Some of the unknown footage (nighttime) may be from Mason City, IA..on this I'm not 100% sure. LOVE these classics thank you VERY much for sharing :-)
I live close to Russiaville, IN, hit by the Palm Sunday outbreak on April11, 1965. Outside of a few still pictures, I don't think any video was ever shot. Same thing with Monticello, IN, from the Super Outbreak, although only a few faint still radar images are available for viewing.
Yes, I know that, too, ever since I looked for a "Parker, Indiana" on a map and found nothing. It's just one of the many factual innacuracies in this video.
Tornadoes are bad. Don't get me wrong. But if I had to choose when to have one, it would be in broad daylight b/c at night, you don't know where the hell it is! It's terrifying!
Well I live in Oklahoma and a couple days ago we had our first tornado for 2010. If we already had a tornado, then I am sure it isn't the last one. I am not ready for tornado season
This video, along with one or two others like it, shaped my childhood and cultivated my love of tornadoes even into young adulthood. I get so nostalgic watching this video on tape, and even now after all these years, my love of old, grainy storm videos has only grown.
Freeze the video at 5:32 and you will see what shows as the hook echo on the radar. You can see how the clouds wrap into the shape of the letter C. The tornado is at the back portion of the dark clouds that show the hook formation clearly. Follow the dark clouds from the top of the screen all the way back to the tornado. You'll will see it with the clear part that is allowing the sunlight in from the left side.
I like how the sun's rays shine through the thunderstorm cloud while the tornado at Hodges, TX is on the ground. This occurs around 8:55 to 9:10 in this part.
The description of tornado formation is inaccurate. A tornado is formed when A mesocyclone tightens, intensifies, and descends, probably as the result of an RFD.
There are unfortunately many inaccuracies in this video, I don't know if it's because the producers didn't do their research or if because of the video's age (it was released in 1993) we did not know as much about tornadoes then as we do now.
Or, was that Scottsbluff? Also, the Xenia, OH tornado date is incorrect. It displays April 21, 1974 when it should have been the same day as the Parker, IN tornado...April 3rd! Other than that, very cool video. Love the large hail, too!
There are many mistakes in this video; the producers of this tape (not I) clearly did not do their research. But you still can't beat all this great footage.
Yes it was. It killed 32 people and injured 1,500. And Xenia tornado was almost rated an F-6! Fujita himself was the one who considered rating it an F-6, but in the end setteled on F-5. Of course no tornado has ever been rated higher than F-5 which is considered as strong as they can get (318 MPH winds).
@calimar28 I have a question. Why can't tornadoes be rated higher than F-5? How can tornadoes not get any stronger than 318 mph? By the way, I hate the new EF scale, in which EF-5s are only 200 mph+.
@Dac719 I believe I can help you here. I was FURIOUS as well, as I was born the year the F-Scale was born. I was reading about Fujita when I was 5 and a TV meteorologist at 25. Anyway, needless to say I didn't like it. It is not to suggest that tornado winds don't reach there levels -- photogrammetry, Howard Bluestein, and Josh with the DOW have all recorded extreme gusts. It is based on the fact that we now know, thanks to engineers, that it takes winds far lower to sweep away a strong house.
This was my first ever tornado video. I bought it when I was just a little kid and watched it nearly every day for a year. Thanks for posting - good memories!
Mine too. My mom first borrowed it from our library when I was four because she knew I was into tornadoes. It took me ten years to find another narrated version.
Ha, no kidding, sounds like me, I too bought it when I was a kid and watched it almost every day (and I still have it). Best tornado video I ever owned!
Some of the unknown footage (nighttime) may be from Mason City, IA..on this I'm not 100% sure. LOVE these classics thank you VERY much for sharing :-)
ChristopherSaindon 6 months ago
2:20 - 2:43 Dallas 100% sure.
ChristopherSaindon 6 months ago
I'm fairly certain the tornado seen between 1:02 and 1:13 is the Fargo, ND tornado of June 20, 1957.
cbehr91 1 year ago
1:02 - 1:13: thats the fargo nd tornado i think
AJTwister97 1 year ago
@AJTwister97 I believe that's Binger, OK from May 1981...check on it though, I could be wrong
sergio9603 1 year ago
@sergio9603 or maybe dallas in 1957
AJTwister97 1 year ago
@AJTwister97 Not sure about that, don't think the Dallas tornado was ever that wide...who knows, but I'm pretty sure it's Binger
sergio9603 1 year ago
@sergio9603 it could of been the wall cloud
AJTwister97 1 year ago
I like the way Neil Armstrong says "SQUeeeeezed"
beyou5 1 year ago 3
4:11
sloanmidwestXTC 1 year ago
the great fickle finger of god me thinks!
bettedavis1 1 year ago
I live close to Russiaville, IN, hit by the Palm Sunday outbreak on April11, 1965. Outside of a few still pictures, I don't think any video was ever shot. Same thing with Monticello, IN, from the Super Outbreak, although only a few faint still radar images are available for viewing.
rollprogramhouston 1 year ago
Actually, Parker, Indiana is known as Parker City. I live about an hour away and can barely remember the Super Outbreak in 1974. I was only five.
rollprogramhouston 1 year ago
Yes, I know that, too, ever since I looked for a "Parker, Indiana" on a map and found nothing. It's just one of the many factual innacuracies in this video.
cbehr91 1 year ago
tornadoes, so scary, so mysterious, yet she is breathtaking.
StraightouttaHouston 1 year ago
Tornadoes are bad. Don't get me wrong. But if I had to choose when to have one, it would be in broad daylight b/c at night, you don't know where the hell it is! It's terrifying!
mizzpink98z24cavi 2 years ago
Well I live in Oklahoma and a couple days ago we had our first tornado for 2010. If we already had a tornado, then I am sure it isn't the last one. I am not ready for tornado season
mizzpink98z24cavi 2 years ago
I remember I had this whole video memorized after it came out when I was in first grade. Watched it every day for a few months.
I feel like lots of people who were kids in the early 90's got introduced to tornadoes due to the Andover tornado/this video.
StormChaserMax 2 years ago
I was one of those kids.
cbehr91 2 years ago
i was one of those kids
watching documentaries made before i was born
xxcurnuxx 2 years ago
This was made after I came along, but I was still pretty young when it came out.
cbehr91 2 years ago
25?
xxcurnuxx 2 years ago
I'm 18, and first saw this when I was four or so.
cbehr91 2 years ago
oh
just like my bro
xxcurnuxx 2 years ago
This video, along with one or two others like it, shaped my childhood and cultivated my love of tornadoes even into young adulthood. I get so nostalgic watching this video on tape, and even now after all these years, my love of old, grainy storm videos has only grown.
91JDub 2 years ago
Freeze the video at 5:32 and you will see what shows as the hook echo on the radar. You can see how the clouds wrap into the shape of the letter C. The tornado is at the back portion of the dark clouds that show the hook formation clearly. Follow the dark clouds from the top of the screen all the way back to the tornado. You'll will see it with the clear part that is allowing the sunlight in from the left side.
Torn80cj 2 years ago
That is one wonky description of atmospheric dynamics!
larkstready 2 years ago
I like how the sun's rays shine through the thunderstorm cloud while the tornado at Hodges, TX is on the ground. This occurs around 8:55 to 9:10 in this part.
Dac719 2 years ago
The description of tornado formation is inaccurate. A tornado is formed when A mesocyclone tightens, intensifies, and descends, probably as the result of an RFD.
dragonridley 2 years ago
There are unfortunately many inaccuracies in this video, I don't know if it's because the producers didn't do their research or if because of the video's age (it was released in 1993) we did not know as much about tornadoes then as we do now.
cbehr91 2 years ago
True, I'm not sure when the RFD factor was discovery though it might have been mentioned in a 1985 documentary.
dragonridley 2 years ago
hailstorm at 333 was in buffalo gap Tx. filmed by my buddy Jim leonard.... not abeline!
MesocycloneEvo 2 years ago
D'oh!
They do however, acknowledge Jim in the credits.
cbehr91 2 years ago
That Dallas twister is GUTWRENCHING
ilovetogofast88 2 years ago
At 2:55 is the best quality Boyd film of the Xenia tornado I've found on the net so far. Very high contrast... and just like I remember it.
longlakeshore 3 years ago
Or, was that Scottsbluff? Also, the Xenia, OH tornado date is incorrect. It displays April 21, 1974 when it should have been the same day as the Parker, IN tornado...April 3rd! Other than that, very cool video. Love the large hail, too!
Dac719 3 years ago
There are many mistakes in this video; the producers of this tape (not I) clearly did not do their research. But you still can't beat all this great footage.
cbehr91 3 years ago
Wasn't the Xenia, OH tornado one of six F5s that day? Why wasn't that mentioned in the narration?
roguegirl29 2 years ago
Yes it was. It killed 32 people and injured 1,500. And Xenia tornado was almost rated an F-6! Fujita himself was the one who considered rating it an F-6, but in the end setteled on F-5. Of course no tornado has ever been rated higher than F-5 which is considered as strong as they can get (318 MPH winds).
calimar28 2 years ago
@calimar28 I have a question. Why can't tornadoes be rated higher than F-5? How can tornadoes not get any stronger than 318 mph? By the way, I hate the new EF scale, in which EF-5s are only 200 mph+.
Dac719 1 year ago
@Dac719 I believe I can help you here. I was FURIOUS as well, as I was born the year the F-Scale was born. I was reading about Fujita when I was 5 and a TV meteorologist at 25. Anyway, needless to say I didn't like it. It is not to suggest that tornado winds don't reach there levels -- photogrammetry, Howard Bluestein, and Josh with the DOW have all recorded extreme gusts. It is based on the fact that we now know, thanks to engineers, that it takes winds far lower to sweep away a strong house.
ChristopherSaindon 6 months ago
The nighttime tornado is scary-looking, the one from Scottsville in June of 1955.
Dac719 3 years ago 3
at 1:11 was that anticyclonic?
nadokid1 3 years ago
No, it was a different view of the Parker tornado.
cbehr91 3 years ago
This was my first ever tornado video. I bought it when I was just a little kid and watched it nearly every day for a year. Thanks for posting - good memories!
CyrusNixes 3 years ago 4
Mine too. My mom first borrowed it from our library when I was four because she knew I was into tornadoes. It took me ten years to find another narrated version.
cbehr91 3 years ago
Ha, no kidding, sounds like me, I too bought it when I was a kid and watched it almost every day (and I still have it). Best tornado video I ever owned!
ilovetogofast88 3 years ago