sharing, home videos are way better than what the media shows us.
thetruckinlife 1 year ago
OMY GODDDDD!!!! AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL... i want to chase one of those one day.....
DanaLuvsYew8471 1 year ago
Unbelievable! This has to be one of the best clips ever of a large tornado coming right at someone. Do you know if all of the people that are seen running survived? Also, just curious as to what prompted you to post the video after all of these years? Glad you did. Truly fascinating.
Hokomanjello 1 year ago 7
@Hokomanjello
Yes everybody in my neighborhood survived and, as far as I know, nobody was even injured. All the deaths and injuries occured in the trailer park.
I posted the video after I rediscovered the tape while doing some spring cleaning this year. I had to dig out an old VCR and transfer it onto my digital camcorder.
DadOf4Spartans 1 year ago 4
@DadOf4Spartans Thats really awesome video. Gives me chills when I hear you saying you think its dissapating. Amazing as few ppl passed as did considering there were no tornado sirens except for McConnell. Glad you made it thru dude.
adamjeffreysmith 1 year ago
i agree totally. truly epic in every since of the word
steven85buster 1 year ago
Greetings from the Boro,
This is an epic video Mr. Barragree; this is the first video of this tornado from start to finish I've seen it go through it's multi-vortex stage as it entered through Andover. I'm glad you and your family survived unharmed and you got to share this historic video.
BoroChaser 1 year ago
@BoroChaser
Thanks, It was quite an experience.
DadOf4Spartans 1 year ago
I'm surprised you guys are so calm.
zerosoma33 1 year ago
@zerosoma33 Well, there's not really much they could have done lol.
EuphoriaMusicSession 1 year ago
At first I though "Is this sped up" then I saw the guy in the foreground.
Not surprise to hear that some estimated this as having 300 mph winds
dragonridley 1 year ago
I went through the F5 that wiped my town out on April 3, 1974, Guin, Alabama. One in the great outbreak of 1974. It killed 30 people and like in the video, it completely leveled it. I'm truly sorry this happened. I don't t hink anyone got to make a video of that one. If they have, I've never saw it. There was a cassette recording of the sound made. I've saw very few pics of it. I'm glad you put this video up. Thank you. It's very good.
menopausin1 1 year ago
And the part that sucks is this was a new houseing development to but when going to school in town i can always tell what part was hit and which wasnt because some of the houses are older and in places newer. But it was a bad day for our area my dad had a friend in this town as well, he has some pictures from that days aftermath. But this is Kansas for you and tornado ally its what we have to deal with. I am glad your family made it out ok though.
DarkC12ow 1 year ago
I wouldn't move there...........
PantheraAtrox 1 year ago
@PantheraAtrox I promiss its safe and the town looks better then it did before. Its rare for a tornado that size to hit some where but when it does its bad yes. But with newer tech the warning times are increasing and the path can be called out alittle easier then it was that day.
DarkC12ow 1 year ago
Sorry another question. When you tell your wife "It is tearing houses up" is that the Trailer Park that is getting hit?
MistofSolaris 1 year ago
@MistofSolaris
No. I am looking southwest and the trailer park is about 1/4 of a mile east of my location. The homes that are being destroyed at 6:35 were probably just south of HW 54, about 2 miles SW of me.
DadOf4Spartans 1 year ago
It is chilling beyond words when you realize as you are watching this that these are the last minutes of the photographer's house, and those of his neighbors. Check out his other video, which shows the horrific aftermath two days later--just wreckage everywhere. All I can say is, I'm so sorry; and I'm very glad you and your family survived!!! Thank you so much for putting this video up!
IrishRedRose 1 year ago
This tornado looks almost stationary!
Agui007 1 year ago
@Agui007 That's because it's moving right towards them.
broncoj20 1 year ago
tornado siren in town malfunctioned it never went off so the police had to warn residents themselves this tornado was hell on earth
Heyde1979 1 year ago
And...wow. After all those well-known shots of this guy, here's a whole new perspective. Very, very cool and historic.
Noordledoordle 1 year ago
Could you tell me if the tornado was at the EF5 rating when it hit your house? Is the trailer park directly in front of you?
MistofSolaris 1 year ago
@MistofSolaris No EFs in 1991. :p
Noordledoordle 1 year ago
@Noordledoordle the enhanced fujita scale came out a few years ago this tornado was a legite F-5 tornado
Heyde1979 1 year ago
@Noordledoordle
Oopsie that is right *L*
MistofSolaris 1 year ago
OMG look at the debris at 1:27!!!
MistofSolaris 1 year ago
How long was it on the ground?looks like its staying in the same place,
bbbhhgg 1 year ago
Great video, thanks for posting it.
bookworm1960 1 year ago
Great video man! I give you credit for standing there and taping as long as you did. I wouldnt have the guts man! lol Was your house hit by the tornado or did it spare it?
akgbassguitarkid 1 year ago
Would you please contact me? I'd like to do a story about your video. Stan Finger, Wichita Eagle. 268-6437
sfinger555 1 year ago
Fantastic home movie, great job!
sgtmattkind 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this! It's something that we all vision in our heads and hope to God we never have to face and here it is from a first hand perspective. Thank God you and your family survived!
Skyflash37 1 year ago
Watching this video made my stomach hurt. You can totally sense the tension. What sent chills down my spine was seeing those two people and their reaction when they first saw the tornado at about 6 minutes in.
thecompanycar 1 year ago
Wow. Words can't describe! Why were all the warnings coming from police and no tornado sirens? Incredible shots of a truly epic storm. Thanks for posting.
mslesa23 1 year ago
The sirens malfunctioned due to extensive radio traffic from the local dispatches. The quick call tones used to activate the sirens could not get through to the receiver.
CobraKing619 1 year ago
Andover not far from the trailer park, but for whatever reason, they couldn't get it to fire up so they had to have the police drive up and down the streets warning people.
thecompanycar 1 year ago
Sorry, I meant to say Andover had a siren not far from the trailer park.
thecompanycar 1 year ago
@mslesa23 that is because when the city of Andover tried to sound their lone tornado siren it malfunction so the police went through town sounding their own sirens to warn residents. In fact, there is infamous police dash cam footage of the trailer park minutes before tornado slams into it and shows dazed people walking their dogs unaware an F5 is bearing down on them!
brfts2001 1 year ago
Incredible video. Thanks for sharing it. How much time elapsed between the time you turned your camera off and the time the tornado hit?
ReflectionMEXternal 1 year ago
Thanks for posting. I saw this view of the Andover tornado.
danaus 1 year ago
Great video, thanks for uploading it. Was that siren that can sometimes be heard in the background the police car that was warning residents of a trailer park to take shelter?
ColonelAngus75 1 year ago
Yes, the trailer park was about a quarter of a mile east of my location.
DadOf4Spartans 1 year ago
@ColonelAngus75 There's another vid on YouTube showing the police officer warning the trailer park residents, then escaping with only a couple minutes to spare.
MeanGene79 1 year ago
Amazing footage. The motion of this tornado is incredible.
Thanks for posting this.
broncoj20 1 year ago
They say if you're watching a tornado and it is not moving to one side or the other, then it is coming straight towards you. Great video and quality for its age. 5/5
StormChaseChicago 1 year ago
Great job holding your ground so long ! Awesome
nadernut 1 year ago
Wow, this was one of the most awsum video's from a tornado so close i ever seen, its realy incredibble how close it was to your home.
Did your home get hit after you and your family went to the basement?, i realy hope not.
YOur verry brave to keep taping it till the last moment and it gives some great immages from that Tornado..
A 5 star rate and a add to my fav list.Greetings from Holland.
Pieter.
jetnoise1001 1 year ago
Man this is awesome!!
StormChaserNathan 1 year ago
Between 3:00 - 4:00 it's take on a mutliple vortex stage like the Xenia Tornado of 1974
MonogramPictures52 1 year ago 2
Scary how a tornado can change within a short time and distance. I noticed that too.
GeoSwordT301 1 year ago