Tornado Passes Over Camera Probe
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Uploaded by Anticyclonic on Dec 4, 2006
UPDATED INFO: In June of 2003 Tim Samaras made history by deploying a special probe in the path of an approaching tornado in Manchester, South Dakota. He was within only about 100 yards of the twister when he anchored the probe, called Hardened Insitu Tornado PRobe (HITPR), into the ground. It was a direct hit; the quarter-mile wide tornado passed right over it. The probe itself was rigged with seven cameras and caught the action from all angles. Even TOTO (Totable Tornado Observatory), which weighed 500 pounds, was blown to smithereens when chasers attempted to deploy it in the early 80s...the twister didn't even come close to it and it was STILL destroyed. The Dorothy contraption in the movie "Twister" was based on the same concept as TOTO: place it in the twister's path & cross your fingers; censors would be released into the funnel and record valuable data. TOTO sits in some museum, now.
My summary is very basic. If you go to National Geographic's website and type in his name, you can read much more info about him and the probe.
Credit: TIM SAMARAS. I want to make it very clear that HE is the one who gets (and deserves) the credit for this footage. Giving proper credit is very important to me, as a resource for vintage/groundbreaking tornado clips.
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really cool, i wish they used better camera
powerlockit 5 days ago
1:50 Static tornado :o
6Seraph6 5 months ago
camera of chuck norris? lol
SergentSniper 6 months ago
Shame its a isolated rural area where theres nothing to compare the scale with.
Chiofvi79 6 months ago
if you look inside them they seem very bright
436543 7 months ago
Sensors.
Although I do know some censors whom I'd like to see released into a storm like this, too.
EddieHaskelll 8 months ago
I have been looking for this video for the past two years. Awesome video.
faceman68 8 months ago
does it blend ?
Arjetube 8 months ago
Needs some windshield wipers
playon51 8 months ago in playlist Tornado Videos
Its like Ron White says..."Its not THAT the wind is blowing its WHAT the wind is blowing."
HARVEYDANGLER 8 months ago